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U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Meeks, right, and underwater anthropologist Andrew Pietruszka, left, plant a metal stake to mark an excavation grid point during an underwater recovery mission, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam, May 21, 2011. Meeks and Pietruszka are assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Meeks, right, and underwater anthropologist Andrew Pietruszka, left, plant a metal stake to mark an excavation grid point during an underwater recovery mission, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam, May 21, 2011. Meeks and Pietruszka are assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Michael Meeks, right, and underwater anthropologist Andrew Pietruszka, left, plant a metal stake to mark an excavation grid point during an underwater recovery mission, Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam, May 21, 2011. Meeks and Pietruszka are assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.

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