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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.
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.