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Mortuary Affairs is a service within the United States Army Quartermaster Corps tasked with the retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of deceased American and American-allied military personnel. Until 1991, it was known as the Graves Registration Service (GRS or GRREG).〔Sledge, 43〕 The Graves Registration Service was created several months after the United States entered World War I. The current Army Military Occupational Specialty for the career field is 90A (a general code for officers across the Quartermaster Corps) and 92M for enlisted personnel. ==Responsibilities== Mortuary Affairs is responsible for retrieval, identification, transportation, and burial of American soldiers. Retrieval can be further subdivided into: * Combat Recovery – Recovery while combat is still ongoing. * Post-Combat Recovery – Recovery of the dead immediately after combat has ceased. Danger from mines and enemy snipers is still quite high. Until the 20th century, it was commonplace for combatants to call battlefield truces, in which combatants would temporarily cease fire to allow for the collection of their dead. This practice has ceased in modern warfare. * Area/Theater Recovery * Historical Recovery The role of the Mortuary Affairs service is legally defined in the Uniform Code of Military Justice. (Specifically, it is defined in 10 USC, subtitle A, Chapter 75, Subchapter I, section 1471.〔Sledge, 13〕〔(U.S. Code collection – Forensic pathology investigations ). Cornell University Law School〕) Mortuary Affairs has historically been tied with investigation of war crimes. Following World War II, Graves Registration Personnel were instructed to forward all pathological evidence indicating war crimes to the War Crimes Commission.〔Sledge, 10〕 The Mortuary Affairs Creed is 'Dignity, Reverence, Respect.' 〔Director, Mortuary Affairs Center,("Ode to the Mortuary Affairs Specialist, 03FEBRUARY2011" ) retrieved 07AUGUST11.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mortuary Affairs」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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