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In 2001, the Dover Port Mortuary became the sole port mortuary in the continental U.S. after the mortuary at Travis Air Force Base in California closed. In 2003, the new Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs replaced the 48-year-old facility that had been in use since 1955 to identify and process the remains of over 50,000 service members.
The Air Force has a similar facility at Dover AFB in Delaware, manned by the Army's Mortuary Affairs Personnel. Until 1991, the army's mortuary affairs was known as the Graves Registration Service (GRS or GRREG). [1] The Graves Registration Service was created several months after the United States entered World War I.
The transfer is conducted upon arrival at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, from the arriving aircraft to a transfer vehicle, which then proceeds to the Charles C. Carson Center for Mortuary Affairs. [1] US military officials do not designate the dignified transfer as a ceremony so that loved ones of the deceased do not feel obliged to attend. [2]
Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations (AFMAO) Dover Air Force Base, Delaware Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI) Quantico, Virginia: Air Force Personnel Center (AFPC) JBSA-Randolph, San Antonio, Texas: Air Force Personnel Operations Agency (AFPOA) Washington, D.C. Air Reserve Personnel Center (ARPC) Buckley Space Force Base, Colorado
Dover Air Force Base or Dover AFB (IATA: DOV, ICAO: KDOV, FAA LID: DOV) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base under the operational control of Air Mobility Command (AMC), located 2 miles (3.2 km) southeast of the city of Dover, Delaware.
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He was the deputy mortuary officer at Tan Son Nhut Air Base, Republic of Vietnam and Clark Air Force Base in the Philippines from 1964 to 1970. During the early part of the Vietnam War, he covered mortuary affairs in Thailand, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. He also administered mortuary contracts in New Guinea, New Zealand and Australia.
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