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the remains are delivered. Upon inventory, the effects will be placed in a personal effects bag or other suitable
container with the original copy of DD Form 1076 (Military Operations Record of Personal Effects of Deceased
Personnel). To prevent damage from body fluids, the effects and inventory should be placed inside a plastic bag. The
personal effects will be associated with the remains from which they were removed by name and service number of the
deceased and/or evacuation number placed on the inventory. Money and other negotiable instruments will not be
separated from the other effects (or exchanged or converted) but will be evacuated intact with the other effects.
b. When emergency burials are required, the effects will be examined for identification purposes. Normally, they
will not be separated from the remains unless they contain information of a classified nature. The report of emergency
burial will contain a list of any effects removed from the remains and their disposition and a description of effects
buried with the remains.
c. When remains are evacuated to a collection point, temporary cemetery, or mortuary, the effects will be evacuated
with the remains. Effects may be examined for identification purposes at any point in the channel of evacuation. While
awaiting evacuation to the next point in the channel of evacuation to the personal effects depot, the effects may be
separated from the remains and kept in a secure container to protect them from loss or damage. When the remains are
evacuated, the effects will be removed from the secure container and evacuated with the remains.
d. At the temporary cemetery or mortuary, the effects will be examined and recorded for identification value. When
no longer required for identification purposes, the effects will be evacuated to the personal effects depot.
e. Identification tags are not personal effects and will not be removed from the remains except by personnel at the
temporary cemetery or mortuary if required for the processing of remains.
f. Armed forces identification cards are not personal effects but provide valuable evidence to support the identification
of the deceased. Identification cards found on the remains will accompany the remains through the channels of
evacuation to the temporary cemetery or mortuary. The identification card of deceased personnel will be sent with the
record of interment or mortuary identification processing documents to CDR, PERSCOM, ATTN: TAPC–PED–D,
Alexandria, VA 22331–0482.
22–4. Effects recovered from unit rear areas
a. Personal effects of persons deceased, missing, or captured by the enemy may be found in unit rear areas, storage
points, hospitals, and other locations. These effects will be collected, safeguarded, inventoried, and evacuated to the
personal effects depot. The inventory will show the status of the individual as deceased, missing, missing in action, or
captured, as appropriate.
b. When the effects are collected and inventoried, they will be securely packaged for shipment to the personal
effects depot. A copy of the inventory will be placed inside the package with the effects. The outside of each package
will be clearly marked with the grade, name, and SSN of the soldier whose effects are in the package. The package
will also be marked “Personal effects of deceased (or missing or captured) soldier.”
c. When effects of the type usually found with the person (for example, a wallet, ring, or watch) are recovered other
than from remains, the source of the effects will be clearly stated on the inventory. (Examples of such sources may be:
left in unit area; left with a friend (name and SSN) for safekeeping; found in hospital (designation and location); or at a
location (specify coordinates) other than with remains.)
d. All organizational clothing and equipment and other Government property to which the individual is not entitled
will be withdrawn at unit level and turned in to the appropriate supply officer. Personal military clothing, as defined in
AR 700–84, will not be withdrawn.
e. Ammunition, explosives, flammables, alcoholic beverages, and liquids that may damage the other effects will be
withdrawn at unit level from the effects.
f. Items withdrawn from the effects in d and e above will not be listed on the inventory of effects. A separate listing
of the items withdrawn will be made and placed in the package with the effects.
22–5. Inventory
a. The DD Form 1076 will be used to inventory effects recovered from remains and recovered from unit rear areas
in theaters of operation.
b. The original DD Form 1076 will accompany the effects in the channels of evacuation. Additional copies will be
prepared and distributed as required by local regulations. After processing of the effects at the personal effects depot,
the original inventory will be attached to the SCM report.
(1) DD Form 1076 for effects recovered from unidentified remains will have “Unidentified” entered in the name
block on the inventory. When the remains are identified, the name and service number of the deceased will be added to
the original and, when practicable, to copies of the inventory.
(2) The DD Form 1076 for effects recovered from group remains, identified and unidentified, will contain appropriate
notations to cross-reference the inventory and effects to all members of the group. The effects from group remains
will be concurrently evacuated through the channels of evacuation to the personal effects depot.
78 AR 638–2 • 22 December 2000