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Book DOD s POW MIA Mission

    Book Details:
  • Author : Brenda S. Farrell
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 2013-08-17
  • ISBN : 9781457847660
  • Pages : 87 pages

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.

Book Dods Pow Mia Mission

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  • Author : U.s. Government Accountability Office
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-08-03
  • ISBN : 9781974199198
  • Pages : 88 pages

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."

Book DOD s POW MIA mission

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:

Book Improving Recovery and Full Accounting of POW MIA Personnel from All Past Conflicts

Download or read book Improving Recovery and Full Accounting of POW MIA Personnel from All Past Conflicts written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Military Personnel and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reference Information Papers

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:

Book POW MIA Policy and Process

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 1454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Abandoned in Place

Download or read book Abandoned in Place written by Lynn M. O'Shea and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-04-18 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Abandoned in Place" provides a snapshot of the Vietnam POW/MIA issue. From the signing of the Paris Peace Accords, in January 1973, ending American involvement in the war in Southeast Asia to the "dysfunctional" POW/MIA accounting effort of 2014. With the period 1980 -1981 a clear line in the sand. As the U.S. government refocused its efforts from the rescue of surviving POWs to the recovery of remains. "Abandoned in Place" painstakingly details the intelligence available in 1980 that led to the conclusion American POWs survived in Laos, six years after the end of the Vietnam War. Using never before seen documents, the author reconstructs events leading up to a CIA reconnaissance mission, doomed from the start, to confirm the presence of POWs held deep in the Laotian jungle. As the CIA team headed toward the camp, members of the Joint Special Operation Command trained for a strike of surgical precision. Its mission rescue the POWs held at the camp known as Nhom Marrott. A lack of political will, bureaucratic failures, and leaks forced a stand-down order, condemning any surviving POWs. The author highlights the post Nhom Marrott government accounting effort, focusing on several specific POW/MIA cases. Crippled by a "mindset to debunk" officials ignored evidence of capture and survival in captivity. They edited witness statements to support pre-conceived conclusion of death and dismissed Vietnamese admissions of capture. This despite overwhelming evidence POWs not only survived but also continued to lay down signals in hopes of eventual rescue. Early Reviews - Col. Don Gordon (USA-Ret) Special Operations Command, J2 Director of Intelligence 1980-1983 - "O'Shea leads readers to form their own reasoned conclusions. She writes the most comprehensive and thoroughly researched compendium, private or government, classified or unclassified, about this complicated and emotional subject. It is an event long needed to be told accurately and with respect for the missing in action and their families. O'Shea is fidelis to that cause. She carefully distinguishes fact from speculation. Abandoned in Place is a meticulously detailed, thoroughly verified, and reliable story, well told. It describes plans to rescue about 35 United States Military servicemen strongly believed held in a prison camp in Laos in 1980. Step-by-step, O'Shea builds a strong case that some US military likely remained under North Vietnamese and Lao control after the war." Former Senator and Vice-Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs Bob Smith - "Lynn O'Shea has provided the best in depth analysis ever written and brilliantly combined over 25 years of personal research, evidence and a chronological portrayal of the facts to prove, without any doubt, that America left men behind in Southeast Asia at the end of the Viet Nam War. When we were told that the North Vietnamese, Lao and Viet Cong had complied with the Paris Peace Accords in 1973 and returned all of our men, the evidence shows that was an outright lie and many of our government leaders and the intelligence community knew it." Dr. Jeffrey Donahue, Brother of Major Morgan Donahue - "Lynn masterfully connects a mind-boggling array of dots to not only affirm the truth of the Indochina POW-MIA issue but also to rigorously convey how and why the U.S. government knowingly left men behind and then covered it up. Lynn has woven together tens of thousands of documents and countless hours of interviews to produce a cogent and unassailable profile of one of the most tragic episodes of modern American history. The how and why have never been so brilliantly researched, documented and conveyed."

Book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms

Download or read book Department of Defense Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms written by United States. Joint Chiefs of Staff and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Until the Last Man Comes Home

Download or read book Until the Last Man Comes Home written by Michael Joe Allen and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals how wartime loss in the Vietnam War transformed U.S. politics, arguing that the effort to recover lost warriors was as much a means to establish responsibility for their loss as it was a search for answers about their fate.

Book Air Force Combat Units of World War II

Download or read book Air Force Combat Units of World War II written by Maurer Maurer and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on 1961 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Surviving Hell

Download or read book Surviving Hell written by Leo Thorsness and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2011-04-19 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Capture-to-repatriation memoir of an U.S. Air Force combat pilot who spent six years as a prisoner of war in the infamous Hanoi Hilton during the Vietnam War.

Book Tap Code

Download or read book Tap Code written by Carlyle S. Harris and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2019-11-05 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover never-before-told details of POW underground operations during the Vietnam War told through one airman's inspiring story of true love, honor, and courage. Air Force pilot Captain Carlyle "Smitty" Harris was shot down over Vietnam on April 4, 1965 and taken to the infamous Hoa Lo prison--nicknamed the "Hanoi Hilton." For the next eight years, Smitty and hundreds of other American POWs--including John McCain and George "Bud" Day--suffered torture, solitary confinement, and unimaginable abuse. It was there that Smitty covertly taught many other POWs the Tap Code--an old, long-unused method of communication from World War II. Using the code, they could softly tap messages of encouragement to lonely neighbors and pass along resistance policies from their leaders. The code quickly became a lifeline during their internment. It helped the prisoners boost morale, stay unified, communicate the chain of command, and prevail over a brutal enemy. Meanwhile, back home in the United States, Harris's wife, Louise, raised their three children alone, unsure of her husband's fate for seven long years. One of the first POW wives of the Vietnam War, she became a role model for other military wives by advocating for herself and her children in her husband's absence. Told through both Smitty's and Louise's voices, Tap Code shares the riveting true story of: Ingenuity under pressure Strength and dignity in the face of a frightening enemy The hope, faith, and resolve necessary to endure even the darkest circumstances Praise for Tap Code: "Tap Code is an incredible story about two American heroes. Col. "Smitty" Harris and his wife, Louise, epitomize the definition of commitment--to God, to country, and to family. This tale of extreme perseverance will restore your faith in the human spirit." --Brigadier General John Nichols, USAF "The incomprehensibly long ordeal of the Harris family is agonizing. Their love, faith, loyalty, and courage epitomize all that is good about America." --Lt. Col. Orson Swindle, USMC (ret.), POW, Hanoi, 11/11/1966 to 3/4/1973

Book Linebacker II

Download or read book Linebacker II written by James R. McCarthy and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book You Are Not Forgotten

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  • Author : Bryan Bender
  • Publisher : Anchor
  • Release : 2014-05-20
  • ISBN : 0307946460
  • Pages : 370 pages

Download or read book You Are Not Forgotten written by Bryan Bender and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2014-05-20 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1944 Major Marion “Ryan” McCown Jr., an earnest young Marine Corps pilot, came under attack by enemy fire and went down with his plane, lost to the dense jungle of Papua New Guinea. Some sixty years later, Major George Eyster V would find himself in the same sweltering and nearly impenetrable rain forest searching for evidence of MIAs. Coming from a long line of military officers dating back to the Revolutionary War, army service was Eyster’s family legacy. After a disillusioning tour of duty in Iraq and almost ending his army career, he accepts a posting to JPAC instead, an elite division whose sole mission is to bring all fallen soldiers home to the country for which they gave their lives. While Eyster’s search for McCown proves difficult, what emerges at the end of the unforgettable mission is an inspiring true tale of loss and redemption.

Book The Long Road Home

Download or read book The Long Road Home written by Vernon E. Davis and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 613 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Special Operations Association

Download or read book Special Operations Association written by and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2006-01-31 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book A Missing Plane

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  • Author : Susan Sheehan
  • Publisher : G.P. Putnam's Sons
  • Release : 1986
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 220 pages

Download or read book A Missing Plane written by Susan Sheehan and published by G.P. Putnam's Sons. This book was released on 1986 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: