May 3, 2025

An EOD technician’s passion returns him to DPAA

VIETNAM — An Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician assigned as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short term individual augmentee, deployed with a small team of military and civilian members to A Loui, Vietnam, from March 1 to April 17, 2025, as part of a DPAA mission to recover and identify remains of missing U.S. personnel from past conflicts.

May 2, 2025

A Room for Closure: Inside DPAA's Sacred Space

JOINT BASE PEARL HARBOR-HICKAM — Every aspect of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency building was designed with significances and intention. Every architectural detail, from its placement to the smallest design element, reflects this profound mission.

April 29, 2025

There’s a first for everything

PHOU PHA THI, Laos — U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Connor Dougherty, a medic with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, played a critical role in maintaining the health, safety and operational readiness of his recovery team during a recent mission with DPAA.

April 28, 2025

Mentorship Shapes First Field Mission for DPAA Forensic Anthropologist

QUẢNG TRỊ, Vietnam — After spending years in laboratories and archaeological digs across the globe — from a post-classic Mayan town in Belize to colonial cemeteries in Mississippi, this year marked a new kind of fieldwork for a seasoned scientist: her first full recovery mission with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. After joining DPAA in late 2024, forensic anthropologist Dr. Larkin F. Kennedy was quickly deployed to Quảng Trị province, Vietnam, for 2 months in the beginning of 2025 with a small team of service members and civilians. They worked as one of five recovery teams sent out with the second mission to Vietnam in fiscal year 2025, in hopes of finding remains of U.S. personnel from the Vietnam War.

April 19, 2025

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Conducts Repatriation Ceremony in Vietnam

VIETNAM — Members of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, the Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons, and U.S. Ambassador Marc Knapper, took part in a repatriation ceremony in Vietnam, April 19, 2025.