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Air Force Missing Persons Branch
The branch serves as the liaison between government agencies and Air Force POW/MIA family members. Branch personnel administer the Air Force hostile and non-hostile missing persons program, and serve as a liaison between the Air Force, the U.S. government and the next of kin of all unaccounted for Air Force personnel.
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The Air Force Missing Persons Branch at AFPC collects, evaluates and disseminates to next of kin and other interested government agencies all information and reports concerning aircraft crash and grave site investigations or excavations, live sightings and refugee interviews.
They operate hand in hand with the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, International Security Affairs/Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office, Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Armed Forces DNA Laboratory, the Life Science Equipment Laboratory, the U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Division, the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency, and the Central Intelligence Agency. They also maintain contact with family organizations such as the National League of POW/MIA Families and the Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs.
These Air Force personnel respond to casualty-related congressional and other high-level inquiries, and write advisories for the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records.
The branch office serves as the focal point of contact for the next of kin of unaccounted-for service members from the Korean War, Cold War and the Vietnam Conflict, in addition to any current day operations. They maintain contact with about 3,000 family members. They have maintained contact with families of unaccounted-for Airmen over the years since the Korean War.
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Families of Americans unaccounted for from the Vietnam, Cold War and Korean War are invited to meet with officials from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office for informal briefings followed by a question-and-answer period. The purpose of these updates are to provide informal forums for information exchange between United States government officials and the families of unaccounted for Americans from our nation's wars. Contact the Defense POW/Missing Personnel office for details of dates and locations.
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Unaccounted-for military personnel statistics from the Korean, Cold and Vietnam wars as of 2009:
Total U.S. unaccounted-for: 9,901
Air Force unaccounted-for: 1,528
Korean War total: 8,046
Air Force: 910
Cold War total: 126
Air Force: 57
Southeast Asia total: 1,728
Air Force: 560
Libyan Raid
Air Force: 1
120 Air Force identifications were made between 2000-2009. The search for U.S. Airmen, Soldiers, Sailors and Marines continues every day. |
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The Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office is responsible for oversight of policies on the rescue of Americans who are isolated, captured, detained, or otherwise missing in a hostile environment and the recovery and identification of the remains of those who never returned from foreign battlefields.
The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command at Hickam AFB, Hawaii seeks to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts. |
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Total Force Service Center
Customer service
experts are available
24/7 to address all your
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(800) 525-0102
(210) 565-5000
DSN: 665-5000
NOTICE: The Total Force Service Center number for all regular Air Force, Air National Guard, Air Force Reserve, civilian Airmen and Air Force retirees is now 800-525-0102. This number is now available worldwide through the AT&T USA Direct global dialing code. |
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Air Force Missing Persons Branch
Monday - Friday
7:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. CST
(800) 531-5501
DSN: 665-3752
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