A personality feature on U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Ariel Owings, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) forensic photographer. With a military family background, including a grandfather who served during WWII, Owings tells the story of her journey to DPAA and the influence her background has had on her decision to join.
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.