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right The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command (often referred to as JPAC) was a joint task force within the United States Department of Defense (DoD) whose mission was to account for Americans who are listed as Prisoners of War (POW), or Missing in Action (MIA), from all past wars and conflicts. It was especially visible in conjunction with the Vietnam War POW/MIA issue. The mission of the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command was to achieve the fullest possible accounting of all Americans missing as a result of the nation's past conflicts. The motto of JPAC was "Until they are home". On January 30, 2015, JPAC was officially deactivated by the Department of Defense. The Defense Department's efforts at reform followed a series of embarrassing scandals and damning revelations in reports and testimony before Congress starting in 2013 concerning failures in the effort to identify missing war dead. JPAC, the Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), and certain functions of the U.S. Air Force's Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory, were all merged into the new Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency. ==Structure== JPAC was a standing direct reporting unit within the United States Pacific Command. Its headquarters were located at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii. DPAA maintained three permanent overseas detachments, two local detachments, the Annex, Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, and the European Liaison Office located on Miesau Army Depot, Germany; all devoted to the ongoing tasks of POW/MIA accounting. Each detachment was under the command of a field grade officer of the United States armed forces. * Detachment 1 – Bangkok, Thailand (American Embassy in Thailand) * Detachment 2 – Hanoi, Vietnam * Detachment 3 – Vientiane, Laos * Investigation and Recovery Group – Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Oahu, Hawaii; this group was the home base of the recovery teams when they were not deployed * HQ – Pentagon, Arlington, Virginia. * DPAA Annex - Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska; the JCA performed routine anthropological and odontological analysis in order to identify unaccounted-for service members. * European Liaison Office - Miesau Army Depot, Germany; helped facilitate the planning, execution, logistical and administrative support for all Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command operations in the European Command area of responsibility. * The laboratory portion of DPAA referred to as the Central Identification Laboratory (CIL). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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