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June 26, 2025
From Sea to Summit: A Summer Cruise in South Korea
SOUTH KOREA — This wasn’t the kind of summer cruise you’d find featured in admissions pamphlets. There was no ship, no underway watches, and definitely no galley serving powdered eggs at 6 a.m. Instead, Midshipman 1st Class Nick Feaster and Midshipman 2nd Class Jordan Trantham, students at the U.S. Naval Academy, found themselves knee-deep in dirt on a remote Korean mountainside, wielding excavation tools rather than a sextant. Their instruments were a pinpointer and a trowel and were working with a pair of mountaineers who knew the ridgelines better than any GPS ever could.
June 17, 2025
Sergeant Major Returns to DPAA as Senior Enlisted Advisor
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — The new Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency senior enlisted advisor, U.S. Army Sgt. Maj. Lauren Flores, has returned to the agency for the third time in her career on May 27, 2025.
June 13, 2025
Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Soldiers Celebrated Army’s 250th Birthday
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — U.S. Army personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency celebrated their branch’s 250th birthday at the DPAA Daniel K. Inouye Center for Excellence in Hawaii, June 13, 2025.
June 12, 2025
Space Force Guardian Escorts WWII Airman Uncle Home After 80 Years
PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. — Just days after Memorial Day, as the nation honors those who gave their lives in service, 2nd Lt. Katherine Hendl carried out a deeply personal mission: escorting the remains of her great-great-uncle, Staff Sergeant Loring E. Lord, a U.S. Army Air Forces gunner killed in action during World War II, home to Massachusetts—nearly 80 years after he was declared missing in action.
May 30, 2025
Marine's Vietnam Mission Rekindles Family Legacy
JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM, Hawaii — “No man left behind” is more than just a phrase for Marine Corps Gunnery Sgt. Kenneth FuQua. It represents a profound commitment: to uphold the nation's promise to provide the fullest possible accounting for U.S. missing personnel to their families and the nation.