The responsibility of search and recovery falls primarily on the Department of Defense. DOD’s Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command were some of the first created to identify and match service member remains with names. In early 2015, these organizations were merged to create a new government group, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency.

To learn more about this organization, continue to their website using the Website Address noted above.