JPAC Teams Return With Remains:

Dec. 4, 2006

Five Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command recovery teams and one investigation team have returned to their home base in Hawaii from trips to Laos and Cambodia, bringing back remains possibly of more Americans missing from the Vietnam War. The Laos trip marked the 96th joint field recovery conducted in that country, while the Cambodia effort was the 36th in that country.

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