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June 30, 2025
DPAA Met with Gold Star Families in Omaha, Nebraska for Vietnam War Annual Government Briefing
OFFUTT AIR FORCE BASE, Neb. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency held its Vietnam War Annual Government Briefing in Omaha, Nebraska, on June 26 and 27, providing families with the latest information regarding their loved ones’ cases. This was the first time holding the meeting outside of Washington D.C.
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.
DPAA Hosts Vietnamese Delegation, Highlights Cooperation in Accounting for Missing Personnel
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Principal Deputy Director, Fern Sumpter Winbush, hosted a Vietnamese delegation, to include the Deputy Foreign Minister of Vietnam, H.E. Do Hung Viet, and Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States, H.E. Nguyen Quoc Dzung, representatives from Mission: POW-MIA, the Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the Vietnam Veterans of America in Washington D.C., May 21, 2025.
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.