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DPAA In The News

News 2 | Aug. 12, 2024

Inside the recovery of MIA Americans from a secret jungle base.

By Joshua Skovlund

Katie Rubin was on a rugged cliffside in a remote Laos jungle when she spotted the human bones. 

“I was attached via a relatively short sewn runner to a fixed line that had been placed by one of our six-foot-something team members,” Rubin said. “I noticed what looked like possible skeletal material on the surface at the edge of a drop-off.”

Rubin was lowering down the face of a sheer mountain, the summit of which was once Lima Site 85, a top-secret Air Force radio site in the Vietnam War. The station was overrun in a fierce firefight in 1968, with 11 Americans who manned the site never recovered. 

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