The following updates are provided courtesy of the Joint POW/MIA
Accounting Command Public Affairs office. For more information about
JPAC, visit us online at www.jpac.pacom.mil.
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1. Multiple JPAC teams consisting of approximately 94 personnel departed
Hickam AFB during the first two weeks of June to conduct recovery,
investigative, and research and investigative operations in Vietnam and
the Republic of Korea.

Vietnam: Five recovery teams, one investigative team, and one research
and investigative team will conduct operations associated with multiple
ground and airplane crashes throughout the country. This is the 89th
Joint Field Activity in Vietnam.

Republic of Korea: An team consisting of seven JPAC personnel will
conduct investigations associated with losses from the Korean War
through June 30. This is JPAC's third mission to the Republic of Korea
for fiscal year 2007. The team is searching for information relating to
missing Americans held as POWs in villages and towns from Hwach'on to
Kimwha.  In the spring of 1951, communist forces marched over 3,800
captives through the area.  Of these captives, there are more than 200
Americans who remain missing.

Evidence gathered from both missions will be transferred to the JPAC
Central Identification Laboratory for further analysis and
identification.

2. The Department of Defense announced the identification of a Navy
pilot missing from the Vietnam War on May 29. Please see (link) to read
the full news release from the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel
Office. http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/news/2007/Newell.pdf