Missing And Not Forgotten

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families.

In the second episode about Marine Capt. Ron Forrester, who went missing on Dec. 27, 1972, while serving as an A-6A Intruder navigator and bombardier on a mission over north Vietnam and was accounted for Dec. 4, 2023, we talk to Army Capts. Dave Kim and Will Ryan, two of the DPAA Recovery Team Leads who led recovery missions to find Capt. Forrester in Vietnam.

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: JTRZNBDSDZJ3XM3Z

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families.

This episode begins a three-episode service member arc about Marine Capt. Ron Forrester, who went missing on Dec. 27, 1972, while serving as an A-6A Intruder navigator and bombardier on a mission over north Vietnam, and was accounted for Dec. 4, 2023. We start off his arc talking to his daughter, Karoni Forrester, about her journey to find her dad.

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: JTRZNBDSDZJ3XM3Z

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families.

In this episode, we talk with Dr. Tim McMahon, the director of Dept. of Defense DNA Operations, about how DPAA partners with the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System’s DNA Identification Laboratory to use DNA as one of the most important lines of evidence with which we make identifications of the missing.

Video Story from a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery mission in Papua New Guinea, September 10, 2024. This mission sought to recover missing personnel from World War II, of which there are approximately 72,000 unaccounted for.

B-roll package showcasing the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency’s (DPAA) 24-1GB recovery operations from July to September 2024 in England. DPAA personnel worked together with short term individual augmentees from U.S. Army and Air Force units; 1st and 10th Cavalry Regiment, 91st Brigade Engineer Battalion, 786th Civil Engineering Squadron, 86th Dental Squadron, 606th Air Control Squadron, 86th Airlift Wing Public Affairs, 52nd Medical Group. All mission personnel combined their knowledge and skills to advance progress in achieving the fullest possible accounting of missing personnel during the more than 60-day recovery mission. There are approximately 72,000 missing personnel from World War II in the United Kingdom of Great Britain, the Republic of Ireland and the surrounding European and Mediterranean area. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Morgan L. R. Burgess)

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families.

This is the third of three episodes in which we will talk about Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who was lost as a prisoner of war during the Korean War and accounted for March 2, 2021. This episode features Ray Kapaun, Chaplain Kapaun's nephew and primary next of kin. He talks about what the chaplain was like in his hometown of Pilsen, Kansas, his service, and his possible road to sainthood.

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: QWYYI7ERDRAWGROA

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American personnel still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families.

This is the second of three episodes in which we talk about Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who was lost as a prisoner of war during the Korean War and accounted for March 2, 2021. This episode features Dr. Veronica Keyes, DPAA's out-going Korean War Identification Project lead, and Kristen Grow, the in-coming KWIP lead, who will talk about the DPAA laboratory and the science behind the chaplain's identification.

Music:

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: AVZL4RNKVPAYUAZC

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families. Our Congressional mandate ranges from our modern conflicts of the past 20 years to the Vietnam and Korean Wars, the Cold War, and back to World War II.

This is the first of three episodes in which we will talk about Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who was lost as a prisoner of war during the Korean War and accounted for March 2, 2021. This episode features Dr. Dawn Berry, DPAA’s Korean War Chief of Research, who will talk about the role agency historians played in the chaplain’s identification.

Music:

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: 2Y0HMRWVSNW83HT0

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families. Our Congressional mandate ranges from our modern conflicts of the past 20 years to the Vietnam and Korean Wars, the Cold War, and back to World War II.

This is the first of three episodes in which we will talk about Army Chaplain (Capt.) Emil Kapaun, a Medal of Honor recipient who was lost as a prisoner of war during the Korean War and accounted for March 2, 2021. This episode features Dr. Dawn Berry, DPAA’s Korean War Chief of Research, who will talk about the role agency historians played in the chaplain’s identification.

Music:

Song: Man Of War

Artist: Aaron Paul Low

Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!):

https://uppbeat.io/t/aaron-paul-low/man-of-war

License code: 2Y0HMRWVSNW83HT0

“Missing And Not Forgotten” is the official podcast of the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. Our mission is to find, recover, and identify American service members still missing from our past wars and conflicts and return them to their families. Our Congressional mandate ranges from our modern conflicts of the past 20 years to the Vietnam and Korean Wars, the Cold War, and back to World War II. In this first episode, host Sean Everette talks to DPAA's Director, Kelly McKeague, about the agency and what they do to fulfill our Nation's promise to never leave a fallen service member behind.