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.

May 28, 2025

Lt. Col. Travis Walter: A More Personal Connection to the DPAA Mission

HANOI, Vietnam — Serving in Vietnam in support of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, a U.S. Army lieutenant colonel carries an additional, personal connection to the mission.

May 19, 2025

A Chance Encounter Leads to Hope

BELLEVUE, Wash. — For years, the only thing Jennifer McDaniel knew about her great uncle, Pete, was that he had gone missing during his time serving in World War II. She knew that her family, overcome by the grief from such a loss, would not allow themselves to hope.