text: Appendix C
  * Advises on health threat requirements including the examination, processing of captured medical
  supplies, and recommending use of captured medical supplies in support of detainees and other
  recipients.
  * Coordinates dental services.
  * Coordinates COSC.
  * Ensures the establishment of a viable veterinary services program (including inspection of
  subsistence and outside the continental U.S. food production and bottled water facilities,
  veterinary preventive medicine, and animal medical care).
  * Ensures an area medical laboratory capability or procedures for obtaining this support from out of
  theater resources are established for the identification and confirmation of the use of suspect
  biological and chemical warfare agents by opposition forces. This includes the capability for
  specimens and samples, packaging and establishing handling requirements, and escort and chain
  of custody requirements.
  * Coordinates clinical laboratory capabilities, including blood banking.
  * Advises how operations affect the public health of personnel and the indigenous populations.
  * Provides recommendations on allocation, redistribution, determining requirements, and
  assignment of medical personnel.
  * Coordinates with medical unit commanders (to include leaders of medical platoons and sections)
  for continuous AHS support.
  * Provides consultation, mentoring, and technical supervision of subordinate surgeons, physicians,
  and physician assistants.
  * Submits to higher HQs those recommendations on professional medical problems that require
  research and development.
  * Determines AHS training requirements and provides health education and training.
  * Ensures field medical records and/or electronic medical records, when available, are maintained
  on each Solder at the primary MTF according to AR 40-66.
  * Assessing special equipment and procedures required to accomplish the AHS mission in specific
  environments such as urban operations, mountainous terrain, extreme cold weather operations,
  jungles, and deserts, requirements varies depending upon the scenario, and could include:
   Obtaining pieces of equipment of clothing not usually carries (piton hammers, extreme cold
  weather parka, jungle boots, or the like)
   Adapting medical equipment sets for a specific scenario to include adding items based on the
  forecasted types of injuries to be encountered (such as more crushing injuries and fractures in
  urban operations or mountain operations). In certain scenarios (such as urban operations),
  some medical supplies and equipment may not be carried into the fight initially (such as sick
  call materials), but rather brought forward by follow-on forces. In mountain operations, bulky
  or heavy items (such as extra tentage) may not accompany the force because of the difficulty
  in traversing the terrain.
   Having individual Soldiers carry additional medical items, such as bandages and intravenous
  fluids.
  C-2. Through medical command and control, the surgeon coordinates and synchronizes the medical
  functions within the protection and sustainment warfighting functions and serves as a link between these
  varied commands and staffs (See Figure C-1; on page C-3).
  C-3. Although AHS is broken down into two components; FHP which falls in the protection warfighting
  function and HSS which resides within the sustainment warfighting function, the AHS is functionally aligned
  with other warfighting fighting functions. Figure C-2 (on page C-3) below builds on Figure C-1 (on page
  C3) and depicts the 10 medical functions and how they are aligned within three warfighting functions.