text: Appendix A
  Army Health System Support to the Army’s Strategic Roles
  The Army's primary mission is to organize, train, and equip its forces to conduct
  prompt and sustained land combat to defeat enemy ground forces and seize, occupy,
  and defend land areas. The Army accomplishes its mission by supporting the joint
  force in four strategic roles: shape OEs, prevent conflict, conduct large-scale ground
  combat operations, and consolidate gains. For more information on the Army’s
  strategic roles, refer to FM 3-0.
  SHAPE OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS
  A-1. Shaping activities are continuous within an area of responsibility. The CCDR (command authority)
  uses them to improve security within partner nations, enhance international legitimacy, gain multinational
  cooperation, and influence adversary decision making. This cooperation includes information exchange and
  intelligence sharing, obtaining access for U.S. forces in peacetime and crisis, and mitigating conditions that
  could lead to a crisis.
  A-2. Army forces conduct operations to shape OEs with various unified action partners through careful
  coordination and synchronization facilitated by the theater army through the GCC, and when authorized,
  directly with the partner nation's military forces. Army forces provide security cooperation capabilities area
  of responsibility-wide, including building defense and security relationships and partner military capacity
  through exercises and engagements, gaining or maintaining access to populations, supporting infrastructure
  through assistance visits, and fulfilling EA responsibilities. Military-to-military contacts and exchanges,
  joint and combined exercises, various long-term persistent military engagements, and other security
  cooperation activities provide the foundation of the GCC's theater campaign plan. Key medical
  considerations in support of operations to shape include:
  * Regionally focused medical command and control to promote unity of purpose of all engaged
  medical assets.
  * Medical information management to document health threat exposures and medical encounters,
  to report health surveillance data and information on the health of the command, and to accomplish
  medical regulating and patient tracking operations.
  * Traditional medical support to a deployed force engaged in performing these tasks.
  * Medical expertise and consultation to enhance building partnership capacity in public, private, and
  military health sectors of the host nation.
  * Development of regional theater security cooperation plans aimed at mitigating or resolving the
  underlying causes of health issues prevalent within the region.
  * Army Health System support for maintenance and execution of medical support agreements.
  * Home station medical readiness and training activities, and tailored force generation of medical
  combat power.
  * Army medical support to other Services and unified action partners, as well as assessment and
  release of theater Army prepositioned stocks and other medical logistics support.
  * Capability gaps and determine mitigation plan.
  * Theater evacuation policy adjustments.
  * Coordination with USTRANSCOM for patient movement plans.
  * Integration and interoperability of theater medical capabilities.
  * Army Health System support to foreign humanitarian assistance and disaster relief.
  * Medical preparation of the OE.