{"id":33258,"date":"2012-12-17T04:00:28","date_gmt":"2012-12-17T08:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=33258"},"modified":"2015-02-06T16:26:35","modified_gmt":"2015-02-06T21:26:35","slug":"a-brief-public-service-announcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33258","title":{"rendered":"A Brief Public Service Announcement . . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s article yesterday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33253\">about the recovery of MOH recipient LTC Don Carlos Faith Jr\u2019s remains<\/a> brought to light something I didn\u2019t know \u2013 and which may not be common knowledge.\u00a0 Some of TAH\u2019s readers may be interested.<\/p>\n<p>The Joint POW\/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) is the DoD entity having the mission of accounting for US POWs\/MIAs.\u00a0 They often use maternal-line mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) in the identification of recovered remains.\u00a0 That much is fairly well-known.<\/p>\n<p>However, the JPAC also maintains lists of unaccounted for US personnel from three conflicts <i>for which they still need maternal-line mtDNA samples<\/i>.\u00a0 These lists are reportedly reasonably complete, and are available in PDF and Excel formats; the PDF versions are linked below:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/KoreanWar_Aug2012.pdf\">Korean War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/VietnamWar_Aug2012.pdf\">Vietnam War<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/ColdWar_Aug2012.pdf\">Cold War<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Excel versions of these lists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/index.php?page=frs&amp;exempt=2&amp;ind=4\">may be found here<\/a> under \u201cSearch\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the JPAC maintains a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/downloads\/FRS\/WorldWarII_Aug2012.pdf\">partial list of World War II unaccounted for personnel<\/a> for whom current investigations have a critical need for mtDNA samples.\u00a0 Unfortunately, the list from World War II is not complete due to the sheer magnitude of US personnel still not formally accounted for (78,000+) and the relatively limited scope of JPAC\u2019s work to date on World War II casualty cases.<\/p>\n<p>General contact information for JPAC <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/index.php?page=jpac&amp;size=100&amp;ind=5\">can be found here<\/a>; an explanation of who can give a useful sample <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/index.php?page=frs&amp;exempt=1&amp;ind=4\">can be found here<\/a>.\u00a0 If you or anyone you know have a relative who never came home, please consider seeing if you can help JPAC \u00a0find them.\u00a0 Even if you can\u2019t give the sample yourself, you may be able to help them locate someone who can.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone deserves a proper burial \u2013 if possible, in their homeland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jonn\u2019s article yesterday about the recovery of MOH recipient LTC Don Carlos Faith Jr\u2019s remains brought &hellip; <a title=\"A Brief Public Service Announcement . . . .\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=33258\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Brief Public Service Announcement . . . .<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":623,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,210,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-issues","category-no-longer-missing","category-veterans-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/623"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}