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 Support Battalion, a German researcher, and other support to search for the remains of a missing World War II pilot. There are still approximately 2,123 unaccounted-for U.S. personnel missing in Germany. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Anthony Todd)
HAWAII – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and the University of Hawaii signed an Education Partnership Agreement on Aug. 19, 2025, establishing a collaboration that advances DPAA’s critical mission of identifying missing U.S. personnel while expanding educational and research opportunities for students and faculty.
HA TINH PROVINCE, Vietnam – A U.S. Navy hospital corpsman deployed as a short-term individual augmentee to support a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery mission in Vietnam from May 28 to July 7, 2025, found himself in the right place at the right time for mission success.
U.S. Navy Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Robert Bills IV, a deep sea independent duty corpsman, deployed alongside other service members and civilian contractors...
Thirty college STEM students from the Military Affairs Committee summer intern program toured the Daniel K. Inouye Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency Center of Excellence at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii, on June 27, 2025.
U.S. Army personnel assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency celebrated their branch’s 250th birthday at the DPAA Daniel K. Inouye Center for Excellence in Hawaii, June 13, 2025.
