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  • 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

  • AFDIL gets the SNP: A New Era in DNA Technology

    As if being a world leader in understanding and utilizing DNA wasn’t a high-enough achievement, the Department of Defense (DoD) DNA Operations division within the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES) has set the bar to a whole new level.For the record, as someone who graduated High School

  • Male lineage helps identify missing service members

    The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’s Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory briefed families of missing service members at the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s latest family member update in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, September 8, 2018.