text: Introduction
  organizations, and the roles and responsibilities of the medical commander, command surgeon,
  and commander.
  * Chapter 3 provides information regarding AHS and the effects of the law of land warfare and
  medical ethics information.
  * Chapter 4 discusses Army Health System operations; operational and mission variables; AHS
  support to decisive action- offensive, defensive, stability tasks, defense support of civil authorities;
  setting the theater; detainee operations; and maneuver units.
  Part Two, FHP, encompasses the preventive and treatment aspects of the following medical functions:
  veterinary services, combat and operational stress control, dental services, operational public health, and
  laboratory services (area medical laboratory) including the testing of suspect biological and chemical warfare
  agent samples.
  * Chapter 5 describes operational public health’s mission, primary tasks, organizations and
  personnel.
  * Chapter 6 discusses veterinary services missions and primary tasks, consisting of the food
  protection mission, animal care mission, and veterinary public health.
  * Chapter 7 provides information on combat and operational stress control including primary tasks,
  responsibilities, and programs and resources.
  * Chapter 8 provides information on the preventive and treatment aspects of dental services.
  * Chapter 9 discusses environmental and clinical medical laboratory services.
  Part Three, HSS, encompasses medical treatment, medical evacuation (including medical regulating), and
  medical logistics (including blood management). Health services support three mission sets include all of
  the medical functions involved with direct patient care (medical treatment [organic and area support] and
  hospitalization) to include diagnostic medical laboratories and the medical functions of medical evacuation
  and medical logistics.
  * Chapter 10 discusses direct patient activities including medical treatment (organic and area
  support) and theater hospitalization (combat support hospital and hospital center).
  * Chapter 11 provides information on medical evacuation to include integrated medical evacuation
  system, medical regulating, and strategic medical evacuation and patient movement.
  * Chapter 12 discusses medical logistics to include medical logistics management in an operational
  environment, medical logistics command and control organizations, medical logistics support for
  Roles 1 through 3 medical treatment facilities, and as theater lead agent for medical materiel and
  the single integrated medical logistics manager.
  The Medical Center of Excellence, Doctrine Literature Division is reorganizing the placement of terms and
  definitions found in proponent publications within the Army Medicine Doctrine Publication Library. It was
  determined that some of the terms are best suited in other publications within the Army Medicine Doctrine
  Publication Library.
  Based on current doctrinal changes, certain terms for which FM 4-02 is proponent have been added,
  rescinded, or modified for purposes of this publication. The glossary contains acronyms an defined terms.
  See introductory table-1, introductory table-2 on page xi for specific term changes.
  Introductory Table-1. Rescinded Army terms
  Term Remarks
  Rescinded. Adopts common English usage. No longer
  hospital formally defined.
  preventive medicine Rescinded.