The LSEL (a highly unique scientific facility within the US and the world) was singularly qualified to scientifically study recovered military equipment artifacts and determine critical forensic aspects, to include, but not limited to: number of unaccounted for personnel represented at the loss site (i.e. 2 aviators), branch of military service. According to the US Department of Defense (DoD), the agency's core capabilities consist of providing personnel recovery guidance, developing, conducting, and supporting personnel recovery education and training, providing support to operations, exercises, and deploying forces, and ensuring that personnel recovery remains viable through the. Pararescuemen (also known as Pararescue Jumpers or PJs) are United States Air Force special operators who conduct personnel recovery and combat search and rescue operations as well as other missions for the U.S. military and its allies. PJs are generally assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command (AFSOC) and Air Combat Command (ACC). [5] Personnel recovery includes rescuing and providing. 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. The JCRC's precursor organisation, the Joint Personnel Recovery Center (JPRC) was established in September 1966 under the control of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG) to establish a personnel recovery capability within Military Assistance Command, Vietnam (MACV). The JPRC was responsible for evaluating information on missing or captured US. In written testimony presented in a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing, Col. Steven Kleinman of the Joint Personnel Recovery Agency (JPRA) said a team of trainers whom he was leading in Iraq were asked to demonstrate SERE techniques on uncooperative prisoners. The United States Armed Forces, in Joint Publication 3-50 Personnel Recovery, defines personnel recovery as the sum of military, diplomatic, and civil efforts to prepare for and execute the recovery and reintegration of isolated personnel. All six services are also among the eight uniformed services of the United States. [c] The armed forces consist of active-duty personnel, Reserve components, and the National Guard. The U.S. Armed Forces are widely considered the world's most powerful [19][20] and most advanced [21] military.