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Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office

Year
2015
Source
Wikipedia
Evidence
1
What the record says

The Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO), as part of the United States Department of Defense, was an organization that reported to the under secretary of defense for policy through the assistant secretary of defense (international security affairs). DPMO provided centralized management of prisoner of war/missing personnel (POW/MP) affairs within the Department of Defense. On January 30, 2015,…

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