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The official party inspects the joint services honor guard at the Pentagon on National POW/MIA Recognition Day.
Commander of Troops Col. Thomas M. Jordan (2nd from left), U.S. Army, escorts Deputy Secretary of Defense Rudy de Leon (right), Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Richard B. Myers (left), U.S. Air Force, and keynote speaker Lt. Col. Richard E. Smith, Jr., U.S. Air Force (Retired), as they inspect the joint services honor guard at the Pentagon on National POW/MIA Recognition Day, Sept. 15, 2000. Smith, who flew F-105D fighter-bombers out of Takli Air Force Base, Thailand, during the Vietnam War, was shot down over North Vietnam in October 1967 and served 5 1/2 years as a prisoner of war.