For many veterans, coming home means losing the mission that gave
them purpose.
But it doesn’t have to end there.
At Tours of Duty, we train veterans to deploy again — not to fight, but to find America’s missing heroes and bring them home.
This means new career skill sets that matter:
✅ Aerial Mapping and Photogrammetry
✅ Drone Pilot Certification
✅ LiDAR Scanning
✅ Forensic Investigation and Recovery Techniques
Veterans learn to operate drones over dense jungle, analyze terrain for hidden crash sites, and perform dignified, scientific recovery of remains.
They reclaim purpose while fulfilling a promise: no one left behind.
We have sites ready to search, but we need skilled operators to deploy now, before leads are lost and sites become inaccessible for another season.
When you give, you invest in veterans, giving them new purpose and empowering them to bring America’s missing heroes home.
Help train veterans for the next mission. Equip them to bring our heroes home.
Brothers in the Wind: Bringing Them Home from Southeast Asia
They were young when they went — helicopter pilots, crewmen,
medics, infantrymen. They served with courage across the jungles and
mountains of Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia.
And for many, there was no grave, no goodbye. Only a missing report, a folded flag, and families left to wonder.
More than 1,500 American servicemembers remain missing in Southeast Asia. Their families have waited for decades, holding onto hope that one day, they will come home.
Every day, potential sites degrade under jungle growth. Witnesses age. Leads disappear forever.
We have a narrow window this season to reach key sites in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia. If we miss it, these heroes may never be found.
In many Native traditions, a person does not truly die until their name is spoken for the last time.
At Tours of Duty, we believe it is our mission to ensure that day never comes.
The Mission:
We are veterans who once fought in these lands, returning not with weapons, but with purpose. We go back to search, to recover, and to honor our brothers in the wind.
Using drones, LiDAR, and advanced forensic recovery skills, we walk the ridgelines, riverbanks, and rice paddies where they were last seen. We follow fragile leads before they are lost forever, ensuring these heroes are found, named, and honored.
Why This Mission Matters:
✅ For Families: To replace decades of silence with
answers.
✅ For the Missing: To honor their
service by bringing them home.
✅ For Veterans:
To continue serving, finding those who cannot return
themselves.
✅ For America: To keep our nation’s
sacred promise: No one left behind.
How You Can Help:
Your support powers:
🛰️ Drone and LiDAR scans to locate hidden crash
sites beneath dense jungle canopy.
👣 Veteran-led
teams who investigate, recover, and document remains with
care and respect.
📜 Archival research and local
interviews to trace final missions.
🎒
Logistics, equipment, and training to keep these
missions safe and effective.
Your Impact:
🍂 $25 feeds a recovery team member for a day in the
field.
🚁 $100 funds drone flights over search
grids.
⚙️ $500 equips veterans with
mission-critical recovery tools.
🌏 $1,000
covers in-country travel to high-priority sites.
🏞️
$5,000 funds two full days of mission
operations.
🎖️ $10,000 sponsors a comprehensive
search and recovery mission.
These veterans began their service on the battlefield. Now, they return to the field, not to fight — but to find.
This mission is about more than recovery. It is about keeping faith with those who served and the families who have waited for far too long.
Our goal is to raise $55,000 by October 15th to deploy our veteran-led recovery teams during the upcoming weather window when terrain is accessible.
Every dollar fuels drones, field teams, and recovery missions that can’t wait.
Help us bring them home — now.
