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  • 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,

  • 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

  • AFMES-AFRSSIR inspects Lackland Air Force Base

    The Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples of the Identification of Remains inspected Lackland Air Force Base, Texas, on the collection of DNA cards November 8, 2018.The AFRSSIR is responsible for managing, coordinating and maintaining the collection of DNA blood reference cards for all active

  • 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.