text: Army Health System Command and Control
  medical logistics management center (MLMC) forward team collocates with the distribution management
  center (DMC) of the TSC or ESC to serve as the liaison to the MEDCOM (DS). The MEDCOM (DS) is
  responsible for integrating and executing medical operations. The DMC is the principal staff section for
  coordinating sustainment across an operational area. It is headed by the support operations officer and is a
  coordinating staff section unique to TSCs and ESCs. The DMC is responsible for sustaining the force in
  accordance with the theater army priorities. The staff focuses on detailed planning for operational area
  opening, distribution, sustainment, and operational area closing operations. See ATP 4-94 for additional
  information.
  ARMY MEDICAL SUPPORT TO OTHER SERVICES
  2-25. The Surgeon General is the principal military adviser to the Secretary of the Army and the Chief of
  Staff of the Army on the health and medical aspects of manning, training, and equipping the Army as in Title
  10 United States Code. In this role, The Surgeon General serves as the Headquarters, Department of the
  Army medical integrator and synchronizer with expert oversight for material development for assigned
  programs and responsible for medical research, development and acquisition functions. United States Army
  medical forces provide AHS support to the joint force through oversight and assigned DOD EA or lead
  Service responsibilities for a number of medical functions. This requires the synchronization and integration
  of operational medical resources across the unified action partners to meet CCDR’s global mission objectives.
  The Surgeon General’s EA or lead Service responsibilities include:
  * Serves as the DOD EA for medical research for prevention, mitigation, and treatment of blast
  injuries.
  * Coordinates for joint patient movement across the joint force.
  * Provides intratheater aeromedical evacuation (includes medical evacuation from ship-to-shore and
  shore-to-ship for United States Navy and Marine personnel).
  * Coordinates for medical support to joint special operations forces. See ATP 4-02.43 for additional
  information.
  2-26. The MEDCOM (DS), MEDBDE (SPT), and subordinate units are responsible to the ASCC
  commander (through coordination with the ASCC surgeon) for regionally focused execution and oversight
  of AHS support to other Services within the AO. When designated, the MEDCOM (DS) is also responsible
  for providing operational medical logistics support to other Services. In cases where the ASCC is designated
  by the CCDR as the single integrated medical logistics manager (SIMLM), these functions are most
  commonly executed under the direction of the MEDCOM (DS) in coordination with the ASCC surgeon, the
  TSC, and the supported service components.
  2-27. For the Class VIII single integrated medical logistics manager mission, the MLMC provides
  information management and distribution coordination; the medical logistics company provides medical
  supply and medical maintenance support; the MEDBDE (SPT) provides planning and supervision; and the
  MEDCOM (DS) provides theater-level oversight of MEDLOG operations. The medical detachment (blood
  support) provides collection, manufacturing, storage, and distribution of blood and blood products for brigade
  and echelons above brigade AHS units and other Services as required. The MEDCOM (DS) maintains a
  command link with the MEDBDE (SPT) and coordination link with the TSC and/or ESC through the MLMC
  (forward team) collocated with the DMC.
  HEALTH CARE AND THE COMMAND SURGEON IN JOINT OPERATIONS
  2-28. The AHS is a strategic enabler of joint medical operations and provides the only standing theater-
  level medical command and control within the DOD. In joint operations, each Service operates its own health
  care delivery system, however, health care facilities, medical equipment, supplies, and personnel may be
  provided on a joint basis, when directed by the joint force commander. Although joint staffing is not a
  requisite to joint use, staff augmentation from Service components may be required. When one Service uses
  personnel or medical elements from another Service, the borrowing Service assumes operational control over
  those elements, however, administrative responsibility remains with the lending Service.
  2-29. Upon activation of a joint task force, a command surgeon is designated from one of the component
  Services. Joint Publication 4-02 states that a joint force surgeon should normally be appointed for each