Corps archeologist leads expedition to recover a Vietnam War-era pilot’s remains
Joe Griffin (right), senior archeologist for the Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District, talks with colleague Stefanie Adams, cultural resources specialist on June 22, in Sacramento, California. Griffin was the sole archeological expert on a recovery team sent by the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) to recover the remains of an American pilot shot down over Laos during the Vietnam War at a decades-old aircraft crash site in the Xiangkhoang Province, Lao People’s Democratic Republic. (U.S. Army photo by Randy Gon/RELEASED)