Freedom of Information Archives - Megan Smolenyak https://megansmolenyak.com/tag/freedom-of-information/ genealogical adventurer & storyteller Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:33:13 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Genealogy Roundup, March 20 https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-march-20/ https://megansmolenyak.com/genealogy-roundup-march-20/#respond Wed, 20 Mar 2019 14:33:13 +0000 https://www.megansmolenyak.com/?p=160002 Did you know that besides genealogists like me, the DPAA team includes historians, analysts, investigators, combat medics, explosive ordnance disposal technicians, life support equipment specialists, forensic photographers, linguists, trained mountaineers, dive teams, forensic anthropologists and archaeologists, and more? Click through to see some of them in action!

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]]> Fulfilling our nation’s promise: DPAA brings service members home – This article does a good job of summarizing the efforts to repatriate those are still unaccounted for from past conflicts.

Reclaim The Records: Using Freedom of Information Laws for Genealogy

Georgia Army soldier accounted for from Korean War  – Welcome home, Cpl. James C. Rix. Honored to have researched your family.

Photo Credit: U.S. Army photograph by Staff Sgt. Michael O’Neal

The photo shows U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Jack DeMato and Master Sgt. Myung McBride, recovery noncommissioned officers on a Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) recovery team, shoveling mud during operations in Nghe An province, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, Dec. 2, 2018. The team deployed to the area in support of DPAA’s mission to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel to their families and the nation by searching for the remains of service members lost during the Vietnam War.

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