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TERRA Search Promise has been completing POW/MIA research, recovery and repatriation missions since October 2020. Joining this unique mission allows Veterans to explore their service-connected past while influencing their own future.
“It is an honor for us to be involved in the global effort to bring our fallen comrades home to rest. We have a very real stake in the game,” said PJ Dermer, retired colonel and Terra Search Promise founder.
There are a variety of areas to serve from historical research to deployment. If your interests lie in military history, cultural and physical geography, archaeology, anthropology, project management, complex planning, logistics or leadership dynamics, please visit the Terra Search website for more information.
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I would like to do anything I can to help my fellow vets who are pow /mia
As a former Project 404 and Joint Casualty Resolution Center assignee, I welcome any true attempt to recover the remains of US Missing In Action from the Vietnam Era.The organization cited may or may not know but the Missing In Action from the cited war have been classified as: Deceased, Body Not Recovered or Deceased, Body Not Recovered.
Last year, I made a trip to the U.S. Embassy, Vientiane, Laos, to seek answers on why the remains of a RAVEN Forward Air Controller, US pilots on temporary duty in Laos, had not been recovered. Sadly, in my opinion, the failure of remains recovery has been and continues to be politics.
I truly hope your organization has integrity and honor and will disgrace the lives of our countrymen and great nation.
BILLY RAY WILSON
RETIRED AIR FORCE AIR OPERATIONS SUPERINTENDENT AND 100$ SERVICE CONNECTED VETERAN
DEFENDER OF THE US CONSTITUTION
This article makes no sense. How exactly are you assisting with “POW/MIA research, recovery and repatriation” at your local state VA?
I can take care of the MIA system for the VA and DIA/POW/MIA I know all of them.