{"id":53095,"date":"2025-11-04T00:23:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T00:23:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/uncategorized\/2025\/11\/04\/armys-clock-must-now-start-ticking-faster-when-a-soldier-goes-missing\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:28:44","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:28:44","slug":"armys-clock-must-now-start-ticking-faster-when-a-soldier-goes-missing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/armytimes\/news\/your-army\/2025\/11\/04\/armys-clock-must-now-start-ticking-faster-when-a-soldier-goes-missing\/","title":{"rendered":"Army\u2019s clock must now start ticking faster when a soldier goes missing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A new U.S. Army <a href=\"https:\/\/armypubs.army.mil\/epubs\/DR_pubs\/DR_a\/ARN45298-ARMY_DIR_2025-20-000-WEB-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/armypubs.army.mil\/epubs\/DR_pubs\/DR_a\/ARN45298-ARMY_DIR_2025-20-000-WEB-1.pdf\">directive<\/a> orders commanders to act within hours \u2014 not days \u2014 when a soldier goes missing, giving them three hours to classify a service member as \u201cabsent-unknown\u201d and eight hours to notify the soldier\u2019s family once the absence is discovered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change, issued by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll last week, compresses what sometimes can be a slow, inconsistent process for tracking soldiers with unknown whereabouts and involves law enforcement sooner. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commanders now have 48 hours to determine if a soldier\u2019s disappearance is voluntary or the result of something more serious or sinister. During that window, Army leaders are required to alert local Army law enforcement, enter the soldier\u2019s name into the National Crime Information Center database and issue a \u201cbe on the lookout\u201d notice and request help from local civilian police.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If the absent soldier is not found after two days, commanders must determine, by a \u201cpreponderance of evidence,\u201d the directive says, whether the soldier\u2019s status will change to AWOL, or Absent Without Authorized Leave, or missing under the casualty code DUSTWUN, known as Duty Status &#8211; Whereabouts Unknown. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Commanders are told to report as missing any soldier who \u201cindicates the potential for self-harm and is not located during the initial 48 hours,\u201d according to the new policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Before this new policy, commanders had 24 hours to account for a soldier before declaring them AWOL unless there was evidence that the disappearance was not voluntary. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The change follows years of criticism after high-profile cases, like the disappearance of Army Spc. 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