Bone morphology was widely used to identify American soldiers’ bodies. However, new characters of the Vietnam War caused many servicemen’s bodies difficult to identify with the traditional method. Consequently, some soldiers’ families questioned whether the remains returned to them really belonged to their loved ones. Scandals of misidentification in the mid-1980s made these families pushed the choice of reliable forensic technology to congressional hearings. Their pressure and new progress in genetics in the 1990s persuaded the military to introduce DNA to identify highly decomposed and fragmented soldiers’ bodies. DNA’s success is ascribed to the oversight and cooperation of soldiers’
