Command opportunities are being sharply increased for health services officers under a professional development initiative prompted by Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno.
Under the implementation plan approved by Army Surgeon General Lt. Gen. Patricia Horoho in mid-November, Army Medical Department lieutenant colonel- and colonel-level commands will be commanded by officers designated for such duties by Centralized Selection List boards.
Under the previous system, medical commands have been staffed with a combination of CSL and non-CSL officers. The new alignment not only increases command opportunity across the Army Medical Command, but allows for more lieutenant colonel-level commands than colonel commands.
Changes to the AMEDD command pyramid are designed to hone the leadership skills and professional development of officers in the health services, which consists of the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Nurse Corps, Medical Specialist Corps, Medical Service Corps and Veterinary Corps.
A summary of the ongoing changes follows.Command categories are designated by the position codes to be used in the CSL process.
Deployable medical support commands in the reserve components will remain general officer commands, while the commander of the Army Dental Command will continue to be selected by an advisory panel to the Army surgeon general.
Lieutenant Colonel-level Commands
M5AP (AMEDD Operations) – 561st Multifunctional Medical Battalion, Fort Hood, Texas; 61st MMB, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Wash.; 168th MMB, Camp Walker, South Korea; 261st MMB, Fort Bragg, N.C., and 421st MMB, Baumholder, Germany.
M5BP (Veterinary Service) – 43d Medical Detachment Veterinary Service, Fort Hood; 64th MDVS, Germany; 72d MDVS, Fort Campbell, Ky.; 196th MDVS, South Korea; 218th MDVS, Joint Base Lewis-McChord; 248th MDVS, Fort Bragg, N. C., 438th MDVS, Fort Carson, Colo., and 463d MDVS, Fort Benning, Ga.
M5AR (AMEDD Strategic Support)
• Medical Department Activities, Fort Eustis, Va., Fort Huachuca, Ariz., Fort Irwin, Calif., Fort Leavenworth, Kan., Fort Lee, Va., Fort Rucker (Aeromedical Center Activity), Ala.
• Army Health Clinics, Grafenwoehr, Germany, Hohenfels, Germany, Vilsek, Germany, Wiesbaden, Germany, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., Carlisle Barracks, Pa., Fort Detrick, Md., Fort Meyer, Va., Hunter Army Airfield, Ga., Presidio of Monterey, Calif., Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, Southern Command (Miami, Fla.), Vicenza, Italy, and White Sands, N. M.
• Troop commands for Army medical centers and Army Medical Department activities, Brooke AMC, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, Texas; Darnall AMC, Fort Hood; Eisenhower AMC, Fort Gordon, Ga.; Landstuhl AMC, Germany; Madigan AMC, Joint Base Lewis-McChord; Beaumont AMC, Fort Bliss, Texas; Womack AMC, Fort Bragg; Fort Benning; Fort Campbell; Fort Carson; Army element south; Fort Belvoir, Va., and the Army Medical Materiel Center, South Korea.
• Public health command organizations, Camp Zama, Japan; Fort Belvoir; Fort Bragg; Fort Carson; Fort Gordon; Fort Hood; Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Shafter, Hawaii; Joint Base Lewis-McChord; Northern Europe, Kaiserslautern, Germany; San Diego, Calif.; Southern Europe, Vicenza, Italy, and Western Pacific, Guam.
• Army Center for Environmental Health Research, Fort Detrick, Md.
M5DR (Dental Strategic Support) – Dental activities, Fort Wainwright, Alaska; Bavaria, Germany; Fort Drum, N. Y.; Fort Knox; Fort Lee; Fort Leonard Wood, Mo.; Fort Meade, Md.; Fort Polk, La.; Fort Riley, Kan.; Vicenza, Italy, and West Point, N. Y.
M5AT (AMEDD Recruiting and Training) – the 187th, 232d and 264th training battalions of the 32d Medical Brigade, AMEDD Center and School, Fort Sam Houston; the 1st Medical Recruiting Battalion, Fort Meade; 2d MRB, Redstone Arsenal, Ala.; 3d MRB, Fort Knox; 5th MRB, Fort Sam Houston, and the 6th MRB, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev.
Colonel-level Commands
M6AP (AMEDD Operations Level 1 CSL) – 10th Combat Support Hospital, For Carson; 14th CSH, Fort Benning; 21st CSH, Fort Hood; 28th CSH, Fort Bragg; 31st CSH, Fort Bliss; 47th CSH, Joint Base Lewis-McChord; 86th CSH, Fort Campbell; 115th CSH, Fort Polk; 121st CSH, South Korea, and the 212th CSH, Germany.
M6AR (AMEDD Strategic support Level 1 CSL)
• Hospitals – Fort Wainwright, Alaska; Bavaria, Germany; Fort Drum; Fort Jackson, S.C.; Fort Knox, Ky.; Fort Leonard Wood; Fort Meade; Fort Polk; Fort Riley; Fort Sill, Okla., Fort Stewart, Ga., and West Point.
• Army Health Clinics – SHAPE, Belgium; Stuttgart, Germany; Camp Zama, Japan; Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, and Redstone Arsenal.
• Troop commands of Tripler AMC, Hawaii, and Army Element-North, Walter Reed National Medical Center, Md.
• Army Medical Research Institute of Chemical Defense, Aberdeen Proving Ground; Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine, Natick, Mass.; Army Aeronautical Research Laboratory, Fort Rucker; Army Institute of Surgical Research, Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston, and Army Medical Materiel Development Activity, Fort Detrick, Md.
• Public health commands - South at Joint Base San Antonio; North at Fort Meade, Md.; Pacific at Camp Zama, Japan, and Europe at Landstuhl, Germany.
• First Area Medical Laboratory, Aberdeen Proving Ground; 6th Medical Logistics Management Center, Fort Detrick, and Army Medical Materiel Center-Europe, Pirmasens, Germany.
M6AT (AMEDD Recruiting and Training) – 32d Medical Brigade, Joint Base San Antonio, and AMEDD Recruiting Brigade, Fort Knox.
M6CZ (AMEDD Installation) – Fort Detrick, Md.
M6DP (Dental Operations) – 257th MCDS, Fort Bragg; 502d MCDS Fort Hood and the 673d MCDS Joint Base Lewis-McChord.
M6DR (Dental Strategic Support Level 1) – Dental Activities at Fort Benning, Fort Bragg, Fort Campbell, Fort Carson, Fort Hood, Fort Jackson, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Korea, Joint Base San Antonio, Fort Sill and Fort Stewart.
M7AR (AMEDD Strategic Support Level 2 CSL) – MEDDAC, Fort Benning; MEDDAC, Fort Campbell; MEDDAC, Fort Carson; Darnall AMC, Fort Hood; Eisenhower AMC, Fort Gordon; Landstuhl AMC, Germany; Madigan AMC, Tripler AMC, Hawaii; Womack AMC, Fort Bragg; Beaumont AMC, Fort Bliss; Walter Reed Institute of Research; Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Disease.
M7DR (Dental Strategic Support Level 2 CSL) – Regional dental commands: European, Landstuhl, Germany; Pacific, Hawaii; Northern, Fort Belvoir and western, Fort Bliss.
M7AP (AMEDD Operations Level 2 CSL) – 1st Medical Brigade, Fort Hood; 18th Medical Command, Deployable support, Hawaii; 30th Medical Brigade, Germany; 44th Medical Brigade, Fort Bragg; 62d Medical Brigade, Joint Base Lewis-McChord, and 65th Medical Brigade, South Korea.
