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A rare Congressional hearing is asking the Defense Department how it plans to improve the recovery and accounting of the more than 84,000 Americans missing since World War II. Since 2000, an average of 76 missing servicemembers have been identified annually.
"That number of annual identifications is not consistent with a national priority of achieving the fullest possible accounting," said Rep. Joe Wilson (R-S.C.), the ranking Republican on the House Armed Services Subcommittee on Military Personnel, during a recent hearing.
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"If we do not do something to significantly increase the numbers of annual identifications--say, for example, by a factor of three, four or five--this will soon preclude the nation's ability to fully account for those 84,000 still missing or prisoners of war," he said. "We must...
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