The Scott POW/MIA Council

05/14/2026

05/14/2026

04/16/2026

https://www.koat.com/article/missing-soldier-identified-korean-war/71027663

The remains of a soldier from New Mexico who went missing during the Korean War have been identified.

12/15/2025

https://www.walb.com/2025/12/09/vietnam-pow-shares-lessons-2000-days-captivity/?outputType=amp

Retired Air Force veteran turns years of captivity into messages of hope and resilience

12/14/2025

https://www.dpaa.mil/News-Stories/ID-Announcements/Article/4357190/airman-accounted-for-from-world-war-ii-ginzl-j/

12/11/2025

A U.S. Army soldier who earned the prestigious Medal of Honor during World War II has been accounted for more than eight decades after he disappeared.

11/18/2025

The first prisoners of war to be released by Iraqi forces during Operation Desert Storm. (March 1991)

✩ From left: LT Robert Wetzel, MAJ Thomas Griffith, SPC Melissa Rathburn-Nealy, SPC David Lockett, LT Jeffrey Zahn, LT Slade, and Italian officer CAPT Cocciolone.

📌 In 2018, SPC Melissa Rathburn-Nealy worked with us to fight for the location of the Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial, as she testified before the Commission of Fine Arts.

📌 Nearly 35 years after these POWs were released from captivity, we are constructing the Desert Shield and Desert Storm Memorial at the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

📌 Be involved here: https://bit.ly/SupportTheMemorial

11/16/2025

10/31/2025

Killed 1 November 1942 and FINALLY coming home TODAY!

Tech4 Lloyd R. Bruntmyer, 22, of Des Moines, Iowa, who was captured and died as a prisoner of war during World War II, was accounted for Aug. 23, 2024.

Bruntmyer’s family recently received their full briefing on his identification, therefore, additional details on his identification can be shared.

In late 1941, Bruntmyer was a member of 7th Materiel Squadron, 5th Air Base Group, when Japanese forces invaded the Philippine Islands in December. Intense fighting continued until the surrender of the Bataan peninsula on April 9, 1942, and of Corregidor Island on May 6, 1942.

Thousands of U.S. and Filipino service members were captured and interned at POW camps. Bruntmyer was among those reported captured when U.S. forces in Bataan surrendered to the Japanese. They were subjected to the 65-mile Bataan Death March and then held at the Cabanatuan POW Camp #1. More than 2,500 POWs perished in this camp during the war.