Good Information or Confusing? A Word of Caution Regarding DPAA’s Korean War “POW/MIA Lists”. From TAH.

2015-11-01T18:46:51-05:00

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.

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Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Official U.S. Government website for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Our mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

Response by MAJ Ken Landgren made Nov 1 at 2015 7:01 PM

2015-11-01T19:01:55-05:00

I personally think they under perform. There are 70,000 Americans still missing.

Response by SSG Carlos Madden made Nov 1 at 2015 8:58 PM

2015-11-01T20:58:46-05:00

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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