811 Family Reports<\/h1>\n
(Most recent: Airman Leslie Mellard)<\/p>\n
Number of comprehensive “Family Reports” prepared upon request by the family members of missing American servicemen and servicewomen.\u00a0 The purpose of this research is to promote the education of family members and others by aiding in the recovery, identification, and return of these missing heroes.\u00a0 There is absolutely NO charge to the families of MIAs for the Foundation’s case investigations.<\/strong><\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n (Most recent: Fireman 1st Class Howard Adkins)<\/p>\n Number of missing American servicemen and servicewomen who have been recovered, identified, and returned home to their families after Foundation case investigations were completed on their cases.\u00a0 \u00a0You may see specific information on MIA cases that were the subject of investigations by researchers and investigators at the Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> and who were recovered and returned home .\u00a0 Click on the “HEROES HOME AT LAST” link above.<\/p>\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 Note:<\/strong>\u00a0 As of this update, DPAA lists on its web site that it has accounted for F1c William Francis Morris, an MIA from the USS West Virginia<\/em> at Pearl Harbor.\u00a0 The U.S. Navy and the family of F1c Morris insists that F1c Morris has NOT <\/u><\/strong>been identified.\u00a0 A Congressional inquiry has been made by F1c Morris’ family to determine the truth.<\/p>\n ________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Most recent:\u00a0 “Why Can’t Jack Come Home?”:\u00a0 The Case of PFC John Cecil DeLillis<\/p>\n __________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Click on the image above for a direct link to a story regarding a case investigation by the Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation courtesy of Fox News, Veterans Day, November 11, 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n On 30 January 2015, the Joint POW\/MIA Accounting Command (JPAC) was officially deactivated by the Department of Defense and a new agency, the Defense POW\/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA), was created.\u00a0 The Defense Department’s efforts at reform followed a series of embarrassing scandals and damning revelations in reports and testimony before Congress concerning mismanagement and failures at JPAC in the effort to identify missing war dead.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n According to DPAA, they have obtained “Family Reference Samples” (DNA) from about 6% of the families of MIAs from WW II.<\/p>\n As of March 31, 2024, DPAA reported on their website that there are still 72,103 missing American servicemen and women from World War II.<\/strong><\/p>\n The vast majority of identifications claimed by DPAA were made by the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory from remains previously buried in American cemeteries as “Unknowns.”<\/p>\n According to DPAA’s estimates, the budget for Fiscal Year 2026 is $171.3 million.<\/strong><\/p>\n Based on research completed by investigators from the Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> and submitted to the Navy’s Naval History and Heritage Command (NHHC), the U.S. Navy announced on 27 May 2022 that thirteen (13) sailors who were originally listed as “Missing in Action” from the sinking of the USS Indianapolis<\/em> had been officially “Accounted For” as “Buried at Sea” in August 1945.\u00a0 To date, DPAA has not updated their records and continues to list the 13 Indy heroes as “unaccounted for.”<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> is NOT a corporation.\u00a0 We do NOT have “Inc.” at the end of our Foundation’s name.\u00a0 We do NOT seek and accept huge, multi-million dollar annual government contracts while claiming to be a “non-profit” that begs the public for money.\u00a0 The Associated Press reported in June 2019 that just one “non-profit” corporation had received a total of $12 million over the past few years from DPAA.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> does NOT seek or accept any government funding nor do we pay salaries or “administration compensation” to anyone.\u00a0 \u00a0The By-Laws of our Foundation\u00a0 insures that not one single penny is ever spent for “administrative compensation.”\u00a0 ALL members of the Foundation agree to serve without compensation.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation’s<\/strong> research is based on documents we have lawfully obtained through hundreds of Freedom of Information Act requests to various government agencies, two successful Federal civil lawsuits to obtain public records, information provided to us by family members and other researchers, partnership agreements with other researchers, online research of public records, or our own investigators’ research at the National Archives or the National Personnel Records Center.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> does NOT sell our reports or copies of government records to anyone.\u00a0 \u00a0We do NOT sell memberships, battlefield tours, airplane rides, books with photographs of our ancestor’s skeletal remains, or hire telemarketers to solicit money.\u00a0 Some members of “non-profit” corporations shamelessly promote these multi-million dollar activities by SELLING books with false information and photographs of the skeletal remains of MIA’s to make a buck.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> does NOT claim to recover or identify missing American servicemen and women.\u00a0 We do not conduct field excavations.\u00a0 Our mission is to provide research and investigative information to families of MIAs and\/or government agencies upon request.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> has repeatedly offered to work WITH<\/strong> DPAA to exchange research materials and provide copies of our investigative reports\u00a0 at no charge, including research details, photographs, and maps with the locations of missing American servicemen and women.<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> always stands ready to assist the Department of Defense by utilizing the advanced law enforcement investigative techniques we developed based on our “Random Incident Statistical Correlation (RISC)” biometric profiling system and other sophisticated technologies we have helped develop such as MissingPersonLink’s computerized “Cranial Facial Recognition Program (CFRP).”<\/p>\n The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation <\/strong>has created extensive databases to enable our researchers and investigators\u00a0 to determine the names of “Possible, Probable, and Most Likely” matches of any remains recovered from World War II battlefields or those buried as “Unknowns” in American military cemeteries.\u00a0 When cases we have investigated are resolved with an official identification of a MIA by the Department of Defense, our Foundation is the first to offer thanks to ALL<\/strong> who were involved in the process and note the extent of our Foundation’s involvement in the case, which may have been large or small.<\/p>\n In the famous words of Navy Commander Joseph Rochefort, whose team cracked the Japanese code that lead to a great naval victory at the Battle of Midway, \u201cWe can accomplish anything provided no one cares who gets the credit.\u201d\u00a0 Amen.<\/p>\n Finally, the Board of Directors of The Chief Rick Stone and Family Charitable Foundation<\/strong> would like to leave you with this anonymous quote which graced the office of our founder during his tenure at the Navy Department:<\/p>\n “POOR IS THE NATION THAT HAS NO HEROES\u2026BUT SHAMEFUL IS THE ONE THAT, HAVING THEM, FORGETS.”<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n Copyright (C) 2012-2026 Chief Rick Stone & Family 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