text: Appendix E
  Institutional Force Support to the Operational Army
  E-1. The Army Medicine has a long tradition of providing world-class medical care across global
  operational areas, OEs, and under austere and challenging conditions to the joint force. Wherever an injured
  or ill Service member is located, the United States Army will project its resources to locate, acquire, treat,
  stabilize, and evacuate our wounded Service members to MTFs capable of providing world-class health care
  to enhance the prognosis, mitigate disability, and empower them to lead full and productive lives.
  E-2. Historically, Army Medicine has provided acute trauma care, curative, restorative, rehabilitative, and
  convalescent care within the AO. Soldiers were not evacuated for care in the CONUS-support base unless
  their recovery time exceeded the theater evacuation policy (in some cases up to 60 days).
  E-3. With the advent of technological innovations in transportation and medicine the last few years, Soldiers
  can be stabilized and rapidly evacuated from austere OEs to world-class fixed MTFs in CONUS or other safe
  havens in a matter of hours to days from the time of injury or wounding. These advancements have—
  * Enabled the essential care in the operational area concept to be implemented.
  * Reduced the medical footprint present in a deployed setting without reducing the quality of
  medical care provided to our Soldiers.
  * Optimized the use of scarce medical resources.
  * Enabled wounded and ill Soldiers to more rapidly be reunited with their Families and personal
  support structures to facilitate and enhance the healing process.
  MISSION FOCUS
  E-4. The mission of the institutional force is to generate and sustain operational Army capabilities. The
  Army does not organize the institutional force into standing organizations with a primary focus on specific
  operations. Rather, when the institutional force capabilities perform specific functions or missions in support
  of and at the direction of joint force commanders, it is for a limited period of time. Upon completion of the
  mission, the elements and assets of those institutional force capabilities revert to their original function.
  E-5. All elements of the Army, whether the institutional force or operational Army, perform functions
  specified by U.S. law. The Army executes Title 10 and Title 32 USC directives, to include organizing,
  equipping and training forces for the conduct of prompt and sustained combat operations on land;
  accomplishing missions assigned by the President of the United States, Secretary of Defense and CCDRs;
  and changing the force to meet current and future demands. Below is the list of USC Title 10, Armed Forces,
  Subtitle B, Army functions:
  * Recruiting.
  * Organizing.
  * Supplying.
  * Equipping (including research and development).
  * Training.
  * Servicing.
  * Mobilizing.
  * Demobilizing.
  * Administering (including morale and welfare of personnel).
  * Maintaining.
  * Constructing, maintaining, repairing buildings structures, utilities, and acquiring real property
  and interests in real property necessary to carry out the responsibilities specified in this section.