According to various reports, the caskets were draped in UN flags in N. Korea for transit to Osan, S. Korea because the Korean theater is a UN operation and the remains had not been formally turned over to the US at that point. Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command and U.S. Forces-Korea commander, formally received the remains at Osan. There the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency began processing the remains and preparing them for transit to the U.S. Once their initial work is completed, there will be a formal ceremony at Osan where the cases will be re-draped with American flags to repatriate them and begin the final journey home. The remains will be flown to a DPAA lab in Hawaii where it could take months to determine how many sets of remains there are, since commingled bones are common in long term war recoveries. Identification of the remains could take much longer.
Welcome home brothers in arms, and thank you for your service...