JOINT POW/MIA ACCOUNTING COMMAND (JPAC)
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RELEASE NO. # 05-32
Sept. 1, 2005
JPAC TEAMS DEPLOY TO SOUTH KOREA
HICKAM AFB, HAWAII - Recovery and investigative teams from the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command deployed this week from Hawaii to conduct operations in South Korea to search for and bring home remains of Americans still missing from the Korean War.
Teams will deploy for approximately 30 days. The recovery team is expected to exhume at least four graves purportedly of American service members buried during the war. Meanwhile, an IT is conducting investigative operations relating to at least two dozen cases associated with missing service members.Ê
Today, there is one American missing from the Gulf War, more than 1,800 from the Vietnam War, 120 from the Cold War, more than 8,100 from the Korean War, and more than 78,000 from World War II.
The U.S. Government, the Department of Defense and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command are committed to scientific excellence and the fullest possible accounting of all Americans still missing as a result of our nationÕs conflicts.