Retreat Ceremony pays tribute to POW/MIA members

Fallen Warrior: TSgt Allen Jones Avery

On September 26, 1997, the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Action Accounting Command (JPAC, now DPAA) identified the remains of Tech. Sgt. Allen Jones Avery, Vietnam veteran MIA.Native of Massachusetts, Avery was a member of the 37th Air Rescue and Recovery Squadron at Da Nang Air Base, Vietnam. On

Butterfly Release Ceremony honors Keesler's Fallen Heroes

Memorial run pays tribute to POW/MIA

Never forgotten: Keesler pays tribute to POW/MIA

Physically a prisoner, mentally a warrior

The soldier woke hours after the crash, dazed, in an out-of-body experience. She saw her own body covered by various parts of a UH-60 Black Hawk. She saw what she believed to be her death.“Wow, I’m dead,” she thought to herself. “I never thought about what it would be like to be dead.”She noticed a