Story by Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal | DMA Pacific - Hawaii Media Bureau | 01.30.2015
Service members and civilians attended the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) Deactivation Ceremony Jan. 30.
Story by Cpl. Timothy Childers | 1st Marine Logistics Group | 10.23.2013
More than 40 years have passed since the last American combat troops returned from Vietnam, leaving more than a thousand unaccounted-for Americans in Indochina....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Coast Guard Headquarters | 08.01.2013
One year after a U.S. Coast Guard-coordinated expedition to locate the possible site of a World War II Grumman Duck J2F-4 rescue plane that disappeared with two Coast Guard rescuers and a U.S. Army Air Forces corporal, the Coast Guard has returned to Koge Bay, Greenland, to complete the mission....
Story by Senior Airman Susan Davis | Grand Forks Air Force Base | 11.29.2012
An officer stationed at Grand Forks Air Force Base, traveled thousands of miles earlier this year to return to his birth country of Vietnam for the first time in eight years. But Capt. Huy Tran wasn’t there to reunite with his own family or friends. His mission was to help search for and recover missing Vietnam War personnel, a rewarding experience Tran says he won’t soon forget....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Adelita Mead | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 10.12.2012
Specialized archaeological recovery teams from the U.S. Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command are deployed to Vanuatu searching for four Americans who remain unaccounted-for from World War II....
Story by Cpl. Reece Lodder | Marine Corps Base Hawaii | 09.21.2012
Silence blankets the vast, hallowed grounds. At its entrance, the Stars and Stripes fly at half-mast, gently ruffling in the light morning wind. Today, unlike the day previous, a black and white flag flies below, honoring thousands who were prisoners of war and those who are still missing in action....
Story by Sgt. Mark Miranda | 5th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.17.2012
On Sept. 2, 1950, Pvt. Richard Clapp and C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment came under fire near Yulchon, South Korea. Clapp was killed in action. The Army was unable to identify his remains at the time, and he was buried as “Unknown” in a military cemetery on the Korean Peninsula; later moved to the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii....
Courtesy Story | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 06.25.2012
Investigation team closes site after successful recovery mission
