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  the right mix of medical forces and expertise (operational, technical, and clinical) to synchronize AHS
  support to operations.
  2-64. The MEDBDE (SPT) consists of an early entry module, expansion module, and campaign module. The
  design and flexibility of the MEDBDE (SPT) facilitates the AHS’s ability to tailor the unit to meet
  expeditionary health system support and force health protection requirements in support of early entry
  operations and transition to provide greater capability and capacity based on the size, composition, and
  location of supported forces. The MEDBDE (SPT) is assigned to the TMC and may be further task-organized
  based on mission orders. See FM 4-02 for additional information.
  MEDICAL BATTALION (MULTIFUNCTIONAL)
  2-65. The MMB is an EAB headquarters. The unit provides command and control, administrative assistance,
  logistics support, and technical supervision for assigned and attached medical functional organizations
  (companies, detachments, and teams) task-organized for support to deployed forces operating within the AO.
  The MMB can be deployed to provide command and control of medical forces during early entry operations
  and facilitate the RSOI of theater medical forces. It is under the command and control of the MEDBDE (SPT)
  and/or TMC. All EAB medical companies, detachments, and teams in theater may be assigned, attached, or
  placed OPCON to an MMB and may be further task organized based on mission orders. See FM 4-02 for
  additional information.
  HOSPITAL CENTER
  2-66. The hospital center is a modular Role 3 medical treatment facility (MTF) tailored to provide
  hospitalization support to operations. It provides essential care within the theater evacuation policy to either
  return patients to duty or stabilize them for further evacuation to a Role 4 MTF in CONUS or another safe
  haven. The hospital center consists of five modular elements capable of providing mission-specific medical
  and surgical support. It may be augmented by one or more medical detachments, hospital augmentation
  teams, or medical teams designed to enhance its capabilities to provide AHS support.
  CLASS VIII MANAGEMENT AND DISTRIBUTION PROCESS IN THEATER
  2-67. The TMC controls and supervises medical logistics support within the theater in coordination with the
  TSC, which provides distribution. An MLMC forward team collocates with the DMC of the TSC or ESC to
  coordinate medical materiel management and distribution and may be further task organized based on
  mission orders. Army Medical Logistics Command subordinate units United States Army Medical Materiel
  Center-Europe or United States Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea, and the United States Army Medical
  Materiel Center-Southwest Asia (assigned to Army Central Command) execute the theater lead agent for
  medical materiel mission. They provide theater-level medical materiel management, medical device
  maintenance and repair, optical fabrication, and medical set assembly and reconstitution. The United States
  Army Medical Materiel Agency, a subordinate of the United States Army Medical Logistics Command,
  integrates with ASC LSEs and issues medical APS unit sets and/or Class VIII contingency program to
  supported medical units.
  2-68. CCDRs often assign the ASCC (or Army component of a JTF) as the single integrated medical logistics
  manager with responsibility to plan and execute medical logistics support to all Services and multinational
  partners operating in the theater. The TMC or ASCC designated senior medical commander executes the
  single integrated medical logistics manager responsibility. The MLMC forward team provides information
  management and distribution coordination support for the single integrated medical logistics manager
  mission.
  2-69. The MEDBDE (SPT) coordinates with the corps sustainment brigade to plan and synchronize Class
  VIII supply and distribution operations at corps and below supply support activities and can serve as the
  single integrated medical logistics manager if designated by the CCDR.
  2-70. The MMB coordinates with the corps and division sustainment brigades to plan and synchronize Class
  VIII supply and distribution operations within the unit’s AO. This battalion can also serve as the single
  integrated medical logistics manager if designated by the CCDR. The medical logistics company provides
  direct support for medical materiel, medical device maintenance, and single and multi-vision optical lens
  fabrication and repair to supported units, including joint forces. The brigade medical supply office in the