Military Recovery Missions

Images showcase personnel engaged in recovery operations for missing service members, including excavation, soil screening, and archaeological surveys in various locations.

Robert Godec, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, screens a bucket of soil during a visit to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery mission site in the Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 15, 2024. Screening stations are erected on site to sift through excavated soil by recovery team members and local workers. Air Force

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Eric Lawson, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery noncommissioned officer (NCO), and U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Mitchell Davis, DPAA recovery NCO, remove water from a unit during a recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oct. 3, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Archaeologist Tyler Olsen with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 14, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

Ms. Mindy Simonson, Scientific Recovery Expert and U.S. Marine Cpt. Jon Tamanah, team leader assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) screen dirt at Ulingan, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea on Sep. 29, 2022. The investigation team visited multiple areas across the coastal Madang Province in hopes of recovering missing U.S. service members lost during World War II. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.

Robert Godec, U.S. Ambassador to the Kingdom of Thailand, screens a bucket of soil during a visit to a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery mission site in the Kingdom of Thailand, Feb. 15, 2024. Screening stations are erected on site to sift through excavated soil by recovery team members and local workers. Air Force

U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Joseph Hawley, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician, right, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Elton Reece, team medic, left, perform a metal sweep during a site survey in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), Jan. 12, 2024. They are responsible for using a metal detector to search for possible aircraft wreckage and other metal that can give DPAA personnel a better picture of where incidents may have occurred. Approximately690 unaccounted-for American personnel from World War II are believed to be located within modern-day PRC.

U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer John Leahy, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician, sweeps a unit with a metal detector during a recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Sept. 23, 2022. EOD is responsible for locating any unexploded ordnance that may be found while excavating new dig sites. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

PACIFIC OCEAN (June 22, 2022) Seaman River Wheeler, from Chattanooga, Tennessee, assigned to amphibious assault ship USS Essex (LHD 2), stirs paint in preparation of shipboard preservation aboard Essex, June 22, 2022. Essex is underway conducting routine operations in U.S. 3rd Fleet.

To drain away excess water an Air Force member digs a trench between tents after a hard rain through the night caused flooding at a deployed location in support of Operation ENDURING FREEDOM. In response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001 at the New York World Trade Center and the Pentagon, President George W. Bush initiated Operation ENDURING FREEDOM in support of the Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), fighting terrorism abroad. Subject Operation/Series: ENDURING FREEDOM Country: Unknown Scene Major Command Shown: 28th AEW

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U.S. Navy Petty Officer First Class Griffin Nosenzo, an explosive ordnance disposal technician assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), disconnects a ratchet strap during an underwater recovery mission in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Oct. 03, 2022. DPAA personnel conducted an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

U.S. Marine Staff Sgt. Nathanael Douglas, an explosive ordnance disposal technician with EOD Detachment, Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, takes a sample swab of explosive residue during a Large Vehicle Borne Improvised Explosive Device Post-Blast Analysis course at Range 800 on Camp Pendleton, California, Jan. 26, 2022. The course focuses on collecting attack-related material such as munition fragments, projectiles, casualty information and explosive residue following a VBIED attack. Through post-blast analysis, EOD Marines can provide intelligence sections with the information needed to assess how an explosive threat was manufactured. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Andrew Cortez)

Tech. Sgt. Ira Chaney, 433rd Airlift Wing religious affairs Airman, climbs over a log in an obstacle course during a combat dining-in event at Joint Base San Antonio-Chapman Training Annex, Texas, Sept. 10, 2022. The obstacle course included low crawls, rope crawls, log jumps and wall crawls.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Levi Bartels, a rifleman with Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, picks weeds during a visit to the Howard Peters Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens for Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Sept. 12, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that provides the opportunity for the U.S. sea services from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard to engage with each other and civilians. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.

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The Soldiers of the 76th Infantry Brigade Combat Team (IBCT), along with Soldiers from Albania, Armenia and Moldova and Active Duty Soldiers from Hohenfels, Germany, participated in Operation Bronze Shield, which was to simulate a disturbance turned riot, at the Joint Multinational Readiness Center, in Hohenfels, Germany, on October 17, 2022. The 76th IBCT, Task Force Nighthawk, is preparing for their rotation in Kosovo as part of KFOR 31. (U.S. Army photos by Staff Sgt. Anna Pongo, 111th Public Affairs Detachment, Nebraska National Guard)

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Archaeologist William Thompson with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 22, 2022. Thompson has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

Arakaki Yuki, a U.S. Forces Japan security enforcement guard, opens a gate for participants in a tsunami evacuation drill during Exercise Constant Vigilance 2022 on Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan, Oct. 18, 2022. The annual drill was held to convey the readiness and capabilities of various installations and first responders in the event of an emergency. CV22 is a Force Protection Condition and crisis response evaluation to validate regional installations, camps, and tenant antiterrorism plans and policies.

221028-N-LY580-1003 ALEXANDER CITY, Ala. (Oct. 28, 2022) Benjamin Russell High School Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps Cadets, left-right, Elijah Wilkins, Trevor Weaver, Natalie Brown and Brennen Luke use shuttle boards to go from station to station during training exercises.

Papua New Guinea, Morobe Province. American airplane crash site.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ashley Carrillo Torres, an administration specialist with Marine Corps Security Force Regiment, assists with vegetation management at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 8, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that provides the opportunity for the U.S. sea services from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard to engage with each other and civilians. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.

220625-N-YQ181-1045 AGANA, Guam (June 25, 2022) Lt. Aaron Russo, left, from Virginia Beach, Virginia, and Lt. j.g. Joseph Rega, from Allentown, Pennsylvania, assigned to the U.S. Navys only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76), prepare a garden bed at Island Girl Power, a community outreach program designed to aid young girls from at risk communities in Guam, during a community service event. Ronald Reagan, the flagship of Carrier Strike Group 5, provides a combat-ready force that protects and defends the United States, and supports alliances, partnerships and collective maritime interests in the Indo-Pacific region.

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Lt. Col. Brian Bosse, SRT-1 Operations Chief at Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's Indo-Pacific Directorate and Ms. Kelley Esh, SRT-1 Indo-Pacific Directorate Chief of Research, use tools to expose subsurface metal contacts in Ulingan village, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea on Oct. 6, 2022. DPAA leadership visited the Investigation Team (IT) in order to see first hand the unique dynamics of an IT and strengthen future operations. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.

U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Demetrius Poe (center), aerospace ground equipment craftsman assigned to the 36th Contingency Response Squadron instructs U.S. Navy personnel assigned to the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 during a joint field training exercise at Andersen Air Force Base, Guam, May, 2, 2022. The purpose of this exercise was to test the HSC community ability to operate from an Expeditionary Advance Base. The main focus was to look at maintenance practices and how to facilitate them away from a established air field and planning operations with limited communications. Throughout the four day exercise, HSC 25 flew 30 hours and 10 sorties conducting a wide variety of missions to include weapons employment, helocasting of personnel and systems, and combat search and rescue missions.

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In celebration of the 61st Anniversary of 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne), Soldiers and their families participated in a family leisure obstacle course during Reunion Week at Fort Campbell, Ky. on Sept. 24, 2022.

U.S. Sailors with the USS Carter Hall (LSD 50) visit the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore to assist with vegetation management during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 8, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that provides the opportunity for the U.S. sea services from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard to engage with each other and civilians. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.

POW/MIA Accounting Agency members, as well as volunteers from bases in England, sift through dirt near London-Stansted, England, May 25, 2022. The team was conducting a recovery operation for the remains of a U.S. service member whose plane crashed there in 1944 during World War II.

Work completed by Soldiers with the Army Reserve's 389th Engineer Company of Des Moines, Iowa, at a troop project are shown June 21, 2022, at Camp Courage on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. The company worked on several projects to improve the camp during their 2022 annual training, including putting new metal siding on numerous buildings. Troop projects are coordinated by the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works and help improve the installation's infrastructure while at the same time providing training for Army engineer units.

Greg Stratton, a senior research expert assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), screens dirt as part of an underwater recovery mission in Wewak, Papua New Guinea on Sept. 06, 2022. DPAA personnel arrived to conduct an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and the nation.

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - General - 26-HK-134-21. Hurricane Katrina

A participant with the Joint Civilian Orientation Conference (JCOC) extends his rope out in preparation for the repel tower at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Oct. 28, 2022. JCOC increases public understanding of national defense by enabling American business and community leaders to directly observe and engage with the U.S. military.

Alaska Army National Guard Spc. Jakobe Horne, right, an information technologist specialist with Headquarters and Headquarters Company,1st Battalion, 207th Aviation Regiment from Anchorage, plays with a local child while taking a break from assisting with property damage as part of Operation Merbok Response in Toksook Bay, Alaska, Sept. 24, 2022. More than 130 members of the Alaska Organized Militia, which includes members of the Alaska National Guard, Alaska State Defense Force and Alaska Naval Militia, were activated following a disaster declaration issued Sept. 17 after the remnants of Typhoon Merbok caused dramatic flooding across more than 1,000 miles of Alaskan coastline. (Alaska National Guard photo by 1st Lt. Balinda O'Neal)

Bundle of muzzle-loading flintlock rifles

Approximately 40 Idaho Citizen-Solders are now equipped with the knowledge and training to fight wildland fires, as the Idaho National Guard hosted its first wildland firefighting training course at Gowen Field, Idaho, June 15-19 and June 22-26, 2020. Although Gowen Field and the Orchard Combat Training Center fire departments have qualified wildland firefighters, this is the first time the five-day courses have been offered to non-firefighter Guardsmen, enabling them the opportunity to earn an Incident Qualification Card, commonly known as a Red Card certification.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Ly Sebastian, a Marine Air-Ground Task Force planning specialist with Plans, Policies & Operations South, assists with vegetation management at the Maryland Zoo in Baltimore during Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore, Maryland, Sept. 8, 2022. Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore is an annual public event that provides the opportunity for the U.S. sea services from the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy and U.S. Coast Guard to engage with each other and civilians. More than 2,300 service members participated in Maryland Fleet Week & Flyover Baltimore 2022 engaging and assisting with ship tours, live bands and static equipment displays.

U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Glenn Ward, an administrative specialist with Fleet Marine Force, Atlantic, Marine Forces Command, Marine Forces Northern Command, Headquarters and Service Battalion, fills a bucket with water at Woodlawn Funeral Home and Memorial Garden, VA, Oct. 26, 2022. Marines and civilian volunteers participated in a Single Marine Program event to give back to the community and restore the plaques of fallen veterans. With more than 75 acres of rolling green lawns, Woodlawn provides families with a permanent and peaceful final resting place.

U.S. Army Sgt. Harley Miller, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) mortuary affairs noncommissioned officer, screens soil during a recovery mission in Lao Peoples Democratic Republic, Oct. 3, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

A Fort McCoy archaeology team member with the Colorado State Universitys (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands who works in partnership with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch (NRB) looks for artifacts during an archaeological survey July 14, 2022, on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. For several weeks in July, Fort McCoy archaeological team members with NRB and CSU held a special archaeological survey and dig on South Post. The team did their survey in the South Post Housing Area, which also happens to be the oldest areas of the installations origins where Camp Robinson and Camp Emery-Upton once were located. In the actual location of the survey, however, the team was looking at areas around old concrete tent pads that were once part of Camp Robinson.

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U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jacqueline Risley, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal technician,carries buckets during a DPAA recovery mission in England, April 27, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

U.S. Air Force Maj. Richard King, a member of the 17th Force Support Squadrons Spicy Mustard team, escapes the confined space simulator during the annual Fire Muster Challenge at Goodfellow Air Force Base, Texas, Oct. 14, 2022. The confined space simulator mimicked tight spaces firefighters might find themselves dealing during hazardous entries.

From left, U.S. Army Lt. Col. Sean Ontiveros, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), expeditionary support director, is given a brief by U.S. Army Capt. William Ryan, a DPAA recovery team leader during a mission Quang Binh Province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, March 30, 2023. There are currently 1,581 missing Americans from the Vietnam War.

Archaeologist William Thompson with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 22, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

NEW ORLEANS (Apr. 21, 2022) U.S. Navy Sailors attached to guided-missile destroyer USS Farragut (DDG 99) and Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen (DDG 82) plant trees in Lafitte Greenway to support the community during Navy Week New Orleans. Navy Weeks are designed to show Americans the investment they have made in their Navy and increase the awareness of the Navys role and purpose in our national defense.

120308-N-JH293-042POLARIS POINT, Guam (March 8, 2012) Navy Diver 2nd Class Mitch Baker has his mask cleaned before performing underwater maintenance on the submarine tender USS Emory S. Land (AS 39). Emory S. Land is on an extended deployment in Guam to temporarily relieve USS Frank Cable (AS 40) as the primary afloat maintenance activity in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility.

Archaeology team members with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch work on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 22, 2022. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands (Nov. 10, 2022) Builder 2nd Class Stephen Tritsch, and Equipment Operator 3rd Class Francisco Ramirez, with Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) FOUR, secures cement board to the Richardson Multipurpose Facility on U.S. Army Garrison - Kwajalein Atoll. NMCB-4 is forward deployed throughout the Indo-Pacific region and United States territories to support and maintain a free and open Indo-Pacific. As the stand-in, crisis response, naval engineering force, NMCB-4 maintains a ready posture to deliver in-theater expeditionary logistics via expeditionary shore infrastructure, forward damage repair, and mobile construction.

U.S. Navy Senior Chief Petty Officer Joseph Hawley, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) technician, left, and Chief Hospital Corpsman Elton Reece, team medic, right, perform a metal sweep during a site survey in the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), Jan. 13, 2024. They are responsible for using a metal detector to search for possible aircraft wreckage and other metal that can give DPAA personnel a better picture of where incidents may have occurred. Approximately690 unaccounted-for American personnel from World War II are believed to be located within modern-day PRC.

GROTON, Conn. (April 17, 2013) Members of team 'No Days Off' from Naval Branch Health Clinic Groton carry a 180-pound simulated man through an obstacle course during the 2013 Corpsman Challenge at Naval Submarine Base New London.

A Fort McCoy archaeology team member with the Colorado State Universitys (CSU) Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands who works in partnership with the Fort McCoy Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch (NRB) looks for artifacts during an archaeological survey July 14, 2022, on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis. For several weeks in July, Fort McCoy archaeological team members with NRB and CSU held a special archaeological survey and dig on South Post. The team did their survey in the South Post Housing Area, which also happens to be the oldest areas of the installations origins where Camp Robinson and Camp Emery-Upton once were located. In the actual location of the survey, however, the team was looking at areas around old concrete tent pads that were once part of Camp Robinson.

Archaeologist Tyler Olsen with Colorado State Universitys Center for Environmental Management of Military Lands working in partnership with Fort McCoy's Directorate of Public Works Environmental Division Natural Resources Branch works on an archaeology survey on South Post at Fort McCoy, Wis., on July 14, 2022. Olsen has participated in many digs at Fort McCoy. This survey is looking at areas were cement pads were located where troops placed military tents and bivouacked nearly 90 years ago. Archaeology work has been ongoing on Fort McCoy for decades to not only look back and document the post's military history, but also the area's distant past where artifacts thousands of years old have been found.

A member of NASA Kennedy Space Center's Emergency Response Team works his way along a rope above water during one of the tactical challenges at the 35th Annual SWAT Round-up International at the Lawson Lamar Firearms and Tactical Training Center in Orlando, Florida. The competition was held Nov. 10 to 15, 2019, and featured five different tactical challenges. Kennedy's ERT members exchanged best practices and competed with more than 50 teams from the U.S. and around the world.

Staff Sgt. Abdiel Colon, a water treatment specialist, deconstructs the Tactical Water Purification System (TWPS)

Nicole Rhoton, historian at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), attempts to clean a piece of aircraft wreckage to find serial numbers to correlate the site for a future recovery team during an investigation mission at Ulingan, Bogia District, Madang Province, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 28, 2022. The investigation team visited multiple areas across the coastal Madang Province in hopes of recovering missing U.S. service members lost during World War II. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

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Airmen assigned to the 325th Fighter Wing work with Air Force Entertainment staff to set up a concert stage at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, Oct. 12, 2022. Volunteers from across Team Tyndall came together to help construct the 180-foot stage.

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Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-133-107. Hurricane Katrina

HONIARA, Solomon Islands (Sept. 1, 2022) - U.S. Navy Sailors participate in a beach clean-up during a community outreach event at Rove Childrens Park during Pacific Partnership 2022. Now in its 17th year, Pacific Partnership is the largest annual multinational humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparedness mission conducted in the Indo-Pacific. Pacific Partnership is a unifying mission that fosters enduring friendships and cooperation among many nations. The years mission in Solomon Islands will include participants from the United States, Japan and Australia.

U.S. Army Cpl. Adrian Pacheco, assigned to 55th Signal Company (Combat Camera), conducts an equipment check before participating in a night marksmanship range at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, June 21, 2022. Combat Camera soldiers regularly train at night to maintain high levels of technical and tactical readiness in order to support missions worldwide.

Competitors at Fort Polk's annual Mud Run, Sept. 24, tackled the last obstacle with the finish line in sight.

Greg Stratton, a senior research expert assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), right, speaks to Joe Zadrozny, the Charge D Affaires, a.i., to Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu, during an underwater recovery mission in Wewak, Papua New Guinea, Sept. 22, 2022. DPAA personnel conducted an underwater excavation operation in an effort to find a U.S. aircraft crew lost over Papua New Guinea during World War II. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

Joint Task Force-Bravo service members help lead a cow April 20, 2022, in Cane, Honduras. Animal care specialists, civil affairs team members and volunteers from the Medical Element at JTF-Bravo vaccinated more than 500 cattle in three days for local farmers, ensuring the fatality rate of the herd is decreased from around 50% to 15%. The vaccinations provided through this partnership with the Ministry of Agriculture in Honduras and Soto Cano Air Base creates a better quality of life for the cattle as well as food stability for the community.

Blacksmith at a civil war reenactment near Boise, Idaho.

Staff Sgt. Griffin Mueller, a demonstration parachutist with the U.S. Army Parachute Team, secures a flag to his parachute prior to the Red River Thunder Open House and Airshow on Altus Air Force Base, Okla. Oct. 1, 2022. During the airshow, the team conducted a parachute demonstration to connect the Army with the American public and enhance the Armys recruiting efforts.

A member of the 4100th Operation Support Group puts charcoal lighter fluid on a grill to prepare food for the Air Force's Armed Forces Day celebration. Subject Operation/Series: JOINT ENDEAVOR Base: Tuzla Air Base Country: Bosnia And/I Herzegovina (BIH)

Puerto Rico National Guard Citizen-Soldiers along with the South Dakota National Guard distribute potable water to residents of Naranjito, Oct. 11. The National Guard team work with two water tanks Hippos” with a capacity of 2,000 gallons of potable water.

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MANGALIA, Romania (Aug. 15, 2022) Utilitiesman 2nd Class Ayelech Bushnell, assigned to Naval Mobile Construction Battalion (NMCB) 11, securing a pre-existing bench to prevent wobbling, Romania, Aug. 15, 2022. NMCB 11 is forward deployed to execute construction, humanitarian assistance, and theater security cooperation in the U.S. Sixth and Seventh Fleet areas of operation.

Mexico's southern border has recently been plagued by extremely violent crime from Mara Salvatrucha gang members, ffleeing anti-gang crachdowns in El Salvador and Honduras.

U.S. Soldiers with Company A, 10th Brigade Engineer Battalion, 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division work together as a team to conquer an obstacle at the Leaders Reaction Course at the 7th Army Training Commands Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, May 24, 2022. 1st Armored Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division is part of the 1st Infantry Division and V Corps, America's Forward Deployed Corps in Europe that works alongside NATO Allies and regional security partners to provide combat ready forces, executes joint and multinational training exercises, and retains command and control for its rotational and assigned units in the European Theater.

Alex Keil, a contractor in support of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit, installs a camera into a VBAT unmanned aerial surveillance drone during Realistic Urban Training exercise at San Clemente Island, California, June 15, 2022. The purpose of RUT is to enhance the integration and collective capability of the MEUs command, air, ground, and logistics elements and prepare the 13th MEU to meet the nations crisis response needs during their upcoming overseas deployment.

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Air National Guard members from the 219th Security Forces squadron perform an exercise where they must reclaim a launch facility from opposing forces at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Aug. 10, 2022. Exercises like this allow guard members to keep well trained in case they are called upon for a real reaction.

220924-N-WF272-1014 DUNDALK, Md. (Sept. 24, 2022) Navy Counselor Fletcher Eccles, a Whiteland, Ind., native assigned to Navy Talent Acquisition Group Philadelphia who was selected to advance to the rank of chief petty officer, collects waste during a Bear Creek Park cleanup and beautification project in Dundalk, Maryland. NTAG Philadelphia encompasses regions of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland and West Virginia, providing recruiting services from more than 30 talent acquisition sites with the overall goal of attracting the highest quality candidates to ensure the ongoing success of Americas Navy.

Members of the 5th Logistics Readiness Squadron place the final flag of the ceremony at Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota, Sept. 1, 2022. Volunteers from Team Minot helped place 329 flags to represent each member of the Department of Defense who was lost to suicide last year.

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U.S. Marine Corps veteran Sgt. Mike Ayers, owner of Mountain Mike's Whetstone Woodworks, air sprays a wood sculpture prior to the Bank of America Roval 400 NASCAR Cup Series race at the Charlotte Motor Speedway, Concord, North Carolina, Oct. 9, 2022. Ayers, a native of Chesapeake, Virginia, served in the Marine Corps from 1998 to 2002. The Marines of 6th Marine Corps District showed support for the NASCAR event with the pull up challenge, the enhanced marketing vehicle, and The Battle Position.

Sergio Matias Chontal-Harter participates in a simulated Army Combat Fitness Test with Fort McCoy Garrison Commander Col. Stephen Messenger on Feb. 12, 2024, at Fort McCoy, Wis. Matias, 6, interviewed Messenger as part of a school social studies project. Matias is the son of a Fort McCoy employee, and he also experienced what it's like to participate in the Army Combat Fitness Test and how to participate in retreat at the end of the duty day. Army

Marine Safety Unit Baton Rouge - New Orleans Flood Operations - Personnel - 26-HK-379-102. Hurricane Katrina

221006-N-AS200-1405 SAN NICOLAS ISLAND, Calif. (NNS) (Oct. 5, 2022) - The U.S. Navy conducted an annual coastal cleanup on the remote beaches of San Nicolas Island (SNI), the most isolated of the California Channel Islands, located sixty-five miles offshore, and South of Naval Base Ventura County (NBVC) Point Mugu. The cleanup team consisted of nearly fifty volunteer Navy Sailors and civilians assigned to NBVC and Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, who removed over two-thousand pounds of trash and debris on three SNI beaches. NBVC is a strategically located Naval installation composed of three operating facilities: Point Mugu, Port Hueneme and San Nicolas Island. NBVC is the home of the Pacific Seabees, West Coast E-2D Hawkeyes, 3 warfare centers and 80 tenants.

Canada,Ontario,Fort Erie, Old Fort Erie,reenactment of War of 1812

U.S. Air Force Airman 1st Class Jovan Garcia, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) augmentee, fills a bucket with dirt during a DPAA recovery mission in England, April 11, 2022. DPAAs mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation.

220706-N-KK081-1090 PEARL HARBOR (July 6, 2022) - U.S. Navy divers, assigned to Mobile Diving Salvage Unit 1, train with Mexican Navy divers during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, four submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The worlds largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the worlds oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

Scientists and engineers with Argonne National Laboratory and Naval Undersea Warfare Center analyze ATOMICA technology during a joint explosive ordnance disposal exercise at Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Sept. 23, 2022. EOD technicians around the joint force conducted a week long joint-service level exercise where service members cohesively integrated, trained, and competed with one another while utilizing experimental technology. The training demonstrated progress in the U.S. Marine Corps Force Design 2030 efforts.

Aircrew assigned to the 180th Airlift Squadron, Missouri Air National Guard, conduct Survival, Evasion, Resistance and Escape training at Rosecrans Air National Guard Base, St. Joseph, Missouri, June 6, 2021. The training was conducted by U.S. Air Force Master Sgt. Jesse Ost from the 125th Fighter Wing, Florida Air National Guard.

Over the past two months Lyster Army Health Clinic (LAHC) employees have had an opportunity to practice basic firefighting skills using a fire extinguisher to extinguish a small fire. This hands-on training allowed employees to physically employ the PASS method and refine their skills. With the assistance of the Fort Rucker Fire Department, the training taught employees how to choose the right fire extinguisher for a fire and how to use a fire extinguisher properly.

SAN DIEGO (July 20, 2022) Multinational partners attend a briefing on radiological equipment during a mine exploitation exercise during Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022. Twenty-six nations, 38 ships, three submarines, more than 170 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in RIMPAC from June 29 to Aug. 4 in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California. The worlds largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity while fostering and sustaining cooperative relationships among participants critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the worlds oceans. RIMPAC 2022 is the 28th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

Confederate solder at Civil war reenactment near Boise, Idaho.

220808-N-ML137-2020 KEKAHA, HI (Aug. 8, 2022) Hull Maintenance Technician 2nd Class Kenneth Black, left, and Electronics Technician 2nd Class Jordan Halvorsen grill hot dogs during a command picnic at Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands. PMRF is the worlds largest instrumented multi-environment range capable of supporting surface, subsurface, air and space operations simultaneously.

NAPLES, ITALY -- Religious Specialist 3rd Class Kaio Fong attempts to dunk Rear Adm. Brad Collins, commander, Navy Region Europe, Africa, Central (EURAFCENT) at the command picnic, Oct. 6, 2022. Navy Region EURAFCENT oversees nine installations in seven countries, enabling U.S., allied and partner nation forces to be where they are needed, when they are needed, in order to ensure security and stability in the European, African, and Central Command areas of responsibility.

Participants in a Community Leader Engagement stop at a training area May 24, 2022, at Fort McCoy, Wis. More than a dozen community leaders and local law enforcement professionals from Tomah, Sparta, Monroe County, and other nearby municipalities gathered at Fort McCoy to see the posts mission first-hand. During their visit, the community leaders received a driving tour of the installation and made stops at the Combined Arms Collective Training Facility on South Post, training areas on North Post, the Commemorative Area, Garrison Headquarters, and McCoys Community Center where they received a lunch.

Marine Safety Unit - 26-HK-132-95. Hurricane Katrina

Hunter with its rifle in the woods during autumn

San Marcos, TX Urban Search and Rescue team, Texas Task Force 2 members continue to search the banks of the Blanco River to look for missing residents. Extensive flooding impacted the area, resulting in a Presidentially declared disaster. Jocelyn. <p>San Marcos, TX -- Urban Search and Rescue team, Texas Task Force 2 members continue to search the banks of the Blanco River to look for missing residents. Extensive flooding impacted the area, resulting in a Presidentially declared disaster.. Photographs Relating to Disasters and Emergency Management Programs, Activities, and Officials

040618-F-6335P-047. Complete Scene Caption: US Air Force (USAF) members from the 820th RED HORSE (Rapid Engineer Deployable Heavy Operational Repair Squadron Engineers) Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base (AFB), Nevada (NV), construct a wall underneath an old dormitory converted into a recreation room in Camp Stephenson, Timerhri, Guyana (GUY), during Exercise NEW HORIZONS 2004-Guyana. NEW HORIZONS 2004-Guyana is a joint service training exercise held in Guyana, South America co-sponsored by both the US Southern Command (USSOUTHCOM) in Miami, Florida (FL), and the Guyana Defense Force (GDF). During this four-month exercise, a combined team of GDF and US military personnel will be engaged in construction projects and medical training activities that directly benefit the local community. The exercise will include up to three construction projects and two Medical Readiness Training Exercises (MEDRETE). Base: Camp Stephenson, Timehri Country: French Guiana (GUF)

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