Armed Forces Medical Examiner System (AFMES), Europe

Beschreibung

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AFMES provides worldwide comprehensive medico-legal services and investigations. Board-certified forensic pathologists, forensic anthropologists, medical-legal death investigators and photographers are available 24 hours a day to conduct forensic investigations into military deaths throughout the world. The Armed Forces DNA Identification Laboratory provides scientific consultation, research and education services in the field of forensic DNA analysis to the Department of Defense and other agencies. In addition, the medical examiner system has DoD's centralized laboratory for performing routine toxicological testing for military aircraft, ground and ship (sea) mishaps; military autopsies; biological specimens from AFOSI, CID and NCIS criminal investigations; blood for legal alcohol and drug tests in DUI and DWI medico-legal determinations; blood and urine in fitness-for-duty interrogations; and selected cases of national interest.