Download or read book DOD s POW MIA Mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dods Pow Mia Mission written by U.s. Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-08-03 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "DOD reports that more than 83,000persons are missing from past conflictsin Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, thePersian Gulf, and World War II.Several DOD organizations, known asthe accounting community, have a rolein accounting for the missing. Between2002 and 2012, DOD accounted for anaverage of 72 persons each year. In2009, Congress mandated DOD toincrease its capability and capacitysuch that the community could accountfor at least 200 missing personsannually by 2015. The law also addedall World War II losses to the list ofconflicts for which DOD wasresponsible, thus increasing fromabout 10,000 to 83,000 the number ofmissing persons for whom DOD mustaccount. A committee reportaccompanying the National DefenseAuthorization Act for Fiscal Year 2013mandated GAO to review DOD'sefforts to address the accounting-forgoal. GAO assessed DOD's capabilityand capacity to accomplish the missingpersons accounting mission. In doingso, GAO analyzed guidance andrequirements, discussed accountingefforts and the structure of thecommunity with community members,and surveyed accounting communitymembers and related entities."
Download or read book DOD s POW MIA Mission written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2013-08-17 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dept. of Defense (DOD) reports that more than 83,000 persons are missing from past conflicts in Vietnam, Korea, the Cold War, the Persian Gulf, and World War II. Several DOD organizations, known as the accounting community, have a role in accounting for the missing. Between 2002 and 2012, DOD accounted for an average of 72 persons each year. In 2009, Congress mandated DOD to increase its capability and capacity such that the community could account for at least 200 missing persons annually by 2015. This report reviewed DOD's efforts to address the accounting-for goal and assessed DOD's capability and capacity to accomplish the missing persons accounting mission. It found that the mission is being undermined by longstanding leadership weaknesses and a fragmented organizational structure. Includes recommendations. Tables and figures. This is a print on demand report.
Download or read book Dod s POW MIA Mission written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-01-05 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD's POW/MIA MISSION: Top-Level Leadership Attention Needed to Resolve Longstanding Challenges in Accounting for Missing Persons from Past Conflicts
Download or read book DOD s POW MIA mission written by and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 82 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Dod s Pow MIA Mission written by United States Government Accountability Office and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-14 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DOD's POW/MIA Mission: Capability and Capacity to Account for Missing Persons Undermined by Leadership Weaknesses and Fragmented Organizational Structure
Download or read book DOD s POW MIA mission written by Brenda S. Farrell and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 14 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Reference Information Papers written by National Archives (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1955 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book POW MIA Policy and Process written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 774 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book POW MIA Accounting written by Paul M. Cole and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-04-17 with total page 882 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an insider’s account of the search for missing American servicemen who became trapped in the Soviet Union and the US government’s efforts to free them or discover their fates. The book, which is based on years of work as a consultant to the US government, includes archive research that took place in Russia and four other republics of the Soviet Union as the USSR broke apart. Volume I explores the history of missing American servicemen, with particular emphasis on thousands who were not accounted for during the Korean War and Cold War era. As US relations with Russia and North Korea become more intense, this book is an extremely timely resource for scholars, laymen, and policymakers.
Download or read book What Remains written by Sarah E. Wagner and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2020 Victor Turner Prize in Ethnographic Writing Nearly 1,600 Americans are still unaccounted for and presumed dead from the Vietnam War. These are the stories of those who mourn and continue to search for them. For many families the Vietnam War remains unsettled. Nearly 1,600 Americans—and more than 300,000 Vietnamese—involved in the conflict are still unaccounted for. In What Remains, Sarah E. Wagner tells the stories of America’s missing service members and the families and communities that continue to search for them. From the scientists who work to identify the dead using bits of bone unearthed in Vietnamese jungles to the relatives who press government officials to find the remains of their loved ones, Wagner introduces us to the men and women who seek to bring the missing back home. Through their experiences she examines the ongoing toll of America’s most fraught war. Every generation has known the uncertainties of war. Collective memorials, such as the Tomb of the Unknowns in Arlington National Cemetery, testify to the many service members who never return, their fates still unresolved. But advances in forensic science have provided new and powerful tools to identify the remains of the missing, often from the merest trace—a tooth or other fragment. These new techniques have enabled military experts to recover, repatriate, identify, and return the remains of lost service members. So promising are these scientific developments that they have raised the expectations of military families hoping to locate their missing. As Wagner shows, the possibility of such homecomings compels Americans to wrestle anew with their memories, as with the weight of their loved ones’ sacrifices, and to reevaluate what it means to wage war and die on behalf of the nation.
Download or read book Department of Defense s Challenges in Accounting for Missing Persons from Past Conflicts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rescue Mission Report written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Special Operations Review Group and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Defense Relations Between the United States and Vietnam written by Lewis M. Stern and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2005-08-24 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the hostilities of the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the diplomatic repercussions lasted for several more decades. Eventually, however, the dedicated perseverance of diplomats on both sides paid off. In November 2003, Major General Pham Van Tra, defense minister of the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, met with U.S. defense secretary Donald Rumsfeld in the halls of the Pentagon, signaling a new era in U.S.-Vietnamese defense relations. This book traces the development of that relationship in the years since the Vietnam War. It focuses especially on the 1990s, a decade in which the author served as country director for Indochina, Thailand and Burma in the Office of the Assistant U.S. Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. His experience adds a personal perspective to the historical and political record. Multiple facets of the relationship between the two countries are addressed, including trade, immigration of Amerasian children, and POW-MIA concerns. Through this honest depiction of the sometimes fractious and confusing policy-making process, Stern shows how both parties came to agree, in the words of Major General Tra, that we "should not allow the future to repeat the past."
Download or read book The Mayaguez Crisis Mission Command and Civil military Relations written by Christopher Jon Lamb and published by Office of Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff. This book was released on 2018 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface -- Abbreviations -- Key figures in the Mayaguez Crisis -- Introduction -- Day one: Monday, May 12 -- Day two: Tuesday, May 13 -- Day three: Wednesday, May 14 -- Day four: Thursday, May 15 -- Critical crisis decisions -- Explaining decisions, behaviors and outcomes -- Refining the explanation: rationality, bureaucracy and beliefs -- Findings, issues, prescriptions -- Conclusion.
Download or read book Safely Rest written by David Colley and published by Berkley Publishing Group. This book was released on 2005-08 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From 1945 to 1950, the United States returned 178,000 dead American servicemen back home and reburied another 80,000 in overseas cemeteries at their families' request. Never before had a nation returned so many of its fallen warriors from distant battlefields. But another 78,000 servicemen were missing in action, their bodies never to be found, their families never to know the peace of closure. Safely Restrecalls this virtually forgotten episode of WWII through the recollections of the survivors and the letters and histories of the dead themselves. It tells of those who struggled to absorb their loss and rebuild their lives-and of those who would never be able to move on. Most memorably, it tells of Lt. Jesse D. "Red" Franks, Jr.--first reported missing, then dead, then alive-and of his extraordinarily devoted father, who gave up everything to work as a missionary in war-torn Europe for years until he discovered what truly happened to his son. If World War II was the "Great Crusade," then its dead are the true heroes of the war. And this is their story.
