{"id":36529,"date":"2013-07-08T06:18:26","date_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:18:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=36529"},"modified":"2013-07-08T06:18:26","modified_gmt":"2013-07-08T10:18:26","slug":"pentagons-mia-search-dysfunctional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=36529","title":{"rendered":"Pentagon’s MIA search “dysfunctional”?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Several of you have sent us a link to an Army Times<\/a> article about the Associated Press research on an internal investigation that DoD did on it’s own Missing In Action operations to recover the remains of service members who haven’t been accounted for from the Korean and Vietnam Wars. The report found that those recovery operations were “dysfunctional”, and in some cases, corrupt;<\/p>\n

The report paints a picture of a Joint POW\/MIA Accounting Command, a military-run group known as JPAC and headed by a two-star general, as woefully inept and even corrupt. The command is digging up too few clues on former battlefields, relying on inaccurate databases and engaging in expensive \u201cboondoggles\u201d in Europe, the study concludes.<\/p>\n

In North Korea, the JPAC was snookered into digging up remains between 1996 and 2000 that the North Koreans apparently had taken out of storage and planted in former American fighting positions, the report said. Washington paid the North Koreans hundreds of thousands of dollars to \u201csupport\u201d these excavations.<\/p>\n

Some recovered bones had been drilled or cut, suggesting they had been used by the North Koreans to make a lab skeleton.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yeah, so who would have thought that our former, and in some cases, current, enemies would force us into situations we might otherwise avoid? North Koreans like our cash money, so why wouldn’t they delight in manipulating our agencies into pouring more into their dysfunctional economy? The same goes for the Vietnamese. <\/p>\n

I think it’s less the fault of the DoD and more the fault of the circumstances under which they labor. We’ve seen a large number of missing returned and interred back in this country over the past few years, and I think we should be more surprised at that than we are over the fact that Pentagon agencies are working under corrupt circumstances. In this case, I don’t think that DoD is at fault for money we’re wasting. It’s probably more the fault of the politicians, like John McCain and John Kerry, who have forced us to operate under these political conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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