Air Force Brig. Gen. Sharon Bannister, Defense Health Agency Education and Training deputy assistant director, stands by the row where her blood stain card is kept at the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains during a visit to AFMES Feb. 25, 2019. In 1992, the AFRSSIR was established to aid in the identification of remains and started with 10,000 collections at Fort Knox, Kentucky. To date, more than million DNA blood reference cards have been accessioned into the AFRSSIR and approximately 225 thousand new DN
Air Force Brig. Gen. Sharon Bannister, Defense Health Agency Education and Training deputy assistant director, stands by the row where her blood stain card is kept at the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains during a visit to AFMES Feb. 25, 2019. In 1992, the AFRSSIR was established to aid in the identification of remains and started with 10,000 collections at Fort Knox, Kentucky. To date, more than million DNA blood reference cards have been accessioned into the AFRSSIR and approximately 225 thousand new DNA reference cards are collected and accessioned yearly.
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