{"id":57798,"date":"2015-01-23T11:45:33","date_gmt":"2015-01-23T16:45:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=57798"},"modified":"2015-01-23T12:15:54","modified_gmt":"2015-01-23T17:15:54","slug":"six-come-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57798","title":{"rendered":"Eight Come Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/accounted_for\/\">two US MIAs from World War II; three US MIAs from Korea; and three US MIAs from Southeast Asia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Pvt Jack M. Redman<\/strong>, Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment, USMC, was lost 20 November 1943 on Tarawa.\u00a0 He was accounted for 20 December 2014.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dtic.mil\/dpmo\/news\/news_releases\/2014\/documents\/release_mathis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Maj. Peyton S. Mathis<\/strong><\/a>, 44th Fighter Squadron, 13th Fighter Command, US Army Air Forces, was lost 5 June\u00a0 1944 in the Solomon Islands. He was accounted for 16 October 2014.\u00a0 (The author regrets missing the earlier announcement of Maj. Mathis&#8217; identification.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>SGT Joseph M. Snock, Jr.<\/strong>, Heavy Mortar Company, 31st Infantry Regiment, US Army, was lost 30 November 1950 in North Korea.\u00a0 He was accounted for 5 January 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>PFC Norbert G. Hurt<\/strong>, A Company, 32nd Infantry Regiment, 31st Regimental Combat Team, US Army, was lost 2 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for 20 October 2014. (The author regrets missing the earlier announcement of PFC Hurt&#8217;s identification.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>CPL Robert Higgins<\/strong>, C Battery, 15th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost 13 February 1951 in South Korea.\u00a0 He was accounted for 6 January 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Col. William E. Cooper<\/strong>, 469th Tactical Squadron, 388th Tactical Fighter Wing, USAF, was lost 24 April 1966 in Vietnam.\u00a0 He was accounted for 22 December 2014.<\/li>\n<li><strong>SFC Class James W. Holt<\/strong>, C Company, 5th Special Forces Group, US Army, was lost 7 February 1968 in Vietnam.\u00a0 He was accounted for 10 January 2015.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Capt. David Chorlins<\/strong>, 602nd Special Operations Squadron, 34th Tactical Group, USAF, was lost 11 January 1970 in Laos.\u00a0 He was accounted for 17 January 2015.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>All will be buried with full military honors.\u00a0 Information on individual funeral arrangements is not currently available.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re no longer missing, my elder brothers-in-arms.\u00a0 Welcome home; rest now in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA).\u00a0 Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in providing a positive ID for those recovered remains.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, JPAC has recently reorganized their web site; they no longer seems to provide by-name lists of the MIAs for whom there is a need for mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) samples to assist in possible identification of remains.\u00a0 So if you have a relative that is still MIA from World War II, Korea, or SEA \u2013 please consider\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpac.pacom.mil\/Portals\/64\/Documents\/Fact%20Sheets\/DNA%20Role%20of%20Human%20Identification.pdf\">reading this JPAC fact sheet<\/a>\u00a0to see if you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample.<\/p>\n<p>If you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample and have a relative from World War II, Korea, or SEA who is still MIA, please contact JPAC (there is an 866 number on the flier linked above) and see if they already have a mtDNA sample for your missing relative.\u00a0 If not, please arrange to submit a sample.\u00a0 By submitting a mtDNA sample, you may be able to help identify US remains that have been recovered and repatriated but not yet positively identified.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial.\u00a0 That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPMO has announced the identification of two US MIAs from World War II; three US MIAs &hellip; <a title=\"Eight Come Home\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=57798\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Eight Come Home<\/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":[210],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57798","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-no-longer-missing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798","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=57798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57798\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}