Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA)

2025 Vietnam Annual Government Briefing

The DPAA Annual Government Briefing will be held in Omaha, Nebraska, June 26-27, 2025. Get the official word and updates directly from DPAA on our website and social media channels. The AGB is not impacted by the status of other organizations' events.

A Chance Encounter Leads to Hope

Jennifer McDaniel, family member of a missing in action service member, reads the last letter her great uncle sent before his disappearance during a Family Member Update in Bellevue, Washington, May 3, 2025. McDaniel’s great uncle, Donald Raymond Vogel, enlisted as a private in the U.S. Army Air Forces during World War II, and went missing in April 1943.

DPAA Conducts Investigation Mission in Morotai with Support from U.S. Embassy Jakarta

Members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency and the U.S. Embassy, right, meet with Indonesian National army Col. Stefie Nuhujanan, head of the Indonesian National army History Center (Pusjarah), in Jakarta, Indonesia, April 14, 2025. The meeting focused on DPAA's ongoing investigation mission to locate the unaccounted personnel from World War II near the island of Morotai. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher)

928th Contracting Battalion Visits DPAA Recovery Site in France

U.S. Army Maj. Gillian Haddox, left, contracting detachment commander assigned to the 928th Contracting Battalion, 409th Contracting Support Brigade, Grafenwöhr, Germany, talks to Master Sgt. John Meholick, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Europe-Mediterranean directorate senior enlisted advisor and mission planner, during their site visit to a DPAA recovery site in France, April 8, 2025. DPAA often partners with the contracting unit, which provides support for the agency’s missions in the Europe-Mediterranean area. Approximately 71,946 personnel remain missing from World War II. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Annaliss Candelaria)

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Met with Gold Star Families in Bellevue

Rosanne Sallee, shares the memory of her first husband, U.S. Marine Corps 1st Lt. Karle Seydel, who was killed in action on Dec. 7, 1950, during the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Family Member Update, Bellevue, Washington, May 3, 2025. Families of missing service members share stories about their loved ones during the remembrance ceremony at the Family Member Update, which also included information about ongoing recoveries, identification processes and advancements, partnerships and innovations, and any significant developments regarding specific cases of missing service members. DPAA aims to account for the Nation’s still missing while keeping the families of the missing informed and involved. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Shay Stuart)

An EOD technician’s passion returns him to DPAA

Tech. Sgt. Joshua Sims, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician assigned as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short term individual augmentee, and the DPAA Accounting Agency recovery team, Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons officials, and local Vietnamese workers pose for a photo after completing recovery operations in Vietnam on April 11, 2025. DPAA’s mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of U.S. missing personnel to their families and the nation; there are currently 1,572 missing U.S. personnel from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Chloe Zimmerer)

2025 Vietnam Annual Government Briefing

A Chance Encounter Leads to Hope

DPAA Conducts Investigation Mission in Morotai with Support from U.S. Embassy Jakarta

928th Contracting Battalion Visits DPAA Recovery Site in France

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Met with Gold Star Families in Bellevue

An EOD technician’s passion returns him to DPAA

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STORIES & ANNOUNCEMENTS

Airman Accounted For From World War II (McLaughlin, H.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Pvt. Herbert E. McLaughlin, 31, of Shawano, Wisconsin, killed during World War Story

Airman Accounted for from WWII (Sheppick, D.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces 2nd Lt. Donald W. Sheppick, 26, of Roscoe, Pennsylvania, killed during World War Story

Airman Accounted For From World War II (Governale, N.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Air Forces Staff Sgt. Nicholas J. Governale, 22, killed during World War II, was accounted Story

Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Estrada, A.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that Army Cpl. Albert J. Estrada, 17, of Woodland, California, killed during the Korean War, was accounted Story

Soldier Accounted For From Korean War (Brock, J.) The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced today that U.S. Army Sgt. James B. Brock, 20, of Phoenix, Arizona, killed during the Korean War, was accounted Story

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DPAA IN THE DOD NEWS

Defense Secretary Announces 100th Service Member Identified From Remains Turned Over by North Korea The 100th service member from a group of remains handed over by North Korea seven years ago has been successfully identified, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth announced from Hawaii. Story

Department Tells Gold Star Families: We'll Find Loved Ones, Bring Them Home Some 380 Gold Star families attended a family member update to learn how the agency is proceeding in efforts to repatriate the remains of service members who never returned home from the Vietnam War, the Korean War or World War II. Story

Returning heroes home: How DISA supports DPAA’s mission to bring the missing back to their families Every U.S. Warfighter who answers the nation’s call carries a solemn promise: they will never be Story

HRC’s Past Conflicts Repatriation Branch strives to connect Families with fallen Marge Hop Wong was in the third grade when her brother Staff Sgt. Yuen Hop, who became a waist Story

Face of Defense: Air Force Officer Contributes to DPAA Efforts People join the Air Force for many reasons, from the potential to travel abroad to the educational Story

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