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  • Congressional staffers visit Dover AFB

    U.S. Air Force Col. Andrew Rohrer, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System director, gives a mission brief during a congressional staffer tour at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, Aug. 26, 2026. AFMES provides comprehensive forensic investigation, DNA identification, toxicology and mortality surveillance

  • Safety First: Protecting the People Behind AFMES' Mission

    While the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System is known for its critical forensic and medical examiner work, another mission happens behind the scenes every day: protecting the people who perform that work.From forensic pathologists and DNA analysts to laboratory technicians and medicolegal death

  • Marine to Medicolegal Death Investigator – Kera Mayfield

    “I feel sometimes like I was supposed to do this.”Raised in Paulding, Ohio, Kera Mayfield, Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) medicolegal death investigator (MDI), always knew that she wanted to be involved in criminal justice in some way.“I always wanted to be a detective,” said Mayfield.

  • AFMES supports Artemis II mission

    Human space flight presents itself with a myriad of unique challenges. A wide variety of factors and logistics must be considered just to make a mission happen and even more to make a mission successful. Ultimately, all of the logistics, planning, and training will go unnoticed after a successful

  • 92M: Army Fatality Management Specialists share AFMES experience

    The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) at Dover Air Force Base stands out among the Department of War as truly being one-of-one. It is the only place where multiple, very specific missions are conducted. Its missions include the Forensic Toxicology (FORTOX) laboratory, where biological

  • AFMES continually enhances joint MWD training

    Inside numerous walls, behind multiple doors, and protected by layers of various security measures, sits $3.5 million worth of seized narcotics from the Drug Enforcement Administration, stored in the Joint Military Working Dog Laboratory (JMWDL), within the Forensic Toxicology department of the

  • AFMES accelerates Colony Glacier mission

    It’s been 73 years since a C-124 Globemaster II, carrying 52 military members tragically crashed into Mount Gannett in the Chugach Mountains of eastern Alaska, forty miles from its destination of Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson.It’s believed that the crash created an avalanche that, in some places,

  • Brig. Gen. Babcock visits Team Dover

    U.S. Air Force Brig. Gen. Anthony Babcock, Air Mobility Command director of logistics, engineering and force protection, tours the 436th Maintenance Squadron C-5M isochronal inspection dock at Dover Air Force Base, Delaware, June 18, 2025. Babcock's visit to the 436th Airlift Wing included the 436th

  • Millions of Potential Stories

    Each and every individual that decides to join the United States Armed Forces has a definitive and different reason for choosing to serve their country. The first steps of that service, inevitably, is basic training. Every day, thousands of recruits go through basic training in various locations,

  • Advancements in the Identification Efforts for the Cabanatuan POW Camp

    The identification of missing service members, especially those who were Prisoners of War (POWs) in past conflicts, has profound impacts not only on the military community but especially on the living relatives of those lost. In many cases, the family members play key roles in identifying those