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Personnel Casualty Report (Missing)
(BUPERS Report Symbol 1770-4)
If you receive information that a person is missing,
submit a personnel casualty report (missing/missing in
action/and so forth) no later than 4 hours following
receipt of information that a member should be placed
in this status. Date missing will be the date of the initial
disappearance unless other information is available that
indicates a more current date.
Submit the report in the same format previously
discussed, modified as necessary. Label unknown or
unconfirmed information in the initial personnel
casualty report message and clarify in the supplemental
reports. Include in the message a statement of the status
of the search.
Daily supplemental search reports are required
unless transmission is not possible for security reasons,
Reports must furnish the extent, progress, and other
pertinent information that the next of kin may find
useful. Search reports will continue until a report is sent
stating that the search has been discontinued and the
member is:
a. recovered alive and returned to military control;
b. reported in a missing status because evidence of
death or unauthorized absence is not considered
conclusive;
c. placed in an unauthorized absence status (date
of absence will be initial date of disappearance); or
d. reported dead because remains arc recovered or
search efforts were unsuccessful but evidence of death
is considered conclusive.
Consider conclusive evidence of death when
information such as eyewitness statements,
circumstances of disappearance, results of immediate
search, local conditions, and terrain provide beyond any
reasonable doubt that a DUSTWUN category person
may have survived. Such conclusive evidence does not
have to be based on the recovery of remains since
situations may arise that the remains cannot be
recovered. If, after immediate search, evidence of death
does exist, the responsible command has the authority
and duty to submit a report of death. The date of death
will be the date the member was placed in a DUSTWUN
status unless circumstances indicate subsequent
survival.
Once a member is reported in a missing status, the
CO is prohibited under the Missing Persons Act (37
U.S.C. 551 to 558) from reporting any further change in
status. The missing case becomes the responsibility of
the Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) or his or her
designee (PERS 66).
Within 5 days after a person is placed in a missing
status, submit a report furnishing all available details to
CHNAVPERS. The report must include the latitude and
longitude; distance from nearest land, when applicable;
local conditions; extent of searches made; statements of
survivors or other members who may have pertinent
information on the attendant circumstances; and the
opinion and recommendation of the CO about the proper
casualty status.
Factors such as remote distances from occurrence
and lack of current on-scene information make
immediate determination and reporting difficult but do
not relieve the CO of the responsibility for submission
of the report required for review in determining the
member’s status under the Missing Persons Act (37
U.S.C. 551 to 558). The CO must immediately report
subsequent information on new developments.
Personnel Casualty Report (Fleet
Reserve/Retired) (BUPERS Report
symbol 1770-3)
Report death of members of the Fleet Reserve and
retired members of the Navy who are receiving retired
pay, including members whose names are on the
Temporary Disability Retired List/Permanent Disability
Retired List to CHNAVPERS. This action removes their
names from the rolls of the Navy Department, closes
their records, settles their accounts, and assists the
surviving family members in applying for survivor
benefits. The CAC/FHS program coordinator or the CO
of any naval activity who receives information of the
death of the member must do the following:
Send a personnel casualty report message to
CHNAVPERS (PERS 662) with tin information copy to
DFAS - Cleveland Center (Code JRP).
lf sufficient information is not available to
complete the personnel casualty report, the CO of the
activity must obtain and mail or request that the
surviving family members send only one copy of the
civil death certificate to DFAS - Cleveland Center. The
personnel casualty report must contain only items ALFA
through GOLF. A complete personnel casualty report
using items ALFA through QUEBEC must be submitted
for a member who dies after release from a period of
active duty during the period necessary for the member
to proceed to his or her home by the most direct route
following such release.
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