Revealed: How Pentagon FAKED repatriation of fallen soldiers for years with phony ceremonies, decommissioned planes and bodies that had spent months in labs

• The Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command has handled the identification and repatriation of soldiers from old battle fields for seven years
• Remains were taken off planes in coffins draped with flags while Taps played and then attendees sang the Star-Spangled Banner, suggesting the fallen soldiers had just been returned
• The Pentagon now admits that the ceremonies were held on defunct planes after remains had been in a lab for months
• The ceremonies in a Hawaii base honored POWs and MIAs from Korea, Vietnam, and World War II
  

By DAILY MAIL REPORTER

PUBLISHED: 03:27 GMT, 11 October 2013 | UPDATED: 08:24 GMT, 11 October 2013

For seven years, the Department of Defense has faked repatriations where military personnel carry honored dead soldiers off of planes as part of their ceremonial return to the U.S.

While the Pentagon insists the coffins indeed contain the remains of MIA soldiers returned to America from foreign wars, it now admits that the Hawaii arrival ceremonies often attended by a tearful audience aren’t actually arrivals at all.

In fact, the coffins are toted out of planes that can no longer even fly, but must be towed onto the runway for the phony ceremonies and the remains have sometimes been back in the country for months.

The ceremonies are handled by the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, an agency charged with recovering some 83,000 missing service men and women from World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. 

Until now, agency has allowed the public to believe that flag-draped boxes pulled from C-17 military planes contained the rediscovered dead from those countries.

But the Pentagon acknowledged to NBC News Wednesday that, in fact, the remains had only just been removed from a lab at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam in Honolulu.

Now, the events will be known as ‘honor ceremonies.’