Posted on Nov 1, 2015
Good Information or Confusing? A Word of Caution Regarding DPAA’s Korean War “POW/MIA Lists”. From TAH.
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The POW/MIA issue is near and dear to my heart. I thought I understood how they work. This is from This Ain't Hell, a Stolen Valor website. It has a lot of information on how the DPAA works for each war since WWII. I've included the link to the DPAA website if you are interested in looking through their site and read more information about the MIA's.
http://www.dpaa.mil
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has the mission of accounting for those who never came home. And they do a credibly good job IMO of doing so.
However, here’s a caution regarding some of the information on their website.
DPAA maintains publicly-accessible lists of those US personnel still missing from past conflicts going back to World War II. These lists are excellent sources, and seem to be kept reasonably well up-to-date as additional personnel from those conflicts are identified.
These lists are differently structured for World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. A bit of background about each of those lists is essential to understand what the lists are actually telling you. I decided to write this article to give that background.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=62516&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thisainthell%2FnTMY+%28This+ain%27t+Hell%2C+but+you+can+see+it+from+here%29
http://www.dpaa.mil
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) has the mission of accounting for those who never came home. And they do a credibly good job IMO of doing so.
However, here’s a caution regarding some of the information on their website.
DPAA maintains publicly-accessible lists of those US personnel still missing from past conflicts going back to World War II. These lists are excellent sources, and seem to be kept reasonably well up-to-date as additional personnel from those conflicts are identified.
These lists are differently structured for World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. A bit of background about each of those lists is essential to understand what the lists are actually telling you. I decided to write this article to give that background.
http://thisainthell.us/blog/?p=62516&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thisainthell%2FnTMY+%28This+ain%27t+Hell%2C+but+you+can+see+it+from+here%29
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Thanks for sharing SGT Bodine. This is an important group and vital to our overall mission. SFC Mark Merino knows a bit about this department as well.
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SFC Mark Merino
I just had my world and our plans turned completely turned upside down. Guam/Saipan won't let me put a teaspoon into the ground working with them unless I attend the field craft training prior. That means I am either having to go to the University of Hawaii or Guam prior. If my Japanese was better I could dig all day long with the DPAA sister agency based on Honshu. The caveat is that once they recognize the remains as anything other than Japanese they call in the other agencies. Our war missing is a drop in the bucket compared to theirs.
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SFC Mark Merino, Those are some of the hang ups endured in these searches. I know it's frustrating,to say the least, but thank you for what you do. I couldn't guess how many Japanese are missing. Hundreds of thousands I would guess.
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SGT (Join to see)
SSG Carlos Madden, All my pleasure. I wish I was more involved in finding our lost Heroes.
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