Casualty of Peace: The Army Medical Department in 2003

Abstract

This paper uses the format of a hypothetical congressional response to provide a vision of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) in the year 2003. The author foresees an AMEDD structured as a primarily civilian, catchment area management system to support nonactive duty beneficiaries with a parallel, wartime requirements-based structure to provide health care for active duty forces. The author argues for creation of deployable, embedded tactical health care units (ETUs) and a unified health command (HEALTHCOM) in the continental United States (CONUS) to plan and coordinate contingency health care to support the overseas unified commanders in chief (CINCs).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA276880

Entities

People

  • Harland G. Lewis Jr.

Organizations

  • Dwight D. Eisenhower School for National Security and Resource Strategy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Combat Forces
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Homeland Security
  • Disasters
  • Employment
  • Governments
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Hospitals
  • Humanitarian Assistance
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Patient Care Management
  • Personnel Management
  • United States Government

Readers

  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Medical or Health Care Field.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.