DPMO Personnel AccountingThe United States government is committed to obtaining the fullest possible accounting for Americans held captive or otherwise missing from our nation's ongoing and past conflicts, to prepare and train personnel who may become isolated and to recover those who become missing in the future. When American personnel remain captive, missing, or otherwise unaccounted-for at the conclusion of hostilities, the DoD accounting community becomes the responsible agent for determining the fate of the missing and where possible, recovering them alive or recovering and identifying the remains of the dead. For those killed-in-action, the accounting community is charged with locating, recovering and identifying their remains. More than 88,000 Americans remain missing from World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War, and the Vietnam War. To accomplish this goal, DPMO develops and recommends policy guidance on personnel accounting, oversees the implementation of existing policies and provides the accounting community with oversight and coordination. DPMO also conducts research, analyzes information and investigates the cases of missing personnel. The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is the operational agency responsible for worldwide investigations, recoveries, and identifications. JPAC's Central Identification Laboratory, the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology's Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory, and the Air Force's Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory provide identification and other scientific support to the accounting mission. The personnel accounting mission encompasses five key processes and two supporting functions that are common for all conflicts.Key Processes
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ALL STATES Can Help Make the Description for POW/MIA's designations POW and MIA
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Danny "Greasy" Belcher, Executive Director I just received the following from Carolyn Maupin, mother of Iraq POW Matt Maupin who was murdered in captivity. Thank you New Hampshire leaders for walking point on this. You have done what everyone has talked about. You took action and paved the way for all of the other states to follow. GOD bless NH. I will now start working on getting the following piece of legislation passed in Kentucky. I challenge all veteran leaders, veteran organizations, and those who care to start today copying the following petition and ask your state senators and representatives/delegates to sponsor and pass this in your state. We all have talked enough. it is for a show of support for our POW/MIAs. we can pass this in ALL states if anyone cares in these states. What would you do if someone you loved went missing in a war? You would do everything you could do. Working to pass this is as simple as getting up and doing it. The beer, bingo, and BS can wait. It is time to fight for our POW/MIAs. The information below came from Susan Peterson to Carolyn Maupin who forwarded to me. It's official, the State of NH is the first state in the Union to pass and enforce a bill that states that the only recognizable description for POW/MIA's is the designations POW and MIA. The governor signed it into law this morning in front of a group of about 75-100 people, and in addition he signed our POW/MIA petition that will go to the President and Congress asking them to direct the DOD to restore this designation. The Governor also announced that he will be sending a letter to the President on this matter, and in addition will be asking the the Chairman of the National Governors Association to present this to all Governors. Senator Jack Barnes, has drafted a letter asking the same that he will be sending to all the governors and some Congressional leaders. On the petition signed by the Governor also appears the signatures of Reps Baldasaro, Boisvert, Sprague and Emiro, Senators Barnes and Fuller-Clark, Mary Morin of the NHVC, and two WW II former POW's. Below you will find copies of the Bill, the passed legislation and the Governors proposed letter. This is not the end, this is just the opening shot. Contact veterans and Veterans groups all over the country and ask them to support the petition, make one of their own if they want, and ask their State Legislatures to do the same. Now I know a similar petition was done by some groups in the past, but it was addressed to President Bush, and went nowhere. Just because you signed that previous petition does not mean you have done your part, it just means you support the request and we hope that you will sign a new petition and continue the fight. Till they all come home! |
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06-2022 09/04 SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION 4 A RESOLUTION urging Congress to require the Department of Defense to reinstate the terminology of “POW” or “Prisoner of War” into the classification of military personnel. SPONSORS: Sen. Barnes, Dist 17; Sen. Johnson, Dist 2; Sen. Letourneau, Dist 19; Sen. Kenney, Dist 3; Rep. Emerson, Ches 7 COMMITTEE: Public and Municipal Affairs ANALYSIS This senate joint resolution urges Congress to require the Department of Defense to reinstate the terminology of “POW” or “Prisoner of War” into the classification of military personnel. 06-2022 09/04 STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE In the Year of Our Lord Two Thousand Six A RESOLUTION urging Congress to require the Department of Defense to reinstate the terminology of “POW” or “Prisoner of War” into the classification of military personnel. Be it Enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: Whereas, for many years in the past the Department of Defense used the terminology of “Prisoner of War” to describe a military personnel’s casualty status and category for reporting purposes; and Whereas, the Department of Defense’s current verbiage of “Missing/Captured” dramatically reduces the impact of reports and alters the responses from national and international organizations which have historically interceded in such cases; and Whereas, the nature of war has changed markedly and permanently and rather than change accordingly to provide maximum protection of all we send in harm’s way, our government has established requirements that are too specific to be workable, too vague to be applicable, or too confusing to achieve understanding; and Whereas, the protection which should be automatically accorded those in harm’s way is seriously eroded with the “Missing/Captured” classification; and Whereas, American service men and women are not disposable items and their security and well-being are more significant than the concerns, goals, sensitivities, and idiosyncrasies of our enemies, or of any other nation; now, therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court convened: That the state of New Hampshire calls upon Congress to require the Department of Defense to reinstate “Prisoner of War” into the casualty status and category classification of military personnel; and That copies of this resolution be transmitted by the senate clerk to each member of the New Hampshire congressional delegation. Approved: April 25, 2006 http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/legislation/2006/sjr0004.html |
On July 17, 2007 , Gov. Lynch signed into AN ACT relative to the display of the POW-MIA flag. 1 Display of POW-MIA Flag. Amend RSA 3:3-a to read as follows: 3:3-a Display of POW-MIA Flag. The POW-MIA flag shall be displayed above the state house in Concord, all state facilities, and national guard armories and other state-owned military facilities whenever the flag of the United States is flown until all questions concerning the fate of America’s POWs and MIAs are sufficiently resolved. |
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Gov. John Lynch signing
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Sen. Jack Barnes presents the Chairman of the Judical committee Sen. Foster with the pen used to sign SB27 into law. |
