Former U.S. Representative, Bill Hendon, (R-NC), served two terms on the U.S. House POW/MIA Task Force, as Consultant on POW/MIA Affairs with an office in the Pentagon, and as a full time intelligence investigator assigned to the Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs. He has traveled to South and Southeast Asia 33 times on behalf of America's POWs and MIAs. Hendon is considered the nation's foremost authority on intelligence relating to American POWs held after Operation Homecoming and an expert on the Vietnamese and Laotian prison systems.