text: Army Health System Operations
  MEDICAL PERSONNEL ORGANIC TO MANEUVER UNITS
  4-46. Medical personnel organic to maneuver units may be required to provide TCCC, area medical support,
  and MEDEVAC at the point of contact/injury and to temporary concentrations of detainees at detainee
  collection points and detainee holding areas. In early-entry operations, the senior medical officer (brigade
  surgeon) serves as the detainee operations medical director until follow-on forces are deployed and a detainee
  operations medical director is designated for the AO.
  4-47. The medical resources required to support detainee operations are task-organized based on mission,
  enemy, terrain and weather, troops and support available, time available, and civil considerations. The
  detainee operations medical director determines the medical support requirements and develops and provides
  technical guidance for all medical resources engaged in detainee medical operations. This guidance is
  directed to appropriate medical personnel through their technical channels.
  4-48. The detainee operations medical director is normally designated by the MEDCOM (DS) commander
  to develop and provide technical guidance on the medical aspects of detainee operations conducted
  throughout the operational area. Technical guidance is exercised throughout all echelons of medical channels
  and affects all medical personnel and units delivering health care to detainee populations. Technical guidance
  encompasses—
  * All medical services provided at detainee collection points and detainee holding areas, to include
  limited medical screening, TCCC, personnel protective measures (hygiene and sanitation), and
  MEDEVAC of seriously injured or ill detainees. The echelon commander must provide guards
  and/or escorts when detainees are evacuated through medical channels; medical personnel cannot
  perform guard functions.
  * All medical services provided in the detention facility, to include:
   Initial medical examinations.
   Medical treatment (routine care, sick call, emergency services, hospitalization, medical
  consultation, and specialty care requirements).
   Medical evacuation.
   Operational public health (such as medical surveillance, OEH surveillance, hygiene and
  sanitation standards and practices, pest management activities, and inspection of water
  portability, dining facility and services hygiene, and food preparation practices).
   Dental services.
   Veterinary support (food inspection and quality assurance, veterinary public health, and
  animal medical care).
   Behavioral health care.
   Neuropsychiatric treatment and stress prevention, as required.
   Medical logistics (such as medical supplies, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment and medical
  equipment maintenance and repair, blood management, and optical lens fabrication).
   Medical laboratory support.
  * All medical services provided in U.S. military MTFs which are not part of established detention
  facilities. This can include TCCC by combat medics and provided at battalion aid stations and
  Role 2 MTFs (medical companies) and forward resuscitative surgery provided by FSTs or FRSDs
  to stabilize the patient for further evacuation and hospitalization. Resuscitative care is tactical
  combat casualty care and surgery limited to the minimum required to stabilize a patient for
  transportation to a higher role of care while forward resuscitative surgery refers to urgent initial
  surgery required to render a patient transportable for further evacuation to a MTF staffed and
  equipped to provide for the patient's care.
  * All medical administrative matters such as the establishment and maintenance of medical records,
  documentation of preexisting injuries (to include medical photography, if deemed appropriate),
  restrictions on activities based on medical conditions (similar to medical profiles), and
  documentation required for legal purposes (such as monthly height and weight records).