APPLETON, WI (WTAQ) — An Appleton State Senator is introducing a bill to help find missing Wisconsin service members. It comes on National POW/MIA Recognition Day which is Friday.
Republican State Senator Roger Roth’s bill provides funding to the University of Wisconsin Missing-in-Action Recovery and Identification Project.
“There are 1,500 MIA/POWs from here in Wisconsin,” Roth told WTAQ. “From conflicts ranging from World War I to Vietnam.”
The bill allocates $180,000 to finding up to three such missing service members. That money will go not only towards background work in the United States, but often a trip overseas to dig and investigate in previous warzones.
“Our bill will pay for up to three Wisconsin-specific MIA/POW cases,” said Roth. “In hopes of drawing down that number.”
The University of Wisconsin contracts with the Department of Defense to track down and learn the fates of those service members who went missing.
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