Members from a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency recovery team and local Lao workers, work together to recover a fallen service member the Vietnam War in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, Nov. 12, 2024. Since 1985, the United States and Lao governments have worked closely together to find and recover unaccounted-for American personnel. There are currently 1,574 missing and unaccounted-for Americans from the Vietnam War. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Megan Ozaki)
The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) marked a significant milestone with the 100th identification from the World War II Cabanatuan prison camp in the Philippines.
With the Sept. 9, 2024, accounting of Army Corporal Billie Charles Driver, 18, from Dallas, Texas, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency marked the identification of the 700th missing personnel from the Korean War.
