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Echelons Above Brigade (EAB) Flashcards

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Operational control (OPCON)

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Authority to organize and employ commands and forces, assign tasks, designate objectives, and give authoritative direction necessary to accomplish the mission

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Tactical control (TACON)

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Authority limited to the detailed direction and control of movements or maneuvers within the operational area necessary to accomplish missions or tasks assigned. Inherent in OPCON.
* Admin, sustainment, and Class I still remains the responsibility of parent unit

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What does it mean when a unit is organic?

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Assigned to and forming an essential part of a military organization as listed in its table of organization

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What does it mean to be assigned?

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Placed in an organization which will control and administer the unit’s primary function (relatively permanent)

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What does it mean to be attached?

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Placed in an organization for the duration of a specific operation (relatively temporary)

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Direct support

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  • Requires a force to support another specific force and authorizes it to answer directly to the supported force’s request for assistance.
  • Units assigned a direct support relationship retain command relationship with the parent unit but are positioned by and have priorities of support established by the supported unit.
  • Ex. an FA company supporting an IBCT
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General Support

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Support given to the supported force as a whole. It is not given to any subdivision of the force. Units assigned a general support relationship are positioned and have priorities established by their parent unit
* an MCAS provides general support for any unit in the area while the BSMC provides direct support to a specific brigade

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Reinforcing

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Requires a force to support another supporting unit. Only like units can be given a reinforcing mission. A unit assigned a reinforcing support relationship retains its command relationship with its parent unit but is positioned by the reinforced unit with priorities of support established by the reinforced unit, then the parent unit
* Ex. an FA BN gets tasked with reinforcing another FA BN. a BSMC is overwhelmed and an MCAS is tasked with reinforcing it

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General support-reinforcing

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Support given to the supported force as a while. It is not given to any particular subdivision of the force.
A unit assigned a general support-reinforcing support relationship is positioned and has its priorities established by its parent unit and secondly by the reinforced unit
Ex. BSMC is overwhelmed and the MCAS still continues their treatment while supporting the BSMC

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True or False: The assigned Army Command Relationship is described as a subordinate unit assigned to a parent unit and forming an essential part of a military organization as listed in its table of organization

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False - organic

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Field Hospital

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  • Assigned to the Hospital Center
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Hospital Center

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  • Unit: Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment
  • Personnel: COL, CSM
  • Mission: Provide C2.
  • 8 out of 10 Medical Functions - does not do evacuation or veterinary
  • Can command up to 2 Field Hospitals
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Surgical Augmentation Detachment (SAD) - know the mission

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  • Personnel: CPT, SFC
  • Assigned to the Headquarters & Headquarters Detachment (HHD), Hospital Center
  • Augments the capabilities of the Field Hospital (32-BED), with 1 OR (2 OR Tables) for 36 OR hours in a 24-hour period, with thoracic, urology, oral maxillofacial surgical capabilities, 24 additional Intensive Care Unit (ICU) beds, outpatient services, and microbiology
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Medical Augmentation Detachment (MAD)

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  • Personnel: CPT, SFC
  • Assignment: to the HHD Hospital Center
  • Mission: Augments the Field Hospital (32-bed) with operational dental care, one additional ICU ward, one Intermediate Care Ward (ICW), additional microbiology capabilities, and outpatient services for all classes of patients within the Theater
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Intermediate Care Ward (ICW) Augmentation

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  • Assigned to HHD, Hospital Center
  • Personnel: CPT, SSG
  • Mission: Augments hospitalization with up to 60 patients consisting of three (3) wards providing ICW nursing for up to 20 patients whose conditions require observation for real or potential life-threatening disease/injury
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Forward Resuscitative and Surgical Detachment (FRSD)

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  • Assigned to a MEDBDE (SPT) and attached to an HHD, Hospital Center or Field Hospital (32 Bed) and may be further attached forward to a Role 2 Medical Company
  • Personnel: LTC, SFC + 20 (13x officers, 7x enlisted)
  • Mission: To provide forward damage control resuscitation (DCR) and damage control surgery (DCS) in support of unified land operations, either independently, or as part of a future unified action partner coalition, for short and extended military health service support (HSS) operations
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Head and Neck Augmentation Team (H&N TM)

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  • Augments intermediate care nursing, patient administration.
  • Personnel: MAJ, SFC, + 18
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Medical Detachment, Minimal Care (MDMC)

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  • Role 3 Hospital patient hold capability
  • Role 3 Hospital OT/PT
  • Personnel: MAJ, SFC, + 38
  • Mission: To provide minimal care/convalescent care, hospitalization, nursing, and rehabilitative services for ambulatory patients being RTD or further evacuated
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MCAS

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  • 12 bed, 40 cot capacity
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Medical Company, Ground Ambulance (MCGA)

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  • Mission: To provide MEDEVAC within the theater of operations. Role 2 to Role 3
    *
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What is not a function of the medical company, ground ambulance?

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The transportation and handling of human remains is a logistics (S4) function and not a medical function.

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Medical Logistics Company (MLC)

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  • Personnel: CPT, 1SG, + 70
  • Mission: To provide Class VIII support, optical lens fabrication and repair, and medical equipment maintenance and repair for the brigade combat teams (BCT) and echelons above brigade (EAB) units, to include augmented support to the field hospital (FH)
  • Distributing Class VIII supplies
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Medical Logistics Management Center (MLMC)

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  • Assigned to Theater Medical Command (TMC)
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Medical Detachment, Blood Support (BSD)

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  • Mission: Provides collection, manufacturing, storage, and distribution of blood and blood products to BCTs, Corps, EAB medical units, and to other services as required.
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Medical Detachment, Optometry

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  • Mission: To provide optometry care and optical fabrication on an area support basis within an assigned AO
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Medical Detachment, COSC

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  • Mission: Provide COSC prevention and
    treatment services in direct support of BCT’s, DIV/Corps and Theater Army, and on an
    area basis to a joint or combined force
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Veterinary Services

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  • Mission: Provides dispersed Vet
    Role 1-3 medical and resuscitative surgical
    care; executes veterinary proponent requirements as the sole provider of vet services to the DoD.
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Preventative Medicine Detachment

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  • Mission: To provide technical consultation support on preventive medicine issues throughout the Theater of Operation.
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Dental Company (Area Support)

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  • Mission: To provide on an area basis operational dental care consisting of emergency and essential dental care, designed to eliminate potential dental emergencies.
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Laboratory Services

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  • as of FY25: Global Medical Field Laboratory (GMFL)
  • Mission: Identifies and evaluates health hazards in the AO through unique medical laboratory analyses and rapid health hazard assessments of nuclear, biological, chemical, endemic disease, occupational and environmental health threats
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Prolonged Care Augmentation (PCAD)

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  • The PCAD is a new unit. There will be a total of three (3) in the Army. One (1) COMPO 1 and two (2) in COMPO 3. The COMPO 1 PCAD is tentatively scheduled to be activated in FY25 while the two remaining COMPO 3 PCADs are scheduled for activation in FY26
  • Mission: Provides augmented patient care for protracted periods during delayed evacuation within the division and corps; provide en route care during intratheater patient movement; and to provide critical en route care during intertheater patient movement to strategic support area medical treatment facilities
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Which MMB unit provides Role 1 and Role 2 AHS support?

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MCAS

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Which EAB unit augments the Role 2 with enhanced resuscitative care capabilities?

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Forward Resuscitative Surgery Detachment (FRSD)

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Which medical functions are missing from the MCAS (compared to the BSMC)?

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Occupational Public Health
Veterinary Services
Hospitalization

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Which MMB unit has the primary responsibility for evacuation from Role 2 to Role 3?

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Medical Company Ground Ambulance (MCGA)

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Which MMB unit provides medical equipment maintenance and repair for BCTs and EAB units?

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Medical Logistics Company (MLC)

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True or False - The Medical Detachment, Blood Support (BSD) within the MMB provides blood and blood product support only within the BCT?

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False

38
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True or False - The Medical Detachment Veterinary Services (MDVS) provides veterinary services to all deployed DoD units

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True

39
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Which EAB unit provides command and control for the field hospital?

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Hospital Center

40
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Which augmentation under the hospital center provides additional OR capability to the field hospital?

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Surgical Augmentation Detachment (SAD)

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What is the difference between the hospital center and the field hospital?

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Hospital Center - C2 only
Field Hospital - First level of treatment

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