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Missing Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen,
Marines, or Coast Guardsmen and their families deserve to be reunited on
American soil. DNA is the key to ensuring that families of the missing reach
closure.
The
goal of "Operation Missing Man NC" is to assist Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
(JPAC) in obtaining DNA samples from families of service members currently
listed as missing in action (MIA). Presently, there are 44 North Carolina
individuals listed as MIA from the Vietnam War, 201 from the Korean War and many
more from previous wars. JPAC has DNA samples from 30 of the Vietnam veteran
families and 136 samples from Korean War veteran families.
As of 25 June 2007
JPAC
Central Identification Laboratory
(JPAC CIL) has 12 sets of unidentified remains
from North Carolina, at its Hickam Air Force Base headquarters in
Hawaii. As each day passes, and each of us ages it becomes more and more
important to ensure that DNA that may help in future identification efforts of
missing servicemen is preserved, because without DNA there is no way to
positively identify current or future remains that are recovered.
The
information contained on this website is designed to reunite family and friends
with the remains of their missing loved ones. While our main focus is to locate
families of missing service members from North Carolina, we would be willing to
assist others with identifying resources to help them find their missing service
members. Feel free to email us at
info@operationmissingman-nc.org for
additional information.
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