QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS SURE A+
✔✔EAB Unit: Medical Logistics CO - ✔✔Provides the following MEDLOG support to
EAB medical units operating within the AOR
Medical Materiel (Class VIII)
Medical Maintenance
Single and multi-vision optical lens fabrication
Patient Movement Items (PMI)
Has no organic blood support capability (distribution element from a Medical
Detachment (Blood Support) may be attached)
AOR will be assigned by its higher HQ (MMB or MEDBDE)
✔✔EAB Unit: Medical CO Area Support - ✔✔Provides Role 2 AHS support within its
assigned AO, as well as unit level (Role 1) support for assigned and attached units
without organic Role 1 capability.
Provides-Treatment/sick call services
Ancillary Services (lab, x-ray, dental)
Ground ambulance/evacuation support
Medical Logistics
Behavioral Health
May reinforce support to BCTs
✔✔Force Health Protection in EAB - ✔✔Field PVNTMED services encompass the
following AMEDD functions:
•Dental Services
•Combat Operational Stress Control
•Preventive Medicine
, •Veterinary Services
•Area Medical Laboratory Services and Support
✔✔EAB PVTMED Units - ✔✔Dental CO Area Support
COSC
Veterinary Service Support
Preventative Med
✔✔EAB FHP Unit - ✔✔Area Medical Lab
ID and evaluate health hazards in the AO through unique field confirmatory and theater
validation medical laboratory analyses and rapid health hazard assessments of CBRN,
endemic disease, occupational and environmental health (OEH) threats
Capabilities:
ID CBRN threat agents in medical specimens and other samples
Assist in the ID of OEH hazards and endemic diseases.
Special environmental control and containment
Data analysis
Medical laboratory analysis
✔✔Forward Surgical Team (FST) - ✔✔provide a rapidly deployable immediate surgery
capability forward in the division AOR, enabling patients to withstand further evacuation
✔✔FST Capabilities - ✔✔20-person team with 2 operating room (OR) tables
Performs triage/ preop resuscitation, initial surgery, and postoperative nursing care for
up to 30 critically wounded or injured patients over a period of 72 hours
Post-op nursing care for up to 8 patients simultaneously prior to further patient
evacuation
Operationally employed by being attached to a medical company (BSMC or MCAS);
otherwise attached to a Combat Support Hospital
100% mobile
Requires significant external support from medical company or CSH in order to function:
- Food service and water distribution
- Unit maintenance
- Patient regulation and evacuation coordination
- Base and convoy security
- NBC decontamination
✔✔Forward Resuscitative Surgical Team (FRST) - ✔✔A rapidly deployable, networked,
self mobile, modular and scalable resuscitative and surgical team, with the ability to