POW/MIA Recognition Day

Chief Master Sergeant Trevor Brinton speaks about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that continued on base.

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Thu., Sept. 19, 2024

Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson stands in front of the bronze statue at the Vietnam War memorial in Riverfront Park and listens to U.S. Air Force servicemen talk about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base. Anderson served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 as a hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines. He also helped raise the money to build the memorial and its bronze statue in 1985.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson, right, listens as Chief Master Sergeant Trevor Brinton, left, speaks about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base. Anderson served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 as a hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines. He also helped raise the money to build the memorial and its bronze statue in 1985.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
USAF Chief Master Sergeant Trevor Brinton speaks about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
USAF Col. Nathan McClure, standing in front of the Vietnam War memorial in Riverfront Park in Spokane, speaks about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance event in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base. The SERE school, named for the phrase survival-evasion-resistance-escape, teaches the skills of surviving while avoiding capture or resisting imprisonment should their aircraft go down in enemy territory.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson, center, and Chief Master Sergeant Trevor Brinton, right, listens to Col. Nathan McClure, left, talk about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base. Anderson served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 as a hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines. He also helped raise the money to build the memorial and its bronze statue in 1985.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
Vietnam War veteran Wes Anderson, right, listens as Chief Master Sergeant Trevor Brinton, left, speaks about the meaning of POW/MIA Recognition Day to a class of students of the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024. After the remembrance held at the Vietnam War memorial sculpture in Riverfront Park, the group put on their rucksacks and marched back to Fairchild as part of a 24-hour training march that will would continue on base. Anderson served in Vietnam from 1966 to 1968 as a hospital corpsman with the U.S. Marines. He also helped raise the money to build the memorial and its bronze statue in 1985.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review
After a short ceremony talking about POW/MIA Recognition Day at the Vietnam War memorial in Spokane's Riverfront Park Thursday, Sept. 19, 2024, a group of students from the Fairchild Air Force Base SERE school take off on a march of several miles back to the base in Airway Heights which will include a 24-hour march. SERE stands for survival, evasion, resistance and escape, a training of several months that teaches air crews how to evade capture or survive imprisonment if their planes go down in enemy territory.

Jesse Tinsley The Spokesman-Review