text: Medical Logistics
  12-14. The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea serves as U.S. Forces Korea’s theater lead agent for
  medical materiel and is responsible for ensuring that tactical units are integrated into the medical supply
  chain. The Medical Materiel Center also assists the CCDR in MEDLOG support planning and contributes
  to the Eighth Army’s medical readiness by managing and fielding countermeasures used to protect and treat
  Soldiers in the event of a CBRN attack.
  SECTION IV — MEDICAL LOGISTICS SUPPORT FOR ROLES 1 AND 2
  MEDICAL TREATMENT FACILITIES
  12-15. The Class VIII supply functions for AHS units/elements operating Roles 1 and 2 MTFs are primarily
  the management of medical equipment sets, basic ordering for replenishment, and field-level medical
  equipment maintenance and repair support. Within the BCT, these functions are performed by the brigade
  medical supply office of the brigade support medical company and the MEDLOG Company operating at
  echelons above brigade. Refer to ATP 4-02.1 for information on MEDLOG.
  SECTION V — MEDICAL LOGISTICS SUPPORT FOR ROLE 3 MEDICAL
  TREATMENT FACILITIES
  12-16. Theater hospitalization is provided by Army Role 3 CSHs and hospital centers operating at EAB.
  Class VIII support for Role 3 MTFs is a vital part of its mission and includes management of a commodity
  that must be adapted to specific theater health care requirements distribution plans and capabilities provided
  by sustainment organizations.
  12-17. During port operations and reception, staging, onward movement, and integration these AHS units
  must be capable of operations immediately upon initial entry of forces. Therefore, MEDLOG support must
  be included in planning for port opening and early entry operations. Port operations may also include the
  issue of AHS unit sets from Army Pre-positioned Stocks as well as integration of potency and dated items,
  refrigerated, and controlled substances. In almost every operation, lessons learned reflect that theater
  MEDLOG units must also provide Class VIII materiel for unit shortages that were not filled prior to unit
  deployment.
  12-18. Class VIII sustainment of CSHs and hospital centers present the most complex medical materiel
  requirements and may consume materiel at a tremendous rate when providing trauma care in support of
  operations. Specialty care for burn injuries, orthopedic injuries and surgeries, and neurosurgery often require
  materiel and equipment that is not standard and may not have been anticipated or stocked in sufficient
  quantities prior to deployment. Combat support hospitals are typically made direct customers of a MEDLOG
  company/element that is capable of meeting the unit’s mission requirements.
  12-19. Theater hospitalization is provided by CSHs and hospital centers that operate Role 3 MTFs. Army
  CSHs and hospital centers are located at EAB. Role 3 MTF and forward surgical teams/forward resuscitative
  surgical detachments deployed from the CSH or hospital center are dependent on their supporting MEDLOG
  Company for Class VIII resupply and medical equipment maintenance and repair, and the medical
  detachment (blood support) for distribution of blood and blood products.
  SECTION VI — MEDICAL LOGISTICS SUPPORT TO JOINT HEALTH
  SERVICES
  12-20. Theater lead agent for medical materiel is an organization or unit designated to serve as a major
  theater medical distribution node and provide the customer support interface for MEDLOG and supply chain
  management. The designation of a Service organization to serve as the theater lead agent for medical material
  (TLAMM) is a critical element of the Defense Logistics Agency’s implementation of the Executive Agent
  for Medical Materiel. A TLAMM operates in the DOD medical supply chain using business processes and
  systems developed and standardized by the Defense Logistics Agency and Military Health System to promote
  effectiveness and efficiency. According to DODI 5101.15, the Defense Logistics Agency Director, in
  coordination with the CCDR, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Secretaries of the Military