The FBI first deployed its CARD teams in March 2006. As of December 2007, there have been 26 deployments of the CARD teams. Based on the narrative summary provided by the FBI on these deployments, we analyzed the CARD operations, as follows.

• Results: In 11 deployments (42 percent), the missing children were recovered alive; in 13 deployments (50 percent), the missing children were recovered dead; and in the remaining two deployments (8 percent), the children remained missing after the FBI-CARD teams’ participation had ended.
  
  
• Size of the deployment: The number of the FBI CARD team members deployed ranged from one to seven; the average size of deployment is four team members; the mode — the most frequently occurring size of deployment — was also four team members (12 of the 26 deployments, or 46 percent).
  
  
• Locations: The 26 deployments have occurred in 18 states, further divided by the number of deployments that have occurred in each state, were as follows.
  
  
• 12 states (67 percent) had 1 deployment:
• Wisconsin,
• Tennessee,
• Utah,
• Florida,
• Arkansas,
• Mississippi,
• Maine,
• Minnesota,
• West Virginia,
• Texas,
• Connecticut and
• North Carolina;
  
  
• 4 states (22 percent) had 2 deployments:
• Oklahoma,
• California,
• Missouri and
• Alabama; and
  
  
• 2 states (11 percent) had 3 deployments:
• Pennsylvania and
• Washington.
  
  
• Number of missing children: There were 30 missing children involved in these 26 deployments; 22 of the deployments (85 percent) involved one missing child, while the remaining 4 deployments (15 percent) involved 2 missing children.
  
  
• Age of missing children: The ages of missing children range from infants as young as 4 days old to 17 years. Additionally, we noted that 5 (17 percent) of the 30 missing children were under 2 years old, considered infants.