FPP181 - Keeping Promises: Finding our MIA with Project Recover

Fighter Pilot Podcast

E. Vincent "Jell-O" Aiello, Retired U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot

History, Personal Journals, Technology, Society & Culture, Government, Leisure, Aviation

4.9 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2023

⏱️ 63 minutes

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Summary

More than 81,000 American service members remain listed as 'missing in action' from conflicts dating back to World War 2.

This week, retired U.S. Marine Derek Abbey, PhD, explains how Project Recover enlists 21st century science and technology to find and repatriate those missing in order to provide recognition and closure for families and the nation.

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0:00.0	As a service member, we never leave a colleague behind. It's important when we make a promise to our service members that we keep that promise.
0:08.0	And so for future generations when they are towing that line, knowing that they have the entire nation behind their back to support them and their family should they fall in battle. Last one, last one, another one, another stand line,
0:24.0	single station.
0:25.0	Roger Hatton.
0:26.0	It's on, Rich Yaw,
0:27.0	Wait, somebody got hit on the road,
0:29.0	500 damages, get out of here.
0:30.0	There's nothing to determine!
0:32.0	Don't find me, boys. Did you know that more than 16 million Americans served during World War II and that today
0:39.6	eight decades later more than 72,000 are still listed as missing in action.
0:44.8	Hello and welcome to the Fighter Pilot Podcast. I am your host Vincent Iello Call
0:49.0	Signello and joining me to discuss one of the agencies working to help bring our boys back home is Derek Abbey PhD.
0:55.8	Cosmo welcome to the show sir.
0:57.8	Thanks for having me. It's a joy to be here jello.
0:59.8	Good well I'm really looking forward to unpacking Project Recovery,
1:03.0	and we have a video we're going to show about it,
1:05.0	but what can you tell us before we take a look at this trailer?
1:07.0	So Project Recovery is a non-profit organization.
1:09.0	It's been around for three decades that our focus is on searching for locating and ultimately
1:14.3	repatriating American missing in action from our previous wars. And I mentioned 72,000
1:18.6	from World War II but what there's over 81,000 in all the conflicts?
1:22.3	81,000 from all the conflicts?
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