MIA: Pentagon's Missing Soldiers Site

[sabra]

http://blog.wired.com/defense/2007/05/missing_persons.html


By now, most of the world knows that there are three American soldiers missing in Iraq. But, apparently, that's news to the webmasters for the Defense Prisoner of War / Missing Personnel Office. There's no mention of the G.I.s on their site; in fact, there's no mention of any troops from the wars in Iraq or Afghanistan at all.

The office, tasked with "lead(ing) the national effort to account for personnel missing as the result of hostile action," does have extensive information online about those who went missing in action in Korea, Vietnam, and World War II. But there's nothing but blank pages for Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom.



"My boyfriend is a Captain in the Army currently deployed for his second year-long tour in Iraq," RF told us back in March. "I spend a good part of my day at work, googling the internet for more information on how he's doing, as well as just looking at military websites. It's somewhat obsessive-compulsive in nature, but any information is better than nothing."

But people like RF won't get any information online. Instead, servicemember families and friends are invited to attend seven time per year meetings, to get information. Or they can call one of a series of 800 numbers (since most of the web links are broken, naturally).

What's the point of having a website, if you're not going to put any information on it?

[ChairmanAgnostic]

1. the point is very simple.

one, the president, his boss and Condi can all go on the airwaves, and brag about how open our society is and how we use technology to share information. The fact that they lie about what information is available is beside the point.

[Zywiec]

2. Sorry, but the webmaster's been deployed. n/t

[merh]

3. That's like FEMA's special websites during Katrina

or the Grant websites - their purpose is the bill the government for the creation, upkeep and operations of the site, payments to private organizations for profit and nothing else.

[me b zola]

4. I wonder how the families of the missing/POWs feel about this?

I would be out of my mind with rage.

[Breeze54]

5. And they are NOT the only three missing!!

Thank You for posting this and bringing this to my attention sabra!!

Maybe because not as many have died, like in WWII, they're being overlooked?? :sarcasm: :grr:

[Breeze54]

6. Your OP title should've said:

MIA: Pentagon's Missing Soldiers Site MISSING SOLDIERS!!!