Official U.S. Government website for the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA). Our mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel to their families and the nation.

Soldiers designated with Captive, Missing, or Missing in Action (MIA) status are entitled to receive the pay and allowances to which entitled when the status began or to which the Soldiers later...

The Defense POW/MIA Agency remains relentless in its mission to provide the fullest possible accounting to their families and the nation, until they're home.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency's mission is to provide the fullest possible accounting for our missing personnel from past conflicts to their families and the nation. Within this mission, we search for missing personnel from World War II (WWII), the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Cold War, the Gulf Wars, and other recent conflicts.

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is an agency within the U.S. Department of Defense whose mission is to recover and identify unaccounted Department of Defense personnel listed as prisoners of war (POW) or missing in action (MIA) from designated past conflicts, from countries around the world.

The POW Medal is to be issued only to those U.S. military personnel and other personnel granted credible U.S. military service who were taken prisoner and held captive:

2025年3月26日 · A team from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency searched for missing World War II airmen in France to fulfill the nation's promise to account for all of those who are missing and return them...

The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) is a Defense Agency within the Department of Defense (DoD) and receives annual funding through the DoD, Defense-Wide (DW), Operation and Maintenance (O&M), and Procurement (PROC) Appropriations. The DPAA budget for Fiscal Year 2023 is $150 Million.

As of May 2023, 81,000 service members are missing from conflicts dating back to World War II. U.S. service members assigned to the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) participate in a...

Each year, the third Friday of September is a day set aside to remember the more than 83,000 U.S. service members who remain classified as either prisoners of war or missing in action. National POW/MIA Recognition Day was established in 1979 through a proclamation signed by President Jimmy Carter.