DPAA Conducts Repatriation Ceremony in Laos

Members of 26-2LA Recovery Team for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency load a casket into a vehicle during a repatriation ceremony in Laos, Feb. 23, 2026. The ceremony marked the end of a recovery mission supporting identification efforts of missing service members in Laos. The possible remains are being sent to the DPAA laboratory on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii for further scientific analysis and possible identification. There are more than 280 personnel missing in Laos from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Dallin Wrye)

Date

2026-02-22

Photographer / author

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

Archive

Wikimedia Commons

Type

photograph

Original size

5,198 × 3,713 pixels

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