DPAA 26-2 LA Recovery Team 1 Begins Work in Laos

Blake Ayala, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency scientific recovery expert, uses a real-time kinetic global navigation satellite system receiver to map an area during a recovery mission in Laos, Jan. 21, 2026. The receivers can be used to map out recovery sites, and pinpoint where evidence and other information is found. There are more than 280 personnel missing in Laos from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dallin Wrye)

Date

2026-01-20

Photographer / author

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dallin Wrye

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

4,881 × 3,486 pixels

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