This b-roll features the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) hosting a ceremony for National POW/MIA Recognition Day at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii, Sept. 15, 2023. Over 300 U.S. military service members, former prisoners of war, families and veterans attended the ceremony to commemorate service members and families who gave the ultimate sacrifice. (U.S. Army video by Sgt. Edward Randolph)
As she scanned the area, she found that there were drastic changes to the landscape since the previous excavation and her plan had to compensate for those changes. It was on Jan 21, 2023, that she, along with the service members and civilians of recovery team one with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), reached a possible site of a pilot lost during the Vietnam War.
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) signed a Framework Arrangement with the Government of Indonesia March 21 that permits the first DPAA joint research and survey mission later this year of Americans missing from World War II in Indonesia.
The Republic of Korea held a repatriation ceremony to transfer remains believed to be an American from the Korean War to the United States for possible identification.
