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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.
DPMO provided centralized management of prisoner of war/missing personnel (POW/MP) affairs within the Department of Defense. On January 30, 2015, DPMO, along with the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, were merged into the new Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. DPMO thus ceased to be as a separate entity.
JPAC was a standing direct reporting unit within the United States Pacific Command.Its headquarters were located at Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam in Hawaii.. JPAC maintained three permanent overseas detachments, two local detachments, the Annex, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and the European Liaison Office located on Miesau Army Depot, Germany; all devoted to the ongoing tasks of POW/MIA ...
The agency identified 59 servicemembers in 2013, when the Offutt lab first opened. That number has steadily risen — 159 service members last year, up from 134 in 2022 — and the labs have a ...
U.S. Army Pvt. Jeremiah P. Mahoney was assigned to an anti-tank company in Europe during the war, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency said in a news release. Maroney, originally from Chicago ...
The North Korean authorities reported to the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency that they couldn't be sure how many individuals were represented in the 55 boxes. [16] There was only one dog tag among the remains. [17] Other servicemen could be identified through matching DNA, chest X-rays, and dental records.
Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA) Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Defense Finance and Accounting Service (DFAS) Defense Health Agency (DHA) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) Defense Legal Services Agency (DLSA) Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Defense POW/MIA Accounting ...
Ann Mills-Griffiths, chairman and chief executive officer of the National League of POW/MIA Families, said that "working-level White House staff members" had been made aware of the concern over ...