Video by Sgt. Anthony Todd | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 08.13.2025
U.S. Air Force Airmen 1st Class Joshua Clunan, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short-term individual augmentee avionics systems journeyman assigned to Ramstein Air Base, Germany, explains the excavation process during a recovery mission in Germany, August 13, 2025. The agency is conducting a recovery mission in partnership with service members from Ramstein Air Base, the 8th Engineer......
Video by Senior Airman Cole Yardley | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 09.16.2022
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency hosts a ceremony for National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, HI, Sept. 16, 2022. The event is held every year on the third Friday of September, honoring prisoners of war and missing-in-action service members. DPAA's mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for......
Video by Sgt. Mitchell Ryan | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 09.17.2021
U.S. service members, former prisoners of war, families, and veterans join together for a National POW/MIA Recognition Day ceremony outside the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) facility on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, Sept.17, 2021. First established in 1979, through a proclamation from President Jimmy Carter, National POW/MIA Recognition Day, is an observance to honor and......
Video by Petty Officer 1st Class Tyler Thompson | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 09.20.2019
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) holds a ceremony for National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 20, 2019. The event is held every year on the third Friday of September in honor of those who were POWs and those who are MIA. DPAA's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel to their......
Video by Julie Barry and Roy Epstein | Defense Intelligence Agency | 09.18.2019
Our Nation will never forget the heroes who were willing to give their all to preserve and protect our freedoms. We will not stop searching for our service members who are missing in action. Since 1967, the Defense Intelligence Agency has been leading the efforts in the POW/MIA mission. Our mission began during the Vietnam War, and we will continue to work until we bring every American home....
Video by Petty Officer 2nd Class Clifford Bailey | Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency | 09.16.2016
Every third Friday of September is the day our nation gathers to remember and honor those who never made it home. It is the nation's sacred promise and DPAA's sworn duty to make the fullest possible accounting of our war lost by bringing them home. This is b-roll of the ceremony held in Hawaii at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. For more information, please visit www.dpaa.mil......
Video by Staff Sgt. Ross Whitley | Space Launch Delta 30 | 10.06.2015
Story about POW/MIA Day events.
