1990 through 1993 --- I was assigned as a Search and Recovery Team Leader with the U.S. Army Central Identification Laboratory, Hawaii with the mission to search for and recover the remains of the killed in action-body not recovered (KIA-BNR) mostly from the Vietnam War and WW2. Otherwise known as the POW/MIA Mission. In 1992 I lead a Search and Recovery Operation in Cambodia to recover 5 journalists from NBC and CBS who were captured and killed by the Viet Cong on 21 May 1970. NBC: Yoshiniko Waku (Japanese), Welles Hangen (American), and Roger Colne (French). CBS: Tomoharu Ishii (Japanese) and Kojiro Sakai (Japanese). Their loss in 1970 and our recovery operation 22 years later are detailed in the book A Cambodian Odyssey: And the Deaths of 25 Journalists by Kurt Volkert and T. Jeff Williams. That operation was a nightmare. Normally we just slogged on doing our work with few Americans knowing we were out there recovery our war dead. This one was different. Much press interest, so much pressure from HQ. You know, that three thousand mile screw driver. amazon/Cambodian-Odyssey-The-Deaths-Journalists/dp/0595166067
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