text: Sustainment Operations During Competition Below Armed Conflict
  bands support CCDRs by promoting U.S. national interests and building partnerships. Army bands can exert
  a low-threat, influential effect when performing in support of the commander’s outreach plan or public and
  cultural diplomatic initiatives. Army Bands also provide casualty operations support to HR organizations.
  Planning requirements include placement of bands within a theater of operations. See ADP 4-0, ATP 1-0.1,
  and ATP 1-19 for more details.
  HEALTH SERVICE SUPPORT
  3-84. HSS capabilities are critical enablers during competition. Army medical personnel provide AHS
  support to sustain forces deployed during competition. The HSS mission includes medical treatment (organic
  and area support), hospitalization, medical evacuation (including medical regulating), and in coordination
  with Army Sustainment, medical logistics (including blood management). The ASCC commander has the
  authority to designate command and support relationships to deployed commands to integrate and
  synchronize capabilities (such as transportation, engineers, EOD, medical, and logistics) until later enabling
  commands arrive in theater. The TMC is responsible for integration, synchronization, coordination, planning,
  and execution of AHS support to the deployed force.
  3-85. Essential AHS support tasks during competition and crisis include the provision of support to stability
  efforts (which include global health engagements), home station medical activities, and generation of medical
  capabilities. AHS support operations during competition are executed with the intent of enhancing
  international legitimacy and gaining multinational cooperation to mitigate conditions that could lead to a
  crisis. Therefore, AHS support to stability operations are critical to mission success throughout the phases of
  conflict. Regional health threat assessments, regional medical infrastructure assessments, building partner
  medical capacity, establishment/maintenance of support agreements, and other AHS support activities to set
  the theater provide the foundation for planning, sustaining, and achieving effective medical support to the
  theater campaign plan.
  3-86. AHS support activities identified for planning and coordination to set the theater are implemented and
  executed during competition. The TMC, MEDBDE (SPT), and their subordinate units provide AHS support
  to theater opening, RSOI of early entry forces, integration of joint and multinational medical capabilities for
  establishment and execution of the joint trauma system, and global health engagements and other stability
  operations in support of security cooperation and deterrence missions to build partner medical capacity,
  which promotes regional stability. Other key AHS activities during competition include the provision of AHS
  support for medical maintenance and execution of medical support agreements, home station medical
  readiness and training activities, force tailoring for generation of medical capabilities, providing Army
  operational medical support to other Services and unified action partners, as well as assessment of theater
  APS and other medical logistics support. Efforts are also made to identify capability gaps and determine fills.
  3-87. The role of Army Medicine in support of the CCMD is to preserve fighting strength by providing
  medically ready forces and trained, ready, and rapidly deployable medical forces. Preserving fighting strength
  also focuses on maximizing the number of troops available for employment by preventing or mitigating
  health threats, maximizing return to duty rates, minimizing morbidity and mortality, and clearing the
  battlefield to enable freedom of movement. To accomplish these tasks, Army Medicine leverages the surgeon
  sections (staff channel) at each echelon and medical command and control channels to integrate AHS with
  Army sustainment staffs (S-4 and G-4) and commands (TSC, ESC, and sustainment brigade) in support of
  U.S. national objectives, the CCDR’s theater campaign plan, and the Unified Command Plan across the full
  range of military operations.
  3-88. Medical staff channels (surgeon sections) conduct integration, coordination, synchronization, and
  planning of AHS support with sustainment staff (S-4 and G-4). The chain of medical commanders executes
  AHS support to established plans. Starting with the Surgeon General, the surgeon sections at each echelon
  identify, assess, counter and/or mitigate health threats throughout the range of military operations. The
  surgeon sections with sustainment staff advise commanders on the optimal placement and coordinate use of
  medical assets to support operations (for example, forward-positioned forces, APS, and assets in adjacent or
  supporting regions).
  3-89. During competition, institutional medical organizations within Army Medicine (in coordination with
  the Defense Health Agency) conduct home station medical activities to maintain health readiness, support
  contingencies, and project medical forces in support of the CCMD. At EAB, organizations without organic