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10 U.S.C. § 1509

Program to resolve missing person cases

United States · Title 10 — ARMED FORCES · Status: effective

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10 U.S.C. § 1509, Program to resolve missing person cases, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/433455
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The Secretary of Defense shall implement a comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and fully resourced program to account for persons described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of section 1513(1) of this title who are unaccounted for from the following conflicts: The medical examiner so assigned or detailed shall— The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that a personnel file is established and maintained for each person covered by subsection (a) if the Secretary— Upon receipt of new information under paragraph (1), the Secretary shall ensure that— For purposes of this subsection, new information is information that is credible and that—

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