Abstract
The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System – Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory (AFMES-AFDIL) and the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) are partners in the identification of missing United States service members. Skeletal materials are recovered world-wide from past military conflicts; however, this project examines the relative success of skeletal materials recovered from Southeast Asia. The soils in Southeast Asia are known to be largely acidic, with the majority being classified as acrisol or gleysol (pH4.4–7.2). Acidic soils are thought to compromise the structural integrity of buried skeletal materials leading to a degradation of the DNA found within. This study evaluates whether this idea is apocryphal or if acidic soils truly have an impact.
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