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Two Teams as One
September 11, 2024 — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the Socialist Republic of Vietnam have forged a strong collaborative relationship over the decades to account for personnel missing from the Vietnam War. Since 1973, their joint efforts have led to the identification and dignified burial of thousands of personnel. Each year, multiple investigations are conducted in Vietnam to collect evidence, investigate leads, and conduct excavations... MORE

Members of a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team pose for a group photo alongside members of the Vietnam Office for Seeking Missing Persons during a DPAA recovery mission in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Sept. 5, 2024.

The Guadalcanal Campaign: US Returns to Recover
August 13, 2024 — DPAA is an organization of military and civilian personnel that fulfills the nation’s obligation to ensure the fullest possible accounting of its missing personnel to their families and the nation. Teams consisting of anthropologists, EOD technicians, independent duty medical technicians, public affairs specialists and more, are deployed worldwide to locations of past conflicts to investigate, excavate and recover U.S. personnel losses... MORE

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery team members and local Solomon Islanders work together to screen dirt from an excavation site during a recovery mission in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands, July 23, 2024.

State-of-the-Art Lab Helps Identify Lost Service Members
November 10, 2015 — JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii -- Sifting through the remains of lost military members is no easy task, but it’s one researchers and scientists take very seriously at the Defense POW/MIA... MORE

Secretary of Defense Ash Carter greets U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Claudia Smallman, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery noncommissioned officer. While at DPAA, he spoke with service members about the importance of the agency's joint mission in the Indo-Asia Pacific region. The mission of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. La'Shanette Garrett)

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