U.S. military personnel and civilians assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) conduct a recovery mission in Austria from March 30 to April 30, 2021. DPAA personnel arrived to conduct excavation operations in an effort to find a U.S. service member lost from a P-38 lightning that crashed during World War II. DPAA’s Mission is to achieve the fullest possible accounting for missing and unaccounted-for U.S. personnel to their families and our nation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Melanye Martinez)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) announced the 300th identification of a previously unaccounted-for service member from the USS Oklahoma was made at the DPAA Laboratory at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska on Jan. 28.
“On Earth as it is heaven.”
It engulfed his mind as he stood there dirty, hungry and in pain. He struggled to hold his hands up against the wall. His knees shook as he spread his feet wide and tried with everything inside of him not to move a muscle, as he had just learned moments before moving resulted in a beating. He focused on those words in the Lord’s Prayer because it was all he could do in the moment. It gave him hope that it...
U.S. Air Force Tech Sgt. Christopher Cunningham shares his experiences about being an (LSI) Life support investigator on a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery mission in Laos.
