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Fern Sumpter Winbush, principal deputy director for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, gives an opening brief to families of missing service members at the DPAA Family Member Update, Bellevue, Washington, May 3, 2025.

May 3, 2025

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Met with Gold Star Families in Bellevue

BELLEVUE, Wash. — The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosted its latest Family Member Update on May 3, where the agency provided updates to the families on their loved one’s cases.The event saw around 250 family

Tech. Sgt. Joshua Sims, an Explosive Ordnance Disposal technician assigned as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short term individual augmentee, and the DPAA Accounting Agency recovery team, Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons officials, and local Vietnamese workers pose for a photo after completing recovery operations in Vietnam on April 11, 2025.

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.

An exterior view of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency family viewing room from the building’s atrium, April 25, 2025, on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii.

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.

U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Danny Black, left, a team sergeant and U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Connor Dougherty, a medic, both with Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, lower a Skedco stretcher for a medical evacuation rehearsal during a recovery mission in Laos, Mar. 2, 2025.

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.

Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency 25-2VN recovery team members and local Vietnamese workers excavate an archaeological unit and pass material to a wet screening station during a recovery operation in Vietnam, March 9, 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.

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Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency PAO
Washington, D.C.
2300 Defense Pentagon
Attn: Outreach and Communications
Washington, D.C. 20301-2300
Email: dpaa.ncr.oc.mbx.public-affairs@mail.mil