Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (POW/MIA)

Welcome to the home page of the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO). The information assembled on the following pages is to assist readers in understanding the U.S. Government effort to achieve the fullest possible accounting of our missing in action -- from all wars. U.S. military and civilian personnel are at work daily in locations across the globe, seeking information from our former enemies. The information here is the result of years of painstaking analysis and intelligence reporting. Additional case-specific information, both classified and unclassified, is available to the primary next-of-kin of our missing Americans.

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OUR VISION

Develop, implement, and maintain a joint system for live recovery of isolated personnel, rapid post-hostility accounting and remains identification.

OUR MISSION

Exercise policy, control and oversight within the Department of Defense of the entire process for investigation and recovery related to missing persons (including matters related to search, rescue, escape and evasion), coordinate for DoD with other departments and agencies of the US on all matters concerning missing persons, and establish procedure to be followed by DoD boards of inquiry and by officials reviewing the reports of such boards (Missing Persons Act).

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Personnel Recovery, Archival Research, FOIA, Glossary, Links, What's New?
Special Items: DNA Information, POW/MIA Recognition Day
Database Reports: Cold War, Vietnam War, Korean War

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