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POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony

POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony which took place in Honolulu, HI on September 19th, 2025.

Taken: 09.19.2025 | Video by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher

DPAA conducts Disinterment Ceremony

11.24.2025 | Photo by Sgt. Anthony Todd

U.S. service members from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency prepare for honors during a disinterment ceremony at the National Memorial...

Funeral for U.S. Navy Capt. Thomas E. Scheurich at...

11.14.2025 | Photo by Sgt. Ashleigh Maxwell

A Sailor from the U.S. Navy Ceremonial Guard presents the National Flag to the family of U.S. Navy Capt. Thomas E. Scheurich during his funeral...

DPAA Laboratories completes annual proficiency testing

10.31.2025 | Photo by Seaman Lawrence Whaley III

Dr. Bill Belcher, former Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency laboratory deputy director, gives a material evidence lecture at the Daniel K. Inouye...

DPAA Laboratories completes annual proficiency testing

10.30.2025 | Photo by Seaman Lawrence Whaley III

Dr. Rebecca Taylor, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency forensic anthropologist supervisor, takes a lab proficiency test at the Daniel K. Inouye...

26-1VN Recovery Teams Host Nations

10.30.2025 | Photo by Cpl. Stephen Holland

Starting Oct. 30, 2025, two Vietnamese unilateral recovery teams began efforts at two complex recovery sites in Vietnam to look for missing...

25-4 Papua New Guinea Repatriation Ceremony

09.24.2025 | Photo by Cpl. Stephen Holland

U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sgt. Jordyn King, a team sergeant, and Sgt. Patrick Shearer, a transmissions systems operator, both with the Defense...

DPAA Conducts Disinterment Ceremony

09.22.2025 | Photo by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher

U.S. Marine Corps Master Sgt. Nathanael Skousen, operations chief, Indo-Pacific directorate, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, renders honors...

Day 4: DPAA and LABANOF host fourth Scientific...

09.20.2025 | Photo by Senior Airman Kathy Duran

Kieren Hill, International Commission on Missing Persons DNA laboratory manager, briefs during the fourth Scientific Summit at the University of...

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POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony

09.19.2025 | Video by Staff Sgt. Austin Boucher

POW/MIA Recognition Day Ceremony which took place in Honolulu, HI on September 19th, 2025.

25-1DE Excavation Process

08.13.2025 | Video by Sgt. Anthony Todd

U.S. Air Force Airmen 1st Class Joshua Clunan, a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency short-term individual augmentee avionics systems journeyman...

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2, Part 3

08.08.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2, Part 4

08.08.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2, Part 1

08.08.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2, Part 2

08.08.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 2

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 1, Part 4

08.07.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 1.

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 1, Part 2

08.07.2025 | Courtesy Video

DPAA Korea/Cold War Annual Gov't Brief Day 1.

DPAA completes annual lab proficieny testing

11.18.2025 | Story by Seaman Lawrence Whaley III

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has completed annual lab proficiency testing, reaffirming the agency’s commitment to the highest standards...

From Computer Science Student to DPAA Forensic...

09.30.2025 | Story by Staff Sgt. David Busby

At the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, some of the sharpest minds in the U.S. dedicate their skills to the recovery of missing U.S. personnel,...

Digging Deep: University of Arizona ROTC Cadets...

09.22.2025 | Story by Seaman Lawrence Whaley III

POLAND – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recently piloted a unique partnership with the University of Arizona’s Army Reserve Officers’...

DPAA and LABANOF host the 2025 Scientific Summit in...

09.20.2025 | Story by Senior Airman Kathy Duran

MILAN, Italy – The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, in partnership with the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology and Odontology, also known as...

DPAA Laboratories renews accreditation

09.15.2025 | Story by Seaman Lawrence Whaley III

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency has successfully renewed its accreditation from the American National Standards Institute National...

Educational Partnership Agreement between the...

08.20.2025 | Story by Cpl. Stephen Holland

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.

One Mission, Two Flags: Honoring the Past, Together

07.25.2025 | Story by Staff Sgt. Keion Jackson

In May and June 2025, the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) and South Korea's MAKRI collaborated on a joint mission to recover the...

US, Vietnam Team Returns Possible Remains of...

07.25.2025 | Story by Staff Sgt. Taylor Crul

Members of the 25-3VN Underwater Recovery Team, working alongside the Vietnamese Office for Seeking Missing Persons, Vietnam Detachment 2, and...

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