Review of Marine Corps Expeditionary Force Preventive Medicine Materiel Requirements
Abstract
A review of the preventive medicine (PM) Authorized Medical Allowance Lists (AMALs) 637/638 was conducted by the Naval Health Research Center and held at Medical Logistics Company, Camp Pendleton, 2002. Twenty-seven subject matter experts (SMEs) from 14 Navy and Marine Corps commands were assembled and tasked with identifying the primary PM objectives required in a theater of operations. For the 10 primary PM objectives identified, task profiles detailing the step-by-step approach used to achieve the objectives were constructed. SMEs were asked to assign the supplies required to conduct the tasks, and to estimate the relative frequency of each task under the conditions of a worst-case scenario conflict. Finally, the number of times each PM task might be conducted and the type and quantity of materiel projected was then organized into deployable PM modules. This report outlines the mission and task-based approach used to ensure that AMALs 637 and 638 contain the medical equipment and supplies needed by the PM personnel (including PM officers, environmental health officers, entomologists, industrial hygiene officers, and PM technicians) to provide force health protection and occupational and environmental health surveillance in all expeditionary environments, as well as the recommended reconfigurations resulting from these analyses. The theater PM objectives were water sanitation, pest control, heat injury/cold injury prevention, disease surveillance and control, food safety, field sanitation, habitability, waste management, industrial hygiene, and training.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 30, 2003
- Accession Number
- ADA430031
Entities
People
- Michael R. Galarneau
- Nathan Edwards
- Paula J. Konoske
Organizations
- Naval Health Research Center