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Yeah , the Department of Defense POW

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Missing Personnel Office identified the

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remains of an airman who's been missing

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for 40 years . Staff Sergeant chris

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pile shows us how this discovery

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finally gives his family some closure .

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Para rescue men . Alan Avery was aboard

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an HH 53 C along with five other airmen

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performing a search and rescue mission

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over the Quang tri province in South

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Vietnam . They were hit by enemy ground

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fire and crashed after

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years of analysis and improvements in

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technology used in the identification

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process . Tech Sergeant Avery's remains

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were accounted for Avery's daughter ,

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Debbie Mcbride , who was just seven

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when her father passed , attended the

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ceremony along with fellow para rescue

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men reporting from Arlington National

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Cemetery in Virginia . I'm staff

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sergeant chris piles .