MIA

MIA

Missing in action (MIA) is a casualty Category assigned under the Status of Missing to armed services personnel who are reported missing during active service. They may have been killed, wounded, become a prisoner of war, or deserted. If deceased, neither their remains nor grave can be positively identified. Becoming MIA has been an occupational risk for service personnel for as long as there has been warfare.

Great efforts have been made to reduce the MIA category by linking the military version of the CITI (MITI = Military Indentification Tag Implant) with ship board logs. The MITI sends a ceae of Life function impulse to the Log book / and to the Military GalCom net. However if a service person is lost during action or missions beyond the range of GalCom the MIA designation can and does occur.

The MIA category is maintained for 100 years above the normal life expectancy of the being and then changed to KIA (Killed in Action)