NEWS | Dec. 23, 2024
Kentucky Guardsman Helps Recover Missing Aircrew in Vietnam
By Airman 1st Class Annaliese Billings, 123rd Airlift Wing
LOUISVILLE, Ky. - A Kentucky Air National Guardsman was instrumental in helping locate the remains of two U.S. Marine aviators lost in combat over Vietnam a half-century ago.
Master Sgt. Dustin Turner, an explosive ordnance disposal technician assigned to the 123rd Civil Engineer Squadron in Louisville, joined with more than a dozen other U.S. Airmen, Soldiers and Marines to excavate 368 square meters of rice paddies in the province of Quang Binh in June 2023.
The painstaking work, which called on Turner’s EOD skills to screen for unexploded ordnance, located aircraft parts, an intact dog tag and osseous material belonging to the fallen Marines. As a result of those efforts, the family members were notified that their loved ones were no longer missing in action.
https://www.nationalguard.mil/News/Article-View/Article/4015600/kentucky-guardsman-helps-recover-missing-aircrew-in-vietnam/
