text: Surgeon and Surgeon Section
  SURGEON SUPPORT OPERATIONS ELEMENT
  C-10. Specific functions of the surgeon support operations element include, but are not limited to:
  * Manages health services resources in the AO to provide effective and consistent treatment of
  wounded, injured, or sick personnel as to return to full duty or evacuate from the theater.
  * Monitors policies, protocols, and procedures pertaining to the medical and dental treatment of
  sick, injured and wounded personnel.
  * Determines requirements and priorities for medical logistics.
  * Evaluates and interprets medical statistical data.
  MEDICAL COMMAND (DEPLOYMENT SUPPORT) ROLE
  C-11. The MEDCOM (DS) commander is responsible for maintaining a regional focus in support of the GCC
  and ASCC theater engagement plan, while providing effective and timely direct FHP and HSS to tactical
  commanders and general support (GS) (on an area basis) to theater forces at EAB. The enduring regional
  focus of the ASCC drives organizational specialization in the supporting MEDCOM (DS) to address unique
  health threats, specific needs of the local populace, availability of other Service medical capabilities, and
  geographic factors that are distinctly related to a particular region. The MEDCOM (DS) coordinates with
  the ASCC surgeon (as the staff proponent with execution through G-3 channels under the authority of the
  ASCC commander) to provide AHS support within the AOR.
  C-12. As the theater medical command, the MEDCOM (DS) integrates, synchronizes, and provides
  command and control of MEDBDE (SPT), MMB, and other AHS units providing FHP and HSS to tactical
  commanders. The MEDCOM (DS) employs an operational CP and a main CP that can deploy autonomously
  into an operational area and employ based on the size and complexity of operations or the support required.
  Refer to Figure 2-3 on page 2-6 for an overview of a theater medical structure. Key tasks of a MEDCOM
  (DS) in support of the ASCC include:
  * Providing command and control of MEDBDE (SPT) and subordinate medical units.
  * Task-organizing medical elements based on specific medical requirements.
  * Monitoring health threats within each operational area and ensuring the availability of required
  medical capabilities to mitigate those threats.
  CORPS SURGEON
  C-13. The corps surgeon is a corps level officer and member of the commander’s personal and special staff.
  They normally work under the staff supervision of the corps chief of staff. The corps surgeon is charged
  with leading the planning and coordination of the AHS support mission within the corps. However, as
  personal staff, the corps surgeon is the principal advisor to the commander on the health status of the corps
  and has direct access to the corps commander on all AHS support or medical-related issues. The corps
  surgeon is responsible for the technical oversight of all medical activities in the command. The corps surgeon
  oversee and coordinate AHS support activities through the corps surgeon section. The corps surgeon also
  monitor, prioritize, synchronize, and assess AHS support; serve as medical contract officer for the corps; and
  provides an analysis of the health threat.
  C-14. Through medical command and control, the corps surgeon coordinates and synchronizes the ten
  medical functions split between the protection and sustainment warfighting functions and serves as a link
  between these varied commands and staffs.
  SURGEON ELEMENT
  C-15. The corps surgeon resides in the tactical command post within the surgeon element. This element is
  responsible for, but not limited to:
  * Oversees, monitors, and coordinates AHS support operations.
  * Provides current information on the corps AHS support plan/medical common operating picture
  (MEDCOP) to surgeons/medical operations staffs of the next higher, adjacent, and subordinate
  HQs to maintain medical situational awareness.