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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

A new Defenselink Special Report titled "Honoring the Pledge" focuses on the Defense Department's endless efforts to account for the 88,000 servicemembers still missing from past wars. AFPS reporter Fred W. Baker III visited the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office in Virginia and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii. He then travelled to Germany to an excavation site where a recovery team searched for the remains of a downed World War II fighter pilot.

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A new Defenselink Special Report titled "Honoring the Pledge" focuses on the Defense Department's endless efforts to account for the 88,000 servicemembers still missing from past wars. AFPS reporter Fred W. Baker III visited the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office in Virginia and the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command in Hawaii. He then travelled to Germany to an excavation site where a recovery team searched for the remains of a downed World War II fighter pilot.

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