Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

Missing and Not Forgotten: Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise

We are pleased to announce the launch of our new podcast, dedicated to the ongoing efforts to search for, recover, and identify Americans missing from the Nation's past conflicts.

Listeners are invited to join the conversation by tuning in on the first Monday of each month, as we talk about talk about the innovative approaches used in working our mission.

Episodes can be found on Spotify, Apple Music, and here on our webpage. (links to follow)

DPAA ES leadership visits France recovery team

From left, U.S. Air Force Capt. Brian Foxworth, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team leader, sifts through soil with U.S. Army Lt. Col. Sean Ontiveros, DPAA Expeditionary Support (ES) director, and U.S. Army Master Sgt. Benjamin Sievert, DPAA ES noncommissioned officer in charge, during a tour of a recovery mission site in France, May 19, 2024.

Ontiveros and Sievert received first-hand experience in conducting recovery operations in Europe.

There are approximately 1,438 missing personnel in France from World War II.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. David Owsianka

Montana area families joined DPAA for the 2024 Family Member Update

A POW/MIA family member shares her story during a remembrance ceremony at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) Family Member Update (FMU) in Billings, Montana, May 18, 2024.

FMUs give family members of POW/MIA personnel the opportunity to speak with government officials face-to-face about their specific cases. Family members also receive various briefings on DPAA partnerships and innovations, scientific research, recovery operations, and new identification efforts.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Blake Gonzales

The Mission Continues in Vietnam

U.S. Army Sgt. 1st Class Nativo Rodriguez (left), a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) team sergeant, and U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Kelsey Aldridge (right), a DPAA short term individual augmentee (STIA) independent provider, set up a filter for wet screen stations during a DPAA recovery operation in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, March 6, 2024.

Wet screening is the process where soil is washed through wire mesh with high-pressure hoses to find any potential osseous material, life support equipment or material evidence.

There remain 1,577 missing personnel unaccounted-for in Vietnam.

U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Annaliss Candelaria

Recovery Operations Continue in France

U.S. Army Spc. Sefie Franck Yeo, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team member, prepares to place soil into a bucket during a recovery mission in France, April 28, 2024.

Multiple tools, methods and systems are utilized throughout each recovery mission in order to maximize time and space on site.

There are approximately 1,438 missing personnel in France from World War II.

U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. David Owsianka

DPAA conducts Vietnam Honorable Carry Ceremony

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Sarah Lindsey, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) mission planner, carries a case during an honorable carry ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, April 17, 2024.

The ceremony involved the transfer of a case containing possible osseous material found during a recovery mission in Vietnam. The cases were transferred to DPAA laboratories for scientific analysis and possible identification.

U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Todd

Missing and Not Forgotten: Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise

DPAA ES leadership visits France recovery team

Montana area families joined DPAA for the 2024 Family Member Update

The Mission Continues in Vietnam

Recovery Operations Continue in France

DPAA conducts Vietnam Honorable Carry Ceremony

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