{"id":62882,"date":"2015-11-21T08:00:12","date_gmt":"2015-11-21T13:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=62882"},"modified":"2015-11-27T07:06:06","modified_gmt":"2015-11-27T12:06:06","slug":"two-more-return-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62882","title":{"rendered":"Two More Return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DPAA has been busy recently.  Since my article yesterday on the subject,<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/OurMissing\/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx\"><em>DPAA has announced the identification and accounting for the following formerly-missing US military personnel<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From Korea<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>SGT Robert C. Dakin<\/strong>, L Company, 3rd Battalion, 31st Infantry Regiment, 7th Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 12 December 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted for on 16 November 2015.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">From Vietnam<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">\u2022 <strong>PFC Kenneth L. Cunningham<\/strong>, 225th Aviation Company, 223rd Aviation Battalion, 17th Aviation Group, 1st Aviation Brigade, US Army, was lost on 3 October 1969 in Vietnam. He was accounted for on 13 November 2015.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re no longer missing, elder brother-in-arms.  Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n<p>Rest in peace.  You&#8217;re home now.<\/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). Comparison of mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) from recovered remains against mtDNA from a matrilineal descendant can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>DPAA&#8217;s web site now has what appears to be <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Families\/ContactInformation.aspx\">a decent &#8220;Contact Us&#8221; page<\/a><\/em>. The page doesn&#8217;t have instructions concerning who can and cannot submit a mtDNA sample or how to submit one, but the POCs listed there may be able to refer you to someone who can answer that question &#8211; or may be able to answer the question themselves. If you think you might possibly qualify, please contact one of those POCs for further information.<\/p>\n<p>If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a mtDNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who&#8217;s been repatriated but not yet been identified &#8211; as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPAA has been busy recently. Since my article yesterday on the subject,DPAA has announced the identification &hellip; <a title=\"Two More Return\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=62882\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two More Return<\/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-62882","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\/62882","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=62882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}