Remains of Korean War soldier identified as 17-year-old who went missing 74 years ago
Thomas A. Smith (U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency/Released)
MAY 17, 2024 KATE LINDERMAN - THE CHARLOTTE OBSERVER
 
After a 17-year-old American soldier went missing in action in 1950 during the Korean War, military officials said they couldn’t find his remains.


Nearly 74 years later, Thomas A. Smith of Grant, Michigan, has been accounted for, the U.S. Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency announced on May 14.

Smith went missing on Aug. 2, 1950, during a battle in Chinju at the southern end of the Korean peninsula. Soldiers were unable to recover his remains, officials said, and they determined he was not a prisoner of war.


The U.S. Army presumed Smith dead in 1953, officials said.

 
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2024/05/remains-of-korean-war-soldier-identified-as-17-year-old-who-went-missing-74-years-ago/

Ex-military surgeons embrace new mission: stop Americans from bleeding to death
Members of the “whole blood mafia” have used persuasion and persistence to increase the number of communities where rescue vehicles carry blood.
 
How ex-military surgeons are pushing for laws allowing ambulances to carry blood
 
May 18, 2024, 6:00 AM EDT
By Cynthia McFadden, Kevin Monahan and Alexandra Chaidez

A movement to revolutionize the treatment of trauma patients in the U.S. can be traced to an infamous battle fought in East Africa more than 30 years ago.

Dr. John Holcomb was an Army trauma surgeon deployed to Somalia when two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down over the city of Mogadishu in 1993. With dozens of soldiers bleeding out and no hospitals available, the head doctor told Holcomb to prepare for a “walking blood bank.”

“I had never heard of such a thing,” Holcomb recalled.
 
Members of the medical team laid down, rolled up their sleeves and soon their blood was being delivered directly to wounded soldiers. The medical staff then got up and continued working.That experience, which demonstrated how getting blood to trauma patients as quickly as possible saves lives, left a lasting impression. Holcomb is now among a group of former military surgeons on a mission to make blood available to patients in those critical moments when they’re en route to a hospital.

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/investigations/ex-military-surgeons-embrace-new-mission-stop-americans-bleeding-death-rcna151034

If true, the Army might want to consider leaving him in Russia for the safety of his comrades.

With poor recruiting and retention numbers, where will these bodies materialize?

I don't suppose the results have anything to do with lower recruiting numbers and lower retention numbers?