text: Surgeon and Surgeon Section
  Figure C-1. Surgeon link to medical and warfighting functions
  Figure C-2. Ten medical functions aligned with warfighting functions
  SURGEON SECTION
  C-4. The surgeon section works with many personal, special, and coordinating staffs. At different echelons,
  they work closely with two functional cells, protection and sustainment. At the theater, corps, and division
  level, there are chiefs of protection and sustainment. At the brigade and battalion level, the S-3 is responsible
  for protection and the S-4 is responsible for sustainment. Force health protection falls within the chief of
  protection/S-3’s functional area. Health service support falls within the chief of sustainment’s/S-4 functional
  area. The responsibility of the entire AHS support structure, which includes both FHP and HSS medical
  functions, rests with the surgeon. Figure C-3 on page C-4 depicts the coordination and synchronization
  relationship shared between the surgeon, their staffs, and the chief of the protection/S-3 and chief of
  sustainment/S-4 cells.