duty. The medical support system is a single, inThe Army Medical Department supports all ele- tegrated system that reaches from the area of opments of the Army and is primarily concerned erations to the Zone of Interior (ZI). with maintaining the health and fighting efficiency of the individual soldier. The mission of 2-2. Characteristics the Army Medical Department in a theater of op- Medical support is continuing and interzonal. Eferations is to conserve the fighting strength of ficiency of operations depends on the effective disthe Army by recommending, supervising, and im- tribution of patients to those medical facilities plementing measures for safeguarding the health that are capable of providing the required treatof the troops through effective medical care and ment in the shortest possible time.
DesignationFM 8-10
EditionApr 1970
StatusSuperseded
Pages136
FunctionMedical TCCC
CollectionHistoric
Public domain (U.S. Government work)