DNA Lab Helps Return Servicemembers to their FamiliesWASHINGTON, Sept. 30, 2008 – Thumb-tacked to the inside of Jennifer
O'Callaghan's office cubicle is a picture of Marine Capt. William Francis Mullen. On her desk is a red metal bracelet engraved with his name, and the date the fighter pilot went missing.
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Historians Piece Puzzle Together for Missing TroopsWASHINGTON, Sept. 22, 2008 – Before any American recovery team sets foot on foreign soil in search of missing servicemembers' remains, historians at the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command must painstakingly piece together the servicemembers' final moments in the hopes of pinpointing their location.
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Leaders Pledge Support on POW/MIA DayWASHINGTON, Sept. 19, 2008 – On a small parade field at the steps of the Pentagon and across the river from the skyline of the nation’s capital, top military and political leaders today pledged to continue looking for missing servicemembers no matter the cost.
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Agencies Search For, Bring Home Missing TroopsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2008 – Hundreds of military troops and civilians are going about the business of bringing missing servicemembers from past wars home, one by one.
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Command Identifies Missing Soldiers' RemainsWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2008 – Until six years ago, U.S. Navy Seaman Apprentice Thomas Hembree, who was killled in the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, laid in a grave marked "unknown" at the national cemetery there. Now, his family knows where "Uncle Tommy" is because of the work of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command.
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JPAC Teams Serve on Front Lines of RecoveriesWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2008 – Tech. Sgt. Valda Wilson is an Air Force photographer. But last month in a harvested wheat field in the village of Strass near Germany's Hurtgen Forest, she spent most of her days with her hands full of dirt, looking for the remains of a servicemember.
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U.S. Military Vows to Bring Every Troop HomeWASHINGTON, Sept. 18, 2008 – No U.S. servicemembers are now listed as missing or captured during operations in Afghanistan. One U.S. soldier is currently listed as missing-captured in Iraq. The remains of three other U.S. soldiers who had been reported as missing-captured in Iraq were recovered and identified earlier this year.
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