The Search Continues: Technology Advances Help Military Identify Remains of Missing
Gina Cavallaro, Senior Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
Sgt. 1st Class Alan Boyer was 22 when he went missing in Savannakhet Province, Laos. He was on a classified special operations mission as part of an 11-man team assigned to the Military Assistance Command, Vietnam, Studies and Observations Group.
He and his team of U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers requested aerial extraction when they came under enemy fire. The terrain was too rugged for the responding U.S. helicopter to land, so a ladder was lowered to the men on the ground.
Several team members made it into the aircraft before the ladder broke, and the helicopter was forced to leave under heavy fire. Boyer, a Vietnamese soldier and two other U.S. soldiers—Sgt. 1st Class George Brown and Sgt. Charles Huston—were left behind, never to be seen alive again.
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