Download or read book Government Accountability Office Review of the Prisoner of War Missing in Action POW MIA Community and the Restructuring of These Agencies as Proposed by the Department of Defense written by United States. Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-12-03 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Government Accountability Office review of the prisoner of war/missing in action (POW/MIA) community and the restructuring of these agencies as proposed by the Department of Defense : hearing before the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives, One Hundred Thirteenth Congress, second session, hearing held July 14, 2014.

Download or read book Government Accountability Office Review of the Prisoner of War Missing in Action POW MIA Community and the Restructuring of These Agencies As Proposed by the Department of Defense written by Subcommittee on Military Personnel of Th and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-02-16 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Last year the Subcommittee on Military Personnel held a hearing that highlighted the dysfunction and the challenges that plagued the POW/MIA accounting community within the Department of Defense. As a result, Secretary Hagel asked Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low-Intensity Conflict Lumpkin to lead the effort to resolve the many issues that confront this community. The Secretary proposed to establish a single defense agency to consolidate and coordinate the vast activities that fall under the purview of the POW/MIA accounting community. While the consolidation and the establishment of a defense agency is a positive first step, it is important for us to understand what the final agency will be comprised of; how will the transformation and the consolidation of activities, personnel, and resources be accomplished, and what the timeline for these actions will be; and what is really a fair timetable for the Department to accomplish the proposal, and for the Congress and the American people to be able to hold the agency accountable for the increased transparency with respect to the reporting and identification of POW and the MIA.

Download or read book Government Accountability Office Review of the Prisoner of War missing in Action POW MIA Community and the Restructuring of These Agencies as Proposed by the Department of Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Government Accountability Office Review of the Prisoner of War missing in Action POW MIA Community and the Restructuring of These Agencies as Proposed by the Department of Defense written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2015* with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 United States of America Congressional Record written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 620 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Mismanagement of POW MIA Accounting written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Financial and Contracting Oversight and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Annual Report on the Activities of the Committee on Armed Services for the Congress written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Assessment of the Department of Defense Prisoner of War Missing in Action Accounting Community written by Kennet P. Moorefield and published by . This book was released on 2014-12-09 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The objective of this report was to assess the Department of Defense's (DOD/s) programs and practices concerning the identification and repatriation of the remains of the Nation's missing in action (MIA) from past armed conflicts. This includes the overall accounting community organization and effectiveness, issues raised about possible inappropriate official travel, and allegations made by past and present personnel assigned to the mission concerning poor leadership and mismanagement. The report also assessed the administation of programs carried out by the Defense Prisoner of War (POW)/Missing Personnel Office, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), and other members of the accounting community that have impeded or could impede its ability to accomplish the identification and repatriation mission. It found that the community has not been able to reach its full potential to perform effectively and efficiently nor to meet the long-standing expectations of the surviving family members still hoping for closure. Includes recommendations. Figures. This is a print on demand report.

Download or read book POW MIA s written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs. Subcommittee on Asian and Pacific Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Hearing on Americans Missing Or Prisoner in Southeast Asia the Department of Defense Accounting 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 1392 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 POWs and MIAs written by Robert L. Goldich and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There has been great controversy about U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) during (and in one case after) the Cold War. While few people familiar with the issue feel that any Americans are still being held against their will in the remaining communist countries, more feel that some may have been so held in the past in the Soviet Union, China, North Korea, or North Vietnam. Similarly, few believe there was a conspiracy to cover up live POWs, but few would disagree with the statement that there was, at least during the 1970s and 1980s, U.S. government mismanagement of the issue. Normalization of relations with Vietnam exacerbated this longstanding debate. Normalization's supporters contend that Vietnamese cooperation on the POW/MIA issue has greatly increased. Opponents argue that cooperation has in fact been much less than supporters say, and that the Vietnamese can only be induced to cooperate by firmness rather than conciliation. Those who believe Americans are now held, or were after the war ended, feel that even if no specific report of live Americans has thus far met rigorous proofs, the mass of information about live Americans is compelling. Those who doubt live Americans are still held, or were after the war ended, argue that despite vast efforts, only one live American military prisoner remained in Indochina after the war (a defector who returned in 1979). The U.S. government says the possibility of Americans still being held in Indochina cannot be ruled out. Some say Americans may have been kept by the Vietnamese after the war but killed later. Increased U.S. access to Vietnam has not yet led to a large reduction en masse in the number of Americans still listed as unaccounted for, although this may be due to some U.S. policies as well as Vietnamese non-cooperation.

Download or read book Oversight Hearings written by United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 1772 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Inspection of the Defense Prisoner of War Missing in Action Office written by and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Inspector General, Department of Defense, conducted an inspection of the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Office (DPMO) during October and November 1994. The inspection was a joint venture by the Program Evaluation Directorate and the Inspections Directorate, Office of the Assistant Inspector General for Inspections, Office of the Inspector General, DoD. The goal of the inspection was to evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of the administrative processes and mechanisms used by the DPMO. The project was requested by the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/MIA Affairs. We are providing the Deputy Assistant Secretary two reports, one of which is the August 1995 Program Evaluation Directorate evaluation concerning the DPMO requirements determination and planning efforts. This inspection report contains our evaluation of civilian and military personnel management, diversity management, contract management, financial management, information resources management and information systems security. We also reviewed the DPMO internal management control program. The DPMO is a DoD Field Activity established under the authority, direction, and control of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Affairs. The DPMO goal is to attain "the fullest possible accounting for those still missing, and repatriating all recovered remains of Americans who died serving our Nation. We found that the DPMO had taken some positive steps to respond to mission requirements such as a faster response to, and tracking of, congressional tasking on POW/MIA issues and Freedom of Information Act requests. However, we determined that certain internal administrative processes needed improvement in the following areas.

Download or read book POWs and MIAs Status and Accounting Issues written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report summarizes numbers of U.S. prisoners of war (POWs) and service members missing in action (MIAs) lost during the Vietnam War (1961-1973) and the Korean War (1950-1953), compares these losses to other 20th century American wars, and describes the POW/MIA investigation and policy process. It discusses reports asserting that some POWs from these wars were not returned to U.S. control when the wars ended, and that some of these individuals may still be alive. Further, it discusses Americans possibly captured by communist countries during Cold War incidents, or after being liberated from German POW camps at the end of World War II, and whether any such Americans could still be alive. It also summarizes POW/MIA matters and controversies related to post-Cold War U.S. military operations, particularly the 1991 Persian Gulf War; the ongoing Operation Enduring Freedom that began on October 7, 2001, when the United States began combat operations against the Taliban regime in Afghanistan; and Operation Iraqi Freedom that began on March 19, 2003. Finally, the report describes legislation and congressional oversight concerning the POW/MIA issue.

Download or read book Until They All Come Home written by and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Explains that three separate organizations -- the Defense Prisoner of War Missing Personnel Office, the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command and the Air Force Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory -- were merged over the last year to form a single organization, the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Agency (DPAA). In laying out the particulars of some of what the DPAA has accomplished, this paper demonstrates how the merger has allowed for better oversight of case research, recovery operations and family communications. Americans owe a great deal to the servicemembers who gave the ultimate sacrifice to protect their freedom; DPAA is dedicated to ensuring that they are not forgotten"--Publisher's web site.