Hospital Corpsman Senior Chief Paul Ryan Fischer who has worked as a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) independent duty corpsman for over a year with a medical scope of practice approaching that of a physician’s assistant, sits in the courtyard of the largest forensic laboratory in the world, a DPAA facility located on Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) during an interview where he described the scope of his duties and past missions in South Korea and an upcoming one in Vietnam. On a DPAA recovery mission, five independent medical providers and four medics provide preventive health and medical screening before the recovery mission and emergency and routine medical services while deployed. DPAA has been described as an organization that keeps one inviolable promise – that the fallen will never be forgotten. After more than 75 years, this promise was kept for another service member and his family. In December 2024, U.S. Navy Seaman 2nd Class John C. Auld, a Sailor who perished aboard the USS Oklahoma (BB 37) during the Dec. 7, 1941, attack on Pearl Harbor was honored and buried in Albuquerque, New Mexico, fulfilling DPAA’s mission to provide the fullest possible accounting for service members’ families and the nation. (U.S. Navy photo by Melvin J. Gonzalvo)
| Date Taken: | 02.04.2025 |
| Date Posted: | 03.03.2025 20:19 |
| Photo ID: | 8896111 |
| VIRIN: | 250204-N-KN989-1004 |
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| Location: | HONOLULU, HAWAII, US |
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