text: Veterinary Services
  6-19. Veterinary Role 3 medical care capabilities include:
  * Patient case consultation and acceptance of referrals.
  * Comprehensive canine veterinary medical/surgical care (such as orthopedic and extensive soft
  tissue surgeries).
  * Extensive veterinary laboratory capabilities- complete blood count, chemistry, and urinalysis.
  * Robust veterinary pharmacy.
  * Diagnostic imaging (radiographs and ultrasound).
  * Definitive and restorative MWD dental care to include endodontic procedures.
  * Area of operations-wide patient tracking of MWD to include evacuation.
  * Established operational area MWD evacuation policy and standards of care.
  * Training for unit veterinarians and animal care specialist as well as institutional veterinary training
  programs, ranging from university hospitals to local veterinary technician training, for stability
  tasks.
  * Development of the detachment’s policies for care of government-owned animals.
  * Treatment, return to duty, or hospitalization of military or contract working dogs for continued
  care or stabilization of MWDs for transport/evacuation to veterinary Role 4 medical care.
  6-20. The Veterinary Medical and Surgical Team is staffed and equipped to hospitalize up to five military
  or contract working dogs.
  VETERINARY ROLE 4 MEDICAL CARE
  6-21. Veterinary Role 4 medical care is found in CONUS at the DOD Military Working Dog Veterinary
  Service and outside CONUS at the Veterinary Medical Center Europe. Veterinary Role 4 medical care
  expands the capabilities available at veterinary Roles 1 through 3 and provides additional specialized
  veterinary medical and surgical care, rehabilitative therapy, and convalescent capability.
  SECTION IV — VETERINARY PUBLIC HEALTH
  6-22. Veterinary public health includes preventing and mitigating the effects of foodborne disease; reducing
  the transmission of zoonotic diseases; monitoring, assessing, and mitigating endemic animal disease threats
  to working animals and CONUS agricultural systems; and monitoring animals as sentinels of threats to
  humans or other animals by investigating unexplained animal deaths. Using the U.S. Department of
  Agriculture’s regulations or the regulations for other countries (depending on the equipment’s final
  destination), veterinary services also assists with decontamination guidance for U.S.-owned equipment being
  retrograded to CONUS and other nations to prevent the transmission of animal diseases as well as advises
  the commander on foreign animal disease that may affect redeployment of military equipment back to the
  U.S. Specific services include:
  * Support for prevention and control programs to protect Service members from foodborne diseases.
  * Evaluation of zoonotic disease data collected in the AO and advice to preventive medicine
  elements, patient treatment elements, and higher headquarters on potential hazards to humans.
  * Establishment of animal disease prevention and control programs to protect Service members and
  other DOD and multinational personnel from zoonotic diseases.
  * Assessment of the presence of animal diseases that may impact the CONUS agriculture system if
  contaminated equipment or personnel are allowed to redeploy.
  * Investigation of unexplained animal deaths to include livestock and wildlife to detect any threats
  to Service members, working animals, or U.S. agricultural systems.
  * Establishment of animal disease prevention and control programs to protect military working
  animals from infectious diseases.
  * Technical consultation for zoonotic disease and pest control programs such as rabies advisory
  boards and feral animal risk mitigation. For more information on feral animal risk mitigation, see
  Armed Forces Pest Management Board Technical Guide No. 3, Feral Animal Risk Mitigation in
  Operational Areas.