Dover problems
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — Taking Chance
cg11144 — 14 years ago(December 21, 2011 09:13 AM)
I had watched Taking Chance a year or so back and remembered the detail that goes into taking care of the service members. I just ran across this story and it definitely provides a shocking opposite. This was going on at least a year but not made public until recently.
Published: November 8
Federal investigators said Tuesday that they had uncovered gross mismanagement at the Dover Air Force Base mortuary that cares for Americas war dead after whistleblowers reported horror stories of lost body parts, shoddy inventory controls and lax supervision.
The Air Force admitted that the Dover mortuary misplaced a dead soldiers ankle and another set of remains that had been stored in a plastic bag. Employees also sawed off the damaged arm bone of a Marine so he could fit in his uniform and coffin but did not tell his family.
(rest of story at link)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/air-force-mishandled-remains-of-war-dead-probe-finds/2011/11/08/gIQABKuE1M_story.html