Member Statements

• Ranking Member Claire McCaskill D (MO)
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• Senator Kelly Ayotte R (NH)
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Agenda

The purpose of the hearing was to review the Defense Department’s accounting for missing personnel.  The hearing focused on the Department’s financial management and oversight of its accounting mission. The hearing also examined the roles and responsibilities of the Joint Prisoner of War/Missing in Acting Accounting Command (JPAC), the Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Person Personnel Office (DPMO), the Central Identification Laboratory (CIL), and the Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory.

Witnesses

• Major General  Kelly K. McKeague

  Commander

  Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command
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• Major General  W. Montague Winfield, Ret.

  Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for POW/Missing Personnel Affairs

  Director, Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
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• John A. Goines

  Chief, Life Sciences Equipment Laboratory

  United States Air Force
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