Don’t you, dear readers, think that it’s about time to send back home or give, at least, to past fallen comrades, a well deserved rest place and reduce this terrible listing called : The Army Personnel Missing in Action ?
Let me show you this following text before I start to explain the problem that we are facing every day in the Belgian-German Part of the country or if you prefer the German-Belgian part of my country.
What is Personnel Recovery ?
The number one priority of our government is recovery. American service personnel are deployed globally, resulting in our need to bring our men and women home alive anytime, anywhere. DPMO provides policy oversight for the mission to recover captured, missing, or isolated men and women placed in harm’s way while serving our Nation in hostile situations. These actions, defined as personnel recovery, are the sum of military, civil, and political acts needed to gain the release or rescue of our men and women.
Today, DPMO coordinates throughout DoD and the inter agency community on the full range of policy matters dealing with all aspects of personnel recovery. Individuals isolated from friendly forces have a better chance to survive if properly trained and equipped. Our labor provides a policy framework that helps to ensure proper training of our warriors. Of course, those who become isolated from friendly forces during combat require us to locate, monitor, and recover them.
DPMO works to create systems for these critical steps. Returning our missing to their loved ones and units alive involves rapid recoveries. We coordinate efforts within DoD and the inter agency community to improve our nation’s recovery capabilities. This includes developing and implementing policy governing search, rescue, escape, and evasion.
(Note from Gunter) In fact, as the wounded are still in a position where they are still able to yell it’s not a problem.
Open debate helps DoD to incorporate the lessons we learn from experience. This has helped eliminate the idea that personnel recovery is primarily an Air Force task. From experience, we know that each service must work with the others to make successful recoveries. This need for a joint focus on recovery issues prompted DoD to merge three groups to provide operational expertise and guidance on personnel recovery to the war fighter. Called the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA), this agency works for the US Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) to promote a unified view of personnel recovery.
DPMO works closely with JPRA, the Joint Staff, the Services and combatant commands to coordinate policy and advance important issues pertaining to personnel recovery.
These initiatives greatly increase our ability to keep the promise to bring home safely our men and women who become isolated in harm’s way. They increase the protection provided to Americans placed in harm’s way thus saving their families unnecessary anguish. Additionally, this work helps prevent the exploitation of our men and women by adversaries. Recent recoveries of pilots isolated in dangerous areas highlight the value of our current recovery measures. Units specially trained and dedicated to recovery operations have proven their worth. As a result, far fewer families in recent conflicts have been left with the anguish of unanswered questions about the fate of their loved one.
(Note from Gunter) This might be working and of course this work because the Army in every of its branches has many respect for the soldier.
What about these guys now ?
What about these one ?
These are (USA) 1000′s, (German) 10000′s (Russia) (100000s) still laying around on our battlefields.
What I have found in the last 30 years :
- 1983 : (Wallerscheid – Belgium), 2, bodies, US, 3 arms, 1 foot, half skull, but after 2 days hard work in a 30-M circled area, nothing available for a positive identification. (Bodies were correctly buried and rendered to the Belgian ground)
- 1984 : (Krinkelterwald – Belgium) 18 Waffen SS Panzer Grenadier from 12. SS Panzer Division in the Krinkelterwald (shot down by Sgt Lopez 23rd/2ID). Case passes over to the German, bodies recovered and buried into a Military Cemetery (Vossenack)
- 1985 : (Nijmegen – Holland) : 1 complet US crew from a C-47 Skytrain with inside the complet Airborne trooper stick (18 Paratroopers US 101st). Case passed over to officials, recovered, re-burried in Military Cemtery.
Also found 6 complete German Paratroopers (passed over officials) - 1986 : (Petit-Thier – Belgium) 2 German Sturman Boots with foot inside and part of legs. No positive identification, bodies correctly re-burried in the Belgian ground.
- 1987 : (Rodt – Belgium) 1 German Helmet with the skull inside and remains of probably 4 or 5 different German soldiers scattered over a circle of 50-M. No positive identification, remains correctly assembled re-buried and rendered to our Belgian ground.
- 1988 : (Eupen – Belgium) 1 Lockheed P-38 Lightning with the pilot still inside (plane crash 1944) US Mortuary Called but today I still doesn’t know what happened to that pilot.
- 1988 : (North Sea – Belgium) (Diving) 1 B-17 Ball Turret with a complete soldier inside but weather went bad, we had to left and never find it again
- 1994 : (Luxembourg) Crashed P-40 Thunderbolt. That plane burned to ashes and (after 4 days) we didn’t find any evidence that there was a pilot in it. I took the engine back home and am waiting to find a Museum interested in it.
- 2009 : (In der Heimat)(Krinkelt) On informations from the USA, in Krinkelterwald to recover an already buried men of the 2nd Infantry Division. Got yelled at me from a kind of Nazi Waffen SS from Bullingen (German-Belgian-Forestery), told him to shut is fucking kraut mouth and left while I was ready at 180°.
I don’t know what would have happen if I hald told that bastard that I was searching for a German Waffen SS of the 12. SS Panzer Division but as soon as I told I was searching for an American missing he really didn’t like this. (see what I mean with Belgian part of Germany and German part of Belgium) … - 2009 : (France) Called from the USA to help recovering bodies on a B-17 crash site, part in a strange and still mystery Military affair from 1944, I walked on something that cracked, looked at and discovered 2 frontal part of a Congressional Medal of Honor Winner.
This is the most terrible thing that can happen to someone like me.
The worst in this case is that there is on the Earth only such a place in the entire History of the United States Army : 2 CMH Winner who died at the same time at the same spot. And bones are laying around…
Now I am asking American Readers, Civilians, Politicians or Military, to past this text over to whom it may concern in a way to become a (free) part of recovery of missing soldiers in FR-BE-NL-LU-DE and also get the requested form and papers to allow me to do it.
Action requested NAW
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