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U.S. service members empty a suction hose of sediment into a screen during an underwater recovery mission in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam, May 20, 2011. The service members, assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, are deployed off the north central coast of Vietnam to search for the remains of Americans missing from the Vietnam War.

RECOVERY MISSION

U.S. service members empty a suction hose of sediment into a screen during an underwater recovery mission in Thua Thien Hue, Vietnam, May 20, 2011. The service members, assigned to the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command and Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit 1, are deployed off the north central coast of Vietnam to search for the remains of Americans missing from the Vietnam War.

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