Joint Personnel Recovery Center

The Joint Personnel Recovery Center (often referred to as JPRC) was a joint task force within Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV) active from 1966 to 1973, whose mission was to account for United States, South Vietnamese and Free World Military Assistance Forces (FWMAF) personnel listed as Prisoners of War (POW) or Missing in Action (MIA) in the Vietnam War. == History == === Background === In June 1965 the US Embassy Mission Council in Saigon established a Committee on Prisoners and Detainees with membership composed of representatives from each element of the country mission team.

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