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## News Release

# Servicemen MIA From Vietnam War Are Identified (Orr, Long)

The Department of Defense POW/Missing Personnel Office (DPMO) announced todaythat the remains of two U.S. servicemen, missing in action from the Vietnam War, have beenidentified and will be returned to their families for burial with full military honors.

They are Capt. Warren R. Orr, Jr., U.S. Army, of Kewanee, Ill.; and Airman 1st ClassGeorge W. Long, U.S. Air Force, of Medicine, Kan. Long was buried Sept. 30 in Medicine andOrr’s burial is being set by his family.

On May 12, 1968, these men were part of a crew on a C-130 Hercules evacuatingVietnamese citizens from the Kham Duc Special Forces Camp near Da Nang, South Vietnam.While taking off, the crew reported taking heavy enemy ground fire. A Forward Air Controllerflying in the area reported seeing the plane explode in mid-air soon after leaving the runway.

In 1985 and 1991, U.S. officials received remains and identification tags from sourcesclaiming they belonged to men in this crew. Scientific analysis revealed they were not Americanremains, but it was believed the Vietnamese sources knew where the crash site was located.

In 1993, a joint/U.S.-Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) team, led by the JointPOW/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC), traveled to Kham Duc and interviewed four localcitizens concerning the incident. They led the team to the crash site, and turned over remains andidentification tags they had recovered in 1983 while looking for scrap metal. During this visit, theteam recovered human remains and aircraft wreckage at the site.

In 1994, another joint team excavated the crash site and recovered remains, pieces of lifesupportequipment, crew-related gear and personal effects.

Among other forensic identification tools and circumstantial evidence, scientists fromJPAC and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory also used mitochondrial DNA anddental comparisons in the identification of the remains.

For additional information on the Defense Department’s mission to account for missingAmericans, visit the DPMO web site at www.dtic.mil/dpmo or call (703) 699-1169.

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