*HIGHLIGHTS*

2008 POW/MIA RECOGNITION DAY AND POSTER:
This year's POW/MIA Recognition Day was held on Sept. 19, the third Friday of the month. This is the traditional day of the month for that observance each year.   CLICK HERE for more information about the event. Images of the poster commemorating this event may be downloaded from this web site for viewing or printing by clicking HERE. To order larger sized posters online, you may CLICK HERE. If you prefer to order by regular mail send your requests to:
DPMO, Attn: Posters, 241 18th Street South, Suite 800 Arlington, VA 22202.
By phone call 703-699-1131. To order the larger posters by phone you may call 703-699-1131. For all requests, please specify your name, number of posters, mailing address and telephone number.

2009 FAMILY UPDATE CITIES ANNOUNCED:
The dates and cities for eight 2009 Family Updates and two Annual Government Briefings have been announced by DPMO. CLICK HERE to see the full schedule. Contact information for these updates may be found in the Family Information Section of this web site.

POW/MIA Bracelet Inquiries:
Members of the public often contact DPMO requesting information on serviceman for whom they wore a Vietnam War POW/MIA bracelet. They usually wish to contact the person or his family so they can send them the bracelet that they wore. Since we cannot provide the public with private addresses we have on file, we recommend forwarding a postage-affixed letter to the respective serviceman's casualty office (see links below) with a cover letter explaining the request. If the service casualty office has a current address, they will forward the letter to the serviceman or his family. At that point, the serviceman or family member may choose to contact the concerned citizen and provide them with an address to send the bracelet. There is no guarantee that this process will work. Many of the former POWs are no longer in contact with their service casualty office and this also applies to the families.

2008 CHINA ARCHIVES ARRANGEMENT:
U.S. and Chinese officials signed a document February 29, 2008, in Shanghai, China to formalize research in Chinese archives on Korean War POW/MIA matters. Ambassador Charles A. Ray, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs, signed the arrangement with Major General Qian Li Hua of the Chinese Ministry of National Defense. The arrangement outlines expected cooperation between the U.S. and China in researching the archives, which may shed light on Americans who were missing in action or held as prisoners of war in camps managed by the Chinese. CLICK HERE to read the English and Chinese versions of the document. CLICK HERE to read the follow-up arrangement that was signed on April 24, 2008, which described in more specific detail the types of Korean War documents to be examined, as well as general timelines and actions to be carried out by both sides.

LINKS TO MILITARY SERVICES:
If you would like to visit the Army, Navy, Air Force or Marine Corps POW/MIA websites, click on the icons below.

ARMY

NAVY

AIR FORCE

MARINE CORPS

CLICK HERE for detailed information on Service Casualty Offices Points of Contact

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