Modern DNA forensic analysis techniques are powerful. And they’re useful for more than law enforcement or medicine.<\/p>\n
Modern DNA analysis was used recently to identify the remains of SFC William T. Brown of La Habra, California<\/a>,SFC Donald M. Shue of Kannapolis, NC, and\u00a0SFC Gunther H. Wald, of Palisades Park, NJ.\u00a0 The three US soldiers disappeared after an ambush in South Vietnam in 1969 – 43 years ago.<\/p>\n All three were reported to have been injured\/wounded at the time. However, they could not be extracted during the ambush.\u00a0 A combination of enemy presence and weather precluded US forces from searching the site for 8 days after their disappearance.\u00a0 When US forces returned they located no bodies.<\/p>\n In any case: the MIA list from Vietnam is now Rest in peace, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Rest in peace.<\/p>\n ———<\/p>\n Update<\/strong>:\u00a0 the Army Times<\/em> article omitted the fact that remains of all three MIA soldiers have been recovered – not only SFC Brown’s – as well as the names of the other two MIAs.\u00a0 These other individuals were SFC Donald M. Shue of Kannapolis, NC, and\u00a0SFC Gunther H. Wald of Palisades Park, NJ.\u00a0 It also omitted the fact that a group burial of remains was scheduled in Arlington National Ceremony for the three on August 30, 2012.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ve edited the article to account for this new information.\u00a0 Hat tip to 2-17 AirCav for the reference to the additional information<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/del>three names shorter. That’s a good thing.<\/p>\n