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Article: NCO aids in search for MIA remains.(Round The Reserve)(Noncommissioned Officer engaged in Missing In Action operation)
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- Citizen Airman
- Article date:
- December 1, 2004
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A member of the 939th Air Refueling Wing at Portland International Airport, Ore., put his civilian and military experience to good use in October as a member of a missing in action field recovery team sponsored by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
During his trip to Vietnam, Senior Master Sgt. Richard Duke, 939th Maintenance Operations Flight, and the rest of his teammates attempted to recover MIA evidence from five sites.
"I became involved in Vietnam as a 19-year-old Marine in 1966," Sergeant Duke said, "and became interested in the country then. I've been back a number of times over the years, studying Southeast Asia's early Funan civilization, ...