FORT MCCOY, Wis. — The sacred duties of mortuary affairs in the U.S. Army dates back to the Civil War. Since then, much has evolved, but the mission has remained the same; ensuring Soldiers receive a ...

Half a century later, the complex machinery assembled for that mission — cutting-edge labs, teams of motivated forensics and DNA experts, archaeologists, historians, and mortuary affairs case officers ...

Good morning on this Memorial Day. Half a century after this nation began going to extraordinary lengths to bring back the remains of the missing from the Vietnam War, the passage of time has changed ...

This story won the 2023 Society for Professional Journalists Dateline Award for feature story in a newsletter or trade publication. On a muggy Virginia morning, a petite soldier with dark brown hair ...

Maxwell Air Force Base - Airmen from the 42nd Force Support Squadron recently participated in a search and recovery exercise on March 28, designed to simulate the aftermath of a tornado strike, ...

Army Pvt. Leslie N. Dixon has graduated from basic combat training at Fort Jackson, Columbia, S.C. Dixon is the daughter of Joel Dixon of Houston and a 2003 graduate of Langham Creek High School, ...

FORT LEE, Va. – As the 54th Quartermaster Company commences theater-support operations in Southwest Asia – an overseas mission they haven’t been tasked with since 2016 – the unit will lean heavily on ...

By the early 1970s, the POW/MIA movement had convinced the federal government to go to extraordinary lengths to hunt for remains of Vietnam War troops missing in action and return them to grieving ...