Thursday, April 30, 2009
A little something for the fashionable history buff
The Deputy Director sent out a link to this GQ article the other day about a JPAC (Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command) recovery mission on Palau. Turns out that the remains from the crash site were pretty much all recently ID'd with the help of AFDIL. Jimmie Doyle, the main focus of the article, was returned to his family and buried just this past weekend. No mention at all of AFDIL in the articles, but we certainly did do DNA work on these remains... guess DNA analysts and their labs just aren't as glamorous as those forensic anthropologists and their crazy recovery missions. *sigh*
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I usually look to GQ for my computer geek news, such as the Woz centerfold after his near triumph in Dancing with the Stars. Who knew they covered forensics, too! Great story.
Does AFDIL every communicate directly with the families? Seems to me the family would be especially interested in the DNA analysis. It should have been part of the story, anyway.
AFDIL itself mostly doesn't communicate directly with the families. Communication with the families is mostly up to the DPMO and the Casualty Affairs people. We see families at the family updates that the DPMO does throughtout the country and the analysts are occasionally invited to attend ID presentations to the families. Also, at the time the story was printed the DNA work on the case hadn't been finished (maybe not even intiated), so it wasn't a part of the story yet. We're used to being left out anyways.
Kyla, you're among the millions of other unsung heroes. Someone in a perfectly coiffed suit and hairsprayed hair always swoops in and claims all the glory.
That must be the problem, I go to work in jeans and wet hair...
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