The Air Force Missing Persons Branch at the Air Force Personnel Center serves as the liaison between government agencies and Air Force Gold Star Prisoners of War/Missing in Action family members. Branch personnel administer the Air Force hostile and non-hostile missing persons program, and serve as a liaison between the Air Force, the U.S. government and the next of kin of all unaccounted-for Air Force personnel.
The Air Force Missing Persons Branch collects, evaluates and disseminates to next of kin and other interested government agencies all information and reports concerning Airmen who are unaccounted-for from our nation's conflicts.
The Missing Persons Branch operates hand in hand with the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Armed Forces DNA Laboratory, U.S. Air Force Mortuary Affairs Operations and the Defense Intelligence Agency. It also maintains contact with family organizations such as the National League of POW/MIA Families and the Coalition of Families of Korean and Cold War POW/MIAs. These Air Force personnel respond to casualty-related congressional and other high-level inquiries, and write advisories for the Air Force Board for Correction of Military Records.
The Missing Persons Branch serves as the focal point of contact for the next of kin of unaccounted-for service members from the Korean War, Cold War and the Vietnam Conflict, in addition to any current day operations. The office has maintained contact with families of unaccounted-for Airmen over the years since the Korean War and currently maintains contact with about 3,500 family members.