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Operation of research, investigation, recovery and identification and supporting functions. director mccabe strives to provide the fullest possible accounting of our missing personnel the director along with his colleagues dr. john byrd, the defence p.o.w. and miaking agency and director timothy mcmann have joined us to take questions on this topic. after this i will be back up to address other questions. >> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. the august 1st repatriation and homecoming in hawaii of the remains of the korean war unaccounted for was a pointed manifestation of the commitment se...

Fulfilling this commitment has undoubtedly provided a sea of hope. last week, over 700 of these family members gathered in arlington, virginia to receive government updates and they were resoundedly appreciative of the successful advocacy of the president and his administration. two of those family members who attended, charles and larry mcdaniel were the recipients of their father of indiana. it was a sole personal fit returned by the north koreans. the remains of those 55 cases are well into the painstaking multi--faceted al analyses by dr. john byrd and his forensic science team in half. in...

Statewide, but he has support. and in the function, director mckeg strives to provide the fullest possible accounting of the missing personnel. the director along with his colleague dr. john byrd, the defense p.o.w./m.i.a. director and dr. timothy mcmahon head of d.o.d. and operations have joined us today to take your remarks on this topic. and after that, we will be back up to address the questions and the news of the day. >> thank you, sarah. >> ladies and gentlemen, good afternoon. the august 1st repatriation of the remains inma -- in hawaii of the korean returned was ak cured by presiden...

Of fulfilling this commitment has undoubtedly provided a seed of hope. last week over 700 of the family members gathered in arlington, virginia, to receive government updates and that i were resoundingly appreciative of the successful advocacy of the president and his koreans. the remains of the 55 cases are well into the painstaking and multi faceted analyses by dr. john byrd and the phren is sick science team in hawaii and in the coming week, dr. tim mcmahon and his dedicated dna specialists in delaware will begin their meticulous test iin the mettle of the scientists and the capability of t...

Critical, the families of 90% of the missing have given dna samples that can be used to make identifications. spain went to that of the story, i'll be filling in for martha maccallum and i talked exclusively with dr. john byrd who is leading that forensic anthropology team to come up with some of these answers that you and i are learning about. and he said that because of the climate of north korea versus someplace like vietnam, there is what he called components of preservation that happened in north korea, it's a cold climate, it's a drier climate, we know vietnam being a wet and hot one. an...