More troops' remains dumped at landfill than previously acknowledged, paper says
Incinerated fragments of at least 274 troops were taken to Virginia’s King George County landfill between 2004 and 2008, The Washington Post reports.
Before stopping the practice three years ago, records show that the Air Force dumped the incinerated partial remains of more American troops in a Virginia landfill than the military has previously acknowledged, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday.
In all, 976 fragments of remains of at least 274 troops were incinerated and taken from Dover Air Base in Delaware to Virginia's King George County landfill between 2004 and 2008, Air Force records obtained by The Post show.
More than 1,700 other remains taken to the landfill were too badly damaged to undergo DNA testing, and they remain unidentified.
The military had maintained that the process of researching the records of more than 6,300 troops whose remains have gone through Dover would prove too daunting.