The status of a Port Angeles man’s Marine Corps son — who last week was listed as missing in action in Iraq — was changed to “duty status whereabouts unknown,” a Pentagon official said Tuesday.

Capt. Shawn Turner, a spokesman at U.S. Marine headquarters at the Pentagon, said Brian Reiss was contacted Monday and told of the technical change in the status of his son, Sgt. Brendon C. Reiss, in the Iraq war.

Sgt. Reiss was last seen March 26, Marine officials said.

Turner said service members listed as missing in action are those who are either still in communication with coalition forces or where coalition forces know of their possible whereabouts.

“We do not know where this Marine is that this time,” Turner said, adding that “duty status whereabouts unknown” means Sgt. Reiss is “completely cut off from coalition forces.”

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