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The Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) hosted the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Director, Army Lt. Gen. Ronald Place, and the Senior Enlisted Leader of DHA, Army Command Sgt. Maj. Michael Gragg, at the Senator Daniel K. Inouye DPAA Center of Excellence at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Hawaii, in late Feb. 2021.
DPAA has the responsibility and authority to provide the fullest possible accounting of Department of Defense personnel that are missing from designated past conflicts.
"Ideally, every health care professional should treat the living with the same level of care, dignity and respect as DPAA does for our fallen," said Place. "I'm in awe of what you do; thank you for keeping the promise."
DHA, through the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System-Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFMES-AFDIL), supports the DPAA mission with a medical examiner assigned to DPAA and approximately 4,000 DNA tests conducted annually by AFDIL in support of identifications.