Pentagon Reorganizing How It Brings Home America's War Dead

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http://www.npr.org/2014/03/31/294831647/pentagon-reorganizing-how-it-brings-home-americas-war-dead

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced an overhaul Monday of the agencies responsible for finding, identifying, and returning the remains of servicemen lost in past wars.

The Pentagon spends more than $100 million a year on the effort, but last year only identified 60 of the more than 80,000 missing.

Hagel's undersecretary, Michael Lumpkin, says there will now be one agency to bring home lost servicemen and better communication with the families of the fallen. The agency will also move toward a more productive scientific approach of identifying remains, led by testing and comparing samples of DNA.

"We can clearly do better as a department. We have found that we are structurally flawed to do the mission as it sits today," Lumpkin said. "We need to break away from the way of traditionally doing business and fully embrace progressive science and streamline processes and practices."

[MADem]

1. YES!!!!!!!

Believe me, there have been people inside the Beltway who have been advocating for a more streamlined and responsive approach (with a smaller joint staff and less territoriality) for decades now.

How wonderful that they're finally getting off their asses, it has been too bloated for way too long.

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2. Same thoughts here

Glad to see this happening.

[SamKnause]

3. If you were given a budget

of $100 million dollars and performed this poorly (identified 60 of more than 80,000) do you think you would be fired ?????

It seems only the poor and working poor are expected to be held accountable for anything that happens in the U.S..

This is so fucked up.

How many people were fired after 9/11 ? ZERO

ZERO accountability !!!!

How many people were fired after the intentional collapse of the global economy ? ZERO

Instead they were asked to fix the mess they caused.

They were referred to as the best and the brightest.

ZERO accountability !!!!

How many people were prosecuted for invading Iraq ? ZERO

They wrote books and stated they would do it again.

They went on tv and stated they would do it again.

ZERO accountability !!!!

This is so fucked up !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!