[RANGERAIRBORNE]

"JPAC is being pressured to push up Dean's brother's identification ahead of approximately a hundred other service members remains, it is claimed. "

There are THOUSANDS of unidentified remains at CILHI waiting to have forensic studies done. I'm not sure where this figure of "a hundred" comes from, but it sems pretty low to me.

Also, this is a trend- like JFK, Jr getting a burial at sea from a Navy ship. Just outrageous. We can't even provide a bugler to play "TAPS" for real heroes who fought and were wounded in defending this Nation, but we can do full military honors for some hippy .

Unless it can be shown that Dean and his rekking buddy were working for the CIA (unlikely(, rather than looking for exotic hookers and cheap heroin in that area, then I would oppose this phony exercise.

And, as much as Howard "the Duck" Dean hates the military, I am surprised that he would allow military honors anyway.

[ken5050]

I believe that the "thousands" of remains refers to bone fragments...which may in fact come from less than a hundred MIA...assume a plane crashed, know to have three souls on board...the crash, animal predation, decomposition, might yield several hundred bones and fragments scattered over the search area...the military attempts to use DNA testing to identify every fragment..they just don't divide them up...

[Spyder]

There are THOUSANDS of unidentified remains at CILHI waiting to have forensic studies done. I'm not sure where this figure of "a hundred" comes from, but it sems pretty low to me.

Bump to follow up on this one... we have a friend who's a dentist there (CILHI, now known as JPAC). Somehow "thousands" seems wayyyy high.