{"id":66460,"date":"2016-06-26T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T12:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66460"},"modified":"2016-06-24T14:18:08","modified_gmt":"2016-06-24T18:18:08","slug":"two-more-are-accounted-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=66460","title":{"rendered":"Two More Are Accounted-For"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/OurMissing\/RecentlyAccountedFor.aspx\">DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><u>From World War II<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2022 Flight Officer Judson B. Baskett<\/strong>, 1305th Army Air Force Base Unit, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in Malaysia on 27 November 1945. He was accounted-for on 15 June 2016.<\/p>\n<p><u>From Korea<\/u><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>\u2022 CWO Adolphus Nava<\/strong>, B Battery, 38th Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division, US Army, was lost on 30 Novemer 1950 in North Korea. He was accounted-for on 22 June 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Welcome back, elder brothers-in-arms. Our apologies that your return took so long.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re home now. Rest in peace.<\/p>\n<p><strong>. . .<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over 73,000 US personnel remain unaccounted for from World War II; over 7,800 US personnel remain unaccounted for from the Korean War; and over 1,600 remain unaccounted for in Southeast Asia (SEA). Comparison of DNA from recovered remains against DNA from some (but not all) blood relatives can assist in making a positive ID for unidentified remains that have already been recovered, or which may be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>On their web site&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/Contact\/ContactUs.aspx\"><em>Contact Us<\/em><\/a>&#8221; page, DPAA now has FAQs. The answer to one of those FAQs describes who can and cannot submit DNA samples useful in identifying recovered remains. The chart giving the answer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dpaa.mil\/portals\/85\/Images\/DNA.jpg\"><em>can be viewed here<\/em><\/a>. The text associated with the chart is short and can be viewed in DPAA&#8217;s FAQs.<\/p>\n<p>If your family lost someone in one of these conflicts and you qualify to submit a DNA sample, please arrange to submit one. By doing that you just might help identify the remains of a US service member who\u2019s been repatriated but not yet been identified \u2013 as well as a relative of yours, however distant. Or you may help to identify remains to be recovered in the future.<\/p>\n<p>Everybody deserves a proper burial. That\u2019s especially true for those who gave their all while serving this nation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>(<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Note<\/span>: hat-tip to TAH reader <strong>chindonya<\/strong> for links to DPAA&#8217;s FAQ page and the chart of eligible DNA donors.)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DPAA has identified and accounted for the following formerly-missing US military personnel. From World War II \u2022 Flight Officer Judson B. Baskett, 1305th Army Air Force Base Unit, US Army Air Forces, US Army, was lost in Malaysia on 27 November 1945. He was accounted-for on 15 June 2016. 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