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  Table D-7. Sustainment capabilities
  Organization Capabilities
  • Provide sustainment support which includes logistics support, conduct
  human resources support, conduct financial and comptroller support, and
  provide health service support.
  Expeditionary
  • Plan, integrate, synchronize and assess Army common and special
  Sustainment Command
  operations forces sustainment requirements.
  • Rapidly deploy to conduct theater opening, distribution management and
  reception, staging and onward movement of forces.
  • Provide responsibility for the integration, synchronization, and execution
  of sustainment operations for a division.
  • Command and control of up to seven battalions.
  Division sustainment
  • Coordinate and synchronize tactical-level sustainment operations to meet
  brigade
  current and future operations.
  • Provide general support to units assigned or attached to the division and
  operating in the division areas of operations.
  ARMY HEALTH SYSTEM
  D-11. The Army Health System is a component of the Military Health System that is responsible for
  operational management of the HSS and FHP missions for training, pre-deployment, deployment, and
  postdeployment operations. Army Health System includes all mission support services performed, provided,
  or arranged by the Army Medicine to support health service support and force health protection mission
  requirements for the Army and as directed, for joint, intergovernmental agencies, coalition, and multinational
  forces (FM 4-02). The AHS is a complex system of systems, divided into ten medical functions and aligned
  with medical disciplines. These systems are interrelated and interdependent and must be continuously and
  meticulously synchronized. The AHS uses medical command and control organizations to manage the
  subordinate units providing AHS and FHP (see table D-8).
  Table D-8. Medical capabilities
  Organization Capabilities
  MEDCOM (DS) • Command and control of theater medical units providing AHS support within the
  AO.
  • Management, coordination, and patient tracking procedures with the theater patient
  movement center staff section.
  • Synchronization of intratheater evacuation plans with the intertheater evacuation
  plan to ensure a seamless transition between tactical and strategic evacuation
  systems.
  • Coordination and orchestration of medical logistic operations to include Class VIII
  supply, distribution, medical maintenance and repair support, optical fabrication,
  and blood management.
  • Veterinary technical supervision for animal medical care, food protection, and
  veterinary public health support.
  • Operations public health support for medical and (OEH surveillance, potable water
  inspection, pest management, food facility inspection, and control of medical and
  nonmedical waste.
  • Assistance with coordination and integration of strategic capabilities from the
  sustaining base to units in the AO.
  • Staff planning, supervision of operations, and administration of assigned and
  attached medical units.