The Armed Forces Medical Examiner System is committed to being the Department of Defense’s leader in providing medicolegal services and emerging technologies essential for the readiness, sustainability and survivability of our service members. AFMES provides the DOD and other federal agencies comprehensive forensic investigative services, to include forensic pathology, DNA Forensics, forensic toxicology, and medical mortality surveillance. AFMES is not only the single worldwide medical examiner system, but it also supports the entire U.S. federal government.
Mission
Investigate deaths, Identify the fallen, Improve readiness
Vision
Be the global leader in comprehensive and innovative medicolegal services enhancing the readiness, sustainability, and survivability of those we serve.
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Fact Sheet
4/5/2023
The AFMES-DOD DNA Ops is DOD’s sole DNA testing laboratory tasked with current and past conflicts human identification efforts and is comprised of the Armed Forces Repository of Specimen Samples for the Identification of Remains and the Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory.
Fact Sheet
12/16/2022
This Fact Sheet describes the purpose of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System.
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Last Updated: May 23, 2023