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ARMY
Recovery team off to Cambodia
A seven-member recovery team from Joint Task Force-Full Accounting and the Army's Central Identification Laboratory, Hawai'i deployed to Cambodia last week in hopes of recovering an American missing in action from the war in Southeast Asia.
The team members, mostly from Hawai'i, deployed to Phnom Penh, where they will be joined by Cambodian technical experts.
The combined team is conducting the recovery effort in the southern coastal pro-vince of Kompong Som.
Since 1973, the remains of 637 American service members, formerly listed as unaccounted for in Southeast Asia, have been identified and returned to their families. Nearly 2,000 people remain unaccounted for, 60 of whom are thought to be in Cambodia.
NAVY
Tour guides sought for ship
The USS Missouri Memorial Association is looking for volunteer tour guides.
The guides would work two days or evenings each month and would share the history of the USS Missouri, which served in three wars and was the site of the Japanese surrender in World War II.
For details, call the association at 455-1600, Ext. 226. Each prospective tour guide attends a two-day or four-evening training session aboard the battleship.
The association is a private Hawai'i-based nonprofit organization designated by the Navy as caretaker for the battleship. It is supported by admissions, retail and concession sales, donations, grants and the work of volunteers.
Museum gets new sub models
Four new models of U.S. nuclear submarines will be unveiled at 2 p.m. Thursday at the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum and Park.
The models, by award-winning model maker Don Preul, were commissioned to expand the museum's Cold War exhibits.
The ships to be unveiled are the USS Alaska, USS Tucson, USS Seawolf and the USS Hawai'i. The model of the IJN Akagi on display at the USS Arizona Memorial Museum was built by Preul, whose company builds models for museums, associations and corporations nationwide.
Last year, Preul took top honors at a model-building contest at the Wisconsin Maritime Museum.
