Robert E. Mitchell Center for RPOW Studies

The Robert E. Mitchell Center for Prisoner of War Studies is a special program* of the Naval Aerospace Medical Institute (NAMI). As such the RE Mitchell Center provides follow up evaluations of repatriated prisoners of war (RPW) from Vietnam, Desert Storm, and Operation Iraqi Freedom, to study the mental and physical effects of captivity and to address the findings' applicability to current military operations. A unique institution, it singularly holds the longitudinal database of the long term effects of repatriated RPWs and its Comparison Group.

*USC Title 10, Section 1501-1513
DoDD 3002.01 (2009 w/r 2017): Personnel Recovery in the Department of Defense
DoDI 3002.03 (July2013): DoD Personnel Recovery-Reintegration of Recovered Personnel
DODD 5110.10 (Sep 2005): Defense Prisoner of War/Missing Personnel Office
Joint Publication 3-50(Jan 2007): Personnel Recovery