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The Dover Air Force Base in Delaware is home to the Defense Department's largest mortuary and the world's largest port mortuary. It handles most, if not all, military personnel killed overseas.

At the top of the page is a link to an Acrobat file containing nine Standard Operation Procedures covering the Dover mortuary.

Above and below are a few interesting passages clipped from the documents.

Links:

Dover AFB

Mortuary at Dover AFB

Globalsecurity.org page on Dover AFB

Technical note: I received these documents (paper versions) through Freedom of Information Act request #2004-077 to the Department of the Air Force, Headquarters Air Mobility Command. I sent the request on 06 Nov 2003 and received the manual on 23 Jan 2004.

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