text: Surgeon and Surgeon Section
  * Provides current information on the battalion AHS support plan/MEDCOP to surgeons/medical
  operations staffs of the next higher and adjacent HQs to maintain medical situational awareness.
  * Advises the battalion commander and their staff on AHS support operations and the health threat.
  * Advises the commander on the effects of the Geneva Conventions on AHS support.
  * Plans and directs Role 1 AHS support for the battalion or within the brigade support area.
  * Supervises the health, welfare, organizational training, administration, discipline, and
  maintenance of equipment, supply functions, and employment of medical platoon or company
  personnel.
  * Supervises and oversees all medical treatment provided by platoon or company personnel.
  * Examines, diagnoses, treats, and prescribes courses of treatment for patients, to include DNBI,
  TCCC, and trauma management.
  * Supervises the battalion COSC program to include training troop leaders in the preventive aspect
  of stress on Soldiers.
  * Supports humanitarian assistance programs, when directed.
  * Provides operational public health support for the battalion.
  * Requests operational public health support from the brigade for requirements beyond their
  (battalion surgeon) capabilities.
  * Plans and oversees public health training for battalion personnel.
  * Monitors the command operational public health program to include health risk assessment and
  medical surveillance.
  * Oversees the Army warrior task training, continuing medical education, and clinical training of
  subordinate medical personnel.
  * Oversees the training of combat lifesavers.
  * Oversees the training of unit field sanitation teams.
  * Ensures that field health records are maintained.
  * Coordinates and monitors patient decontamination operations to include:
   Layout and establishment of patient decontamination site.
   Use of collective protection.
   Coordinates the establishment and training of nonmedical personnel for patient
  decontamination teams.
   Use of nonmedical Soldiers to perform patient decontamination procedures under medical
  supervision.
  C-24. Only when a battalion surgeon is assigned does the overall responsibility for the medical platoon
  belong to someone other than the medical services corps officer. Based upon command discretion, the
  medical operations officer may be designated as the medical platoon leader. They work with both the
  battalion surgeon and physician assistant to ensure medical treatment and AHS support requirements are met
  for the battalion. This officer is the principal assistant to the battalion surgeon and the primary leader for
  medical platoon operations, administration, and logistics.
  Note. In the absence of a battalion surgeon, the physician assistant is the principal advisor to the
  battalion commander and their staff in the area of health and medical readiness.