Communicate the Army Health System Medical Command and Control

Question 1

Who has Authority and direction exercised by a commander over assigned and attached forces to accomplish the
mission.

Answer 1

Command and Control

Question 2

____ command is the Army’s approach to command and control which empowers subordinate decision making and encourages appropriate decentralized execution.*

Answer 2

Mission Command

Question 3

The medical commander (command) and staff (control) synchronize the ten medical functions within the protection and sustainment warfighting functions?

Answer 3

• Medical Command and Control

Question 4

Whose not simply the exercise of C2 over assigned and attached medical units. Includes technical, clinical, and medical control of all FHP and HSS
support. Synchronization of health care is key to the successful accomplishment of AHS support?

Answer 4

Medical Command and Control

Question 5

Whose purpose is to Unity of Army Health System support effort. Train subordinates. Timely and effective decisions and actions. Inform and influence leaders?

Answer 5

Command Forces

Question 6

Whose purpose is to Regulate support. Direct and coordinate medical assets. Coordinate and synchronize medical functions between varied command and staffs. Prevent subordinate medical units from impeding one another. Maintain situational understanding of Army Health Services command and control systems and the common operational picture.

Answer 6

Control Operations

Question 7

What process is to Synchronize force health protection and health service support. Integrate processes. Ensure Army Health System support supports the CDR.

Answer 7

Drive Operation Process

Question 8

Whose purpose is to Support the commander’s decision making. Prepare and communicate directives. Facilitate the integration of medical information systems?

Answer 8

Establish the command and control system

Question 9

What kind of supervision is provided by the the commander.
To establish, implement, and monitor standards. Provide consultation and support to subordinate medical units or elements. Provide oversight over medical care to Soldiers, civilians, and detainees?

Answer 9

Technical Supervision

Question 10

Whose mission is to Command and control of EAB medical units providing AHS support in theater. It is the theater enabling command responsible for C2, integration, synchronization, and execution of all AHS support operations within the AOR. The MEDCOM (DS) serves as the theater medical command (TMC) within the Area of Operations (AO).

Answer 10

Medical Command (MEDCOM), Deployment Support (DS)

Question 11

Whose Regional Focus is to Establishing linkages to civilian and governmental authorities. Develop regional strategies to mitigate health threats. Enhance host-nation government’s legitimacy with the affected population and reduce human suffering.
Shape the security environment by mitigating adverse health conditions impacting strong social, economic, and political infrastructures. Medical experts can deploy to provide consultation, training support, and advice to assist host nations. Military medical training exercises can be mutually beneficial to the host nation and U.S. forces.

Answer 11

MEDCOM (DS)

Question 12

Whose mission is Headquarters and Headquarters Company, MEDBDE (SPT) is to organize, resource, train, sustain, deploy support assigned and attached healthcare capabilities to provide flexible, responsive, and effective HSS and FHP to supported force. The MEDBDE (SPT) is assigned to the MEDCOM (DS).

Answer 12

Medical Brigade (Support)

Question 13

Whose capabilities are C2 of subordinate and attached units. Operational medical augmentation to Role 2 BCT medical companies. Advises commanders on the medical aspects of their operations. Medical staff planning, operational and technical supervision, and administrative assistance for subordinate or attached units. Medical consultation and education services, such as: Operational Public Health, Behavioral Health to include COSC, Control and supervision of Class VIII supply and resupply?

Answer 13

MEDBDE (SPT)

Question 14

Whose mission is provide scalable, flexible, and modular medical command and control, administrative assistance, logistical support, and
technical supervision capability for assigned and attached medical functional organizations (companies, detachments, and teams) task organized for support of deployed BCTs and EAB forces?

Answer 14

Medical Battalion (Multifunctional)

Question 15

Whose capabilities are Provides array of health care units assigned and attached based on METT-TC(I).
Conducts operational planning for assigned and attached medical functional companies, detachments, and teams. Provides consultation and technical advice on operational public health. Includes campaign support element and early entry element (which may deploy independently or task-organized with a field hospital or hospital center as a medical multifunctional task force). Detachments / teams assigned or attached to the MMB may be further attached to the BSMC to augment / reconstitute BCT medical elements?

Answer 15

Medical Battalion (Multifunctional)

Question 15

Whose roles are Main driver of medical C2. Decision-making guided by analysis (TLPs / MDMP), judgement
(professional experience, knowledge, education, intelligence, and intuition), and staff input. The mission command concept demands that subordinate leaders at all echelons exercise disciplined initiative and aggressive action to
independently accomplish the mission within the commander’s intent. Mission command enables the medical commander at all echelons to focus on both accomplishing their higher commander’s intent and on critical decisions only they can make?

Answer 15

Medical Commander

Question 16

Whose roles are Organizations from Battalion through the Army Service Component Commands
(ASCC) are authorized a surgeon. Responsible for planning, coordination, synchronization, and integration of AHS Support at all echelons. Also responsible for portion of Annex E (Protection) and
Annex F (Sustainment) of the operations order. Medical Readiness Responsibilities: Reviews operational health threats and establishes additional appropriate medical readiness requirements and
Advises Unit Commanders on individual Soldier deployability (case by case)?

Answer 16

Command Surgeon

Question 16

A command surgeon is NOT a?

Answer 16

commander does NOT have command
authority

Question 17

Whose takes an active role to counter health threats to their force at all
echelons. They look to medical commanders to provide medical assets. They rely on unit medical officers (i.e. BN MEDO) for medical information, reporting, and decision-making input to have a medically ready force. Large-scale combat operations (LSCO) is intense, lethal, and brutal with complex, chaotic, violent, fatiguing, and uncertain conditions. Future battlefields will include noncombatants in and around large cities. Enemies will employ conventional and unconventional tactics to further complicate operations. The Army Health System must support the commander’s scheme of maneuver
during LSCO while retaining the patient care focus?

Answer 17

Unit Commander

Question 18

Whose medical Readiness Responsibilities are:
monitoring their Soldiers’ Individual Medical Readiness (IMR) and ensuring compliance with all the combined elements of medical readiness.

Answer 18

Unit Commander

Question 19

Who works with the battalion surgeon and physician
assistant (PA) to ensure medical treatment and AHS support requirements are met for the battalion?

Answer 19

Medical Operations Officer (MEDO)

Question 20

Whose responsibilities are: Track medical readiness of unit (BN, BDE, etc.). Project 90 days out for Medical Readiness Compliance. Plan Soldier Readiness Processing (SRP) and reserve resources. Liaise with company medics. BPT brief profiles, MAR2, and Medical Board (IDES) updates?

Answer 20

Medical Operations Officer (MEDO)

Question 21

What is an administrative determination by healthcare providers using a standardized
system across the total force.

Answer 21

Medical Readiness Classification (MRC)