A soldier from a graves registration unit attempts identification of a skull during World War II
Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation for burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel. The human remains of enemy or non-friendly persons, are collected and returned to their respective governments or affiliations.
The Air Force has a similar facility at Dover AFB in Delaware, manned by the Army's Mortuary Affairs Personnel.
Until 1991, the army's mortuary affairs was known as the Graves Registration Service (GRS or GRREG).[1] The Graves Registration Service was created several months after the United States entered World War I.
The current Army Military Occupational Specialty for the career field is 92A (a general code for officers across the Quartermaster Corps) with a 4-Victor qualification course completion and 92M for enlisted personnel.
MortuaryAffairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the recovery, identification, transportation, and preparation...
Force MortuaryAffairs Operations (AFMAO) is a U.S. Air Force mortuaryaffairs unit located in the Charles C. Carson Center for MortuaryAffairs at Dover...
remains and personal effects to the Theater Mortuary Evacuation Point (TMEP) and can operate a MortuaryAffairs Decontamination Control Point (MADCP) when...
diagram showing where the bodies were discovered. Glass, Maj. Scott T. "MortuaryAffairs Operations at Malmedy — Lessons Learned from a Historic Tragedy". MacDonald...
development, production, acquisition, and sustainment of general supply, MortuaryAffairs, subsistence, petroleum and water, and material and distribution management...
before being transferred to family. The Charles C. Carson Center for MortuaryAffairs has also been used to identify remains of civilians in certain exceptional...
MIAs. Missing in action Operation Desert Storm MortuaryAffairs Charles C. Carson Center for MortuaryAffairs Palaidis, George C. (16 February 2004). "Search...
Recommendations" (PDF). United States Navy. Navy Casualty, Entitlements and MortuaryAffairs Office (OPNAV (N135C)). Archived from the original (PDF) on 17 October...
Command Public Affairs (28 June 2007). "ASC selects LOGCAP IV contractors". Department of the Army. Retrieved 14 January 2014. ASC Public Affairs (5 May 2010)...
Archived from the original on 7 March 2007. Glass, MAJ Scott T. "MortuaryAffairs Operations At Malmedy — Lessons Learned From a Historic Tragedy". "Review...
(Southeast)". US EPA. Google Earth bathymetry "United States Navy MortuaryAffairs Burial at Sea Program". United States Navy. Archived from the original...
officer, California State Treasurer List of cemeteries in Colorado "MortuaryAffairs". "Air Force Academy Cemetery, U.S.A.F. Academy, Colorado - Burial...
war cemeteries Commonwealth War Graves Commission Missing in action MortuaryAffairs National cemetery The Unknown Warrior Tomb of the Unknown Soldier United...
CIA's Directorate of Support branch Graves Registration Service, now MortuaryAffairs, a service of the United States Army General Railway Signal, a former...
transfer vehicle, which then proceeds to the Charles C. Carson Center for MortuaryAffairs. US military officials do not designate the dignified transfer as a...
to reopen in 2003. The museum opened a new exhibit about Air Force MortuaryAffairs in September 2023. In addition to the aircraft and non-aircraft collections...
Europe & Air Forces Africa. US Air Force. Retrieved 16 January 2020. "MortuaryAffairs Excels in Short-Notice Exercise". US Air Forces in Europe & Air Forces...
central identification lab in Hawaii. They were initially identified by MortuaryAffairs as Blassie. The remains were reclassified as unknown when their projected...
in North Korea. At the beginning of the war, the nearest U.S. Army mortuaryaffairs unit was the 108th Graves Registration Platoon in Yokohama, Japan,...
MortuaryAffairs Operations Air Force Office of Special Investigations Air Force Personnel Center Air Force Operations Group Air Force Public Affairs...
including forward maintenance, field cooking, graves registration (mortuaryaffairs), host nation support, motor transport, and morale services. The work...
is home to the Department of Defense's Charles C. Carson Center for MortuaryAffairs. 50,000 U.S. casualties have arrived at this airport since 1955. An...
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