Joint POW / MIA Accounting Command
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Joint POW / MIA Accounting Command |
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 JPAC emblem |
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| active | October 1, 2003 to January 30, 2015 |
| Country | United States |
| Armed forces | United States Armed Forces |
| Armed forces | (Theoretically all) |
| Type | Standing Working Group ( standing joint task force ) |
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| Strength | approx. 400 soldiers and civil employees |
| Insinuation | United States Pacific Command |
| Hickam Air Force Base - Headquarters | Oahu, Hawaii |
| motto |
Fulfilling Our Nation's Promise formerly Until they are home formerly Accounting For Americans Lost During Past US Conflicts |
| Command leadership | |
| Director | Kelly K. McKeague |
| Principal Deputy Director | Fern Sumpter Winbush |
| Deputy Director | Rear Adm. Jon C. Kreitz |
The Joint POW / MIA Accounting Command ( JPAC ) is a department of the Ministry of Defense of the United States . The task of the JPAC is the search for prisoners of war (English Prisoner of War , POW) and missing soldiers (English Missing in action , MIA) of members of the armed forces of the United States and their identification . The JPAC is organizationally subordinate to the United States Pacific Command and reports to its commanding general.
JPAC is headquartered in Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam , Hawaii . In addition, the JPAC has branches ( detachments ) in Bangkok ( Thailand ), Hanoi ( Vietnam ) and Vientiane ( Laos ). The JPAC has around 400 soldiers and civilian employees. The equipment includes a laboratory ( Central Identification Laboratory Operations ) for the identification of mortal remains.
The JPAC emerged from a working group established by the Ministry of Defense in 1997 , which was merged on October 1, 2003 with two laboratories that had been set up in 1973 in Thailand and in 1976 in Oahu (Hawaii). The main task in the context of the investigation is the investigation of all indications that could be used to find missing soldiers. If the evidence justifies it, a recovery mission will be undertaken, for which the JPAC has 18 recovery teams .
All body parts, human remains and technical artifacts such as aircraft debris recovered during such a mission are then examined in the laboratory in order to establish an identity if possible. Classical methods of anthropology such as conclusions from body parts regarding gender, size or age as well as modern methods such as DNA analysis are used for this purpose. After the successful completion of an examination, the next of kin will be informed of the details. The number of missing US soldiers (fallen / prisoners of war) is currently around 88,000, including around 78,000 from the Second World War , around 8,000 from the Korean War and around 2,000 from the Vietnam War . About half of them have a prospect of discovery and identification.
Web links
- Official website (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://www.dpaa.mil/About/Leadership/Article-View/Article/1301760/mr-kelly-k-mckeague/
- ↑ http://www.dpaa.mil/About/Leadership/Article-View/Article/633846/mrs-fern-sumpter-winbush/
- ↑ http://www.dpaa.mil/About/Leadership/Article-View/Article/1332832/rear-admiral-jon-c-kreitz/
- ↑ www.jpac.pacom.mil ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. JPAC Central Identification Laboratory (CIL). Accessed July 5, 2010
