Editing Missing in action (section)

===Gulf War===
According to the [[Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office]], 47 Americans were listed as POW/MIAs at some point during [[Operation Desert Storm]].<ref name="dtic.mil">{{cite web|url=http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/gulf_war/documents/IRAQI05B.pdf|title=Desert Storm Captives/Unaccounted-for|work=dtic.mil|access-date=December 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629105924/http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/gulf_war/documents/IRAQI05B.pdf|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> At the conclusion of the [[Gulf War]] of 1991, U.S. forces resolved all but one of those cases: 21 Prisoners of War were repatriated, 23 bodies were recovered and 2 bodies were lost over the Gulf and therefore classified as Killed-In-Action, Body Not Recovered.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/Iraq_Conflicts/|title=Two KIA-BNR from Desert Storm|work=dtic.mil|access-date=December 14, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140227091728/http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/Iraq_Conflicts/|archive-date=February 27, 2014|url-status=dead}}</ref> That one MIA case, that of U.S. Lt. Cmdr. [[Michael Scott Speicher]], became quite well known. He was reported as missing after his [[F/A-18]] was shot down in northern Iraq on the first night of the war.<ref name="cnn-speicher">{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/04/23/sprj.irq.speicher.search/ | title=Initials may offer clue to missing Gulf War pilot | author=McIntire, Jamie | publisher=CNN | date=2003-04-23}}</ref> Over the years his status was changed from missing to killed in action to missing-captured, a move that suggested he was alive and imprisoned in Iraq. In 2002, his possible situation became a more high-profile issue in the build-up to the [[Iraq War]]; ''[[The Washington Times]]'' ran five successive front-page articles about it in March 2002 and in September 2002, U.S. President [[George W. Bush]] mentioned Speicher in a speech to the [[United Nations General Assembly]] as part of his case for war. However, despite the 2003 invasion of Iraq and U.S. military control of the country, Speicher was not found and his status remained under debate.<ref name="cnn-speicher"/><ref>{{cite news | url=https://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieRx69tRJygBw63QD3HaV-ST_NBAD95JNIR81 | title=Panel calls for continuing probe of lost pilot | author=Evans, Ben | agency=Associated Press | date=2009-01-09}}{{dead link|date=June 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> It was eventually resolved in August 2009 when his remains were found in the Iraq desert where, according to local civilians, he was buried following his crash in 1991.<ref>{{cite press release | url=http://www.defenselink.mil/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=12862 | title=Remains Identified as Navy Captain Michael Scott Speicher | publisher=[[U.S. Department of Defense]] | date= August 2, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/08/02/us.gulf.war.remains/index.html | title=Remains found of first American shot down in Gulf War | publisher=CNN | date=August 2, 2009}}</ref>

How many Iraqi forces went missing as a result of the war is not readily known, as estimates of Iraqi casualties overall range considerably.

The two cases KIABNR:<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite web|url=http://www.dpaa.mil/Our-Missing/Iraq-Other-Conflicts/ |title=Iraq Theater & Other Conflicts |work=dpaa.mil|access-date= December 10, 2016}}</ref>
* Lt. Cmdr. Barry T. Cooke, U.S. Navy, was lost on February 2, 1991, when his A-6 aircraft went down in the Persian Gulf.
* Lt. Robert J. Dwyer, U.S. Navy, was lost on February 5, 1991, when his FA-18 aircraft went down in the Persian Gulf.