text: Chapter 2
  * Coordination with the USAF theater patient movement requirements center for medical regulating
  and movement of patients from Role 3 MTFs.
  * Consultation services and technical advice in all aspects of medical and surgical services.
  * Functional staff to coordinate medical plans and operations, hospitalization, operational public
  health, operational and strategic MEDEVAC, veterinary services, nutrition care services, COSC,
  medical laboratory services, dental services, and area medical support to supported units.
  * Coordination and orchestration of MEDLOG operations to include Class VIII, distribution,
  medical maintenance and repair support, optical fabrication, and blood management.
  * Plan and direct the execution of single integrated MEDLOG manager responsibilities, when
  designated.
  * Veterinary support for zoonotic disease control, food protection and quality assurance of
  subsistence, and animal medical care.
  * Operational public health support for medical and OEH surveillance, potable water inspection,
  pest management, food facility inspection, and control of medical and nonmedical waste.
  * Legal advice to the commander, staff, subordinate commanders, Soldiers, and other authorized
  persons.
  * Health threats monitoring within the AO and identification of required capabilities to mitigate
  threats.
  * Religious support to the command. This includes coordination by the MEDCOM (DS)
  headquarters chaplain section with subordinate unit ministry teams assigned to subordinate
  medical commands for required religious support throughout the AO.
  * Maintenance personnel to augment the maintenance unit that performs maintenance on the unit’s
  organic vehicles and power generation equipment.
  * Coordination with DOD contracting authorities on addressing HSS and FHP challenges associated
  with contracted services.
  2-41. This unit is dependent upon appropriate elements of the TSC for sustainment, finance, supplemental
  transportation, security during operational moves, sustainment area security and area damage control, CBRN
  decontamination assistance, and laundry and shower facilities.
  2-42. This unit (its TOE and supplies) is 100 percent mobile using organic assets.
  2-43. Refer to Figure 2-5 (on page 2-13) for a depiction of a MEDCOM (DS) organizational structure.
  REGIONAL FOCUS
  2-44. The MEDCOM (DS) maintains a regional focus that encompasses all of the CCDR’s AOR. As in all
  regions of the world, neighboring countries often have economic, social, and religious ties and deal with
  similar health issues. The issues which may be at the heart of the social unrest in the deployment area can
  usually be found to exist in the other countries within the same region. Medical forces, due to their
  humanitarian mission, are more acceptable to host nations than the operational Army. The medical
  commander’s ability to cultivate medical professional contacts within a nation or group of nations, facilitates
  the planning for and execution of regional strategies that will potentially mitigate the underlying social,
  economic, cultural, health, and political conditions which can foster civil unrest.
  2-45. By establishing linkages to the civilian and governmental health care authorities in each nation, the
  senior medical command headquarters can actively monitor existing health threats, develop regional
  strategies to mitigate these threats, enhance the host-nation government’s legitimacy with the affected
  population, and reduce human suffering. The medical commander provides the CCDR with an effective tool
  to assist in shaping the security environment by mitigating the adverse health conditions that impact the
  development of strong social, economic, and political infrastructures. The CCDR can deploy medical experts
  to provide consultation, training support, and advice to assist host nations in broadening their medical
  capacity in both the public and private health sectors through the development and implementation of health
  care programs specifically designed to address the particular health challenges faced by the host nation.