Feb. 22, 2025

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.

Jan. 6, 2025

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 forgotten. The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency lives up to that promise by working to recover and identify Defense Department personnel still unaccounted for as prisoners of war or missing in action.With teams spanning 46 countries, DPAA’s mission

Dec. 26, 2024

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 gunner on a B-17G Flying Fortress, left to fight in World War II. Hop went missing Dec. 29, 1944, during the Battle of the Bulge. He was just 20 years old.Wong never stopped yearning to find out what happened to her brother and the U.S. Army never stopped

Dec. 3, 2024

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 benefits it affords. For some, the opportunity presents itself in a way that can only be described as the right place at the right time, and the story that blossoms from there can be filled with more opportunities than planned.Air Force Maj. Anh Ison,

Oct. 15, 2024

Digging for answers: Ellsworth officer contributes to DPAA efforts

People join the Air Force for many reasons, from the potential to travel abroad to the educational benefits it affords. For some, the opportunity happens to present itself in a way that can only be described as the right place at the right time, and the story that blossoms from there can be filled with more opportunities than planned.Maj. Anh Ison,

Oct. 9, 2024

Missing Vet Found After 51 Years Laid to Rest by Family Who Never Gave Up

WASHINGTON D.C. — Under a clear-blue autumn sky, a 21-gun salute reverberated through Arlington National Cemetery's Section 47 on Monday, splitting the silence that had enveloped the mourners paying their final respects to Marine Corps Capt. Ronald Forrester. Two V-22 Ospreys performed a flyover while "The President's Own" U.S. Marine Band played Taps and Marine

Aug. 16, 2024

Families of Service Members Gone Missing in Action Get Answers at Annual Briefing

More than 400 family members, with relatives who served in the Korean War or the Cold War who never came home, are attending personalized briefings today and tomorrow in Arlington, Virginia, to get updates on how the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is progressing on their cases."We do this each year because this is part of DPAA's mission, which

July 25, 2024

NOAA, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency agree to share ocean exploration data

Two-pronged partnership will honor U.S. military lost at sea and advance scientific ocean discoveryNOAA and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) have signed a formal memorandum of understanding (MOU) to share data and scientific information, and collaborate on ocean exploration work that contributes to the missions of both federal

July 1, 2024

DOD Updates Families of Vietnam War Missing

The Defense Department has a steadfast and sacred commitment to finding, recovering, identifying and repatriating the remains of its heroes who are unaccounted for, said Kelly K. McKeague, director of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.McKeague spoke yesterday to family members of missing service members who fought in the Vietnam War. Today,

May 16, 2024

Personal Effects Provide Clues in Search for Missing WWII Airmen

A 25-member team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency is in the Normandy region of France searching for three missing airmen whose C-47A aircraft was presumably shot down by German anti-aircraft fire on D-Day, June 6, 1944.Air Force Master Sgt. Raul Castillo, the team's lead support investigator, or LSI, works closely with the scientific