AMEDD BOLC Midterm Exam Questions and Answers
(Graded A+)
The AMEDD views threats from what two perspectives? – ANSWER: General threat
and health threat
What is a health threat? - ANSWER: composite of ongoing potential enemy actions;
adverse environmental, occupational, and geographic and meteorological
conditions, endemic diseases, CBRN, etc
What is health Service Support (HSS)? - ANSWER: All support and services
performed, provided, and arranged by the AMEDD to promote, improve, conserve, or
restore the mental and physical well being of personnel in the Army.
Anything that helps improve the physical and mental state of people in the Army.
What are the 3 components of Health Service Support? - ANSWER: Casualty Care:
treatment, hospitalization, dental, neuropsych, and lab services
Medical evacuation: medical regulating and en route care
Medical logistics: all subcomponents and services
What is Force Health Protection (FHP)? - ANSWER: Measures to promote, improve,
or conserve the mental and physical well-being of Soldiers.
What is involved in Force Health Protection? - ANSWER: -Preventative medicine
-Veterinary services, food inspection, zoonotic disease prevention
-Combat operational stress control (COSC)
-Dental services (preventative)
-Lab services and support
What is the Army health System? - ANSWER: All encompassing term to describe both
the HSS and FHP aspects of AMEDD support.
What are the 3 parts of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3)? - ANSWER: Care Under
Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
,What are the 6 principles of the Army health System? - ANSWER: 1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4? - ANSWER: Role 1: BN aid station and below
-Immediate life saving measures
Role 2: Medical company
-X-ray, lab, dental, patient hold, pharmacy, advanced trauma
Role 3: Field hospital
-Resuscitation, wound surgery, postoperative treatment
Role 4: Definitive Care
-Full spectrum of definitive medical care
Is sequential evacuation necessary? (Role 1 > Role 2 > Role 3 > Role 4) - No. For
example you can go from Role 1 to Role 3
What is the role of the command surgeon? - ANSWER: Special staff officer that plans
and monitors execution of the AHS mission
Ensures all Medical Functions and operational planning factors are planned and
synchronized in operation plans and orders
Not a commander. May recommend policy/procedures but can't give orders except
through unit plans and orders
What are the primary tasks of mission command functions? - ANSWER: Mission
command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations? - ANSWER: Medical command
(Deployment support)- medical force provider
, Medical brigade (Support)-provide mission command of all attached/assigned AHS
units
Medical Battalion (Multifunctional)-provide mission command, administrative
assistance, logistical support, and technical supervision capability
What are the responsibilities of the medical commander? - ANSWER: Exercises
mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate medical resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon? - ANSWER: At all levels of
command, a command surgeon is designated. This AMEDD officer is a special staff
officer charged with planning for and executing the AHS mission
What are the responsibilities of the line commander? - ANSWER: The commander
ensures health promotion program. This encompasses the assets of educational,
environmental, and AHS support services
What is the Law of Land Warfare inspired by? What does it do? - ANSWER: The
desire to diminish the evils of war
-Protects combatants and noncombatants from unnecessary suffering
-Safeguards certain fundamental human rights of persons who fall into the hands of
the enemy, particularly detainees/enemy prisoners of war, the wounded and sick,
and civilians
-Facilitates the restoration of peace
What are possible operation variables? (Known as PMESII-PT) - ANSWER: Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
Physical environment
Time
Name the possible mission variables. (Known as METT-TC) - ANSWER: Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops and support available
Time available
Civil considerations
What is task organization? - ANSWER: A tool used by commanders to tailor their
forces to specific mission requirements. Task-organization is a temporary grouping
of forces designed to accomplish a particular mission
(Graded A+)
The AMEDD views threats from what two perspectives? – ANSWER: General threat
and health threat
What is a health threat? - ANSWER: composite of ongoing potential enemy actions;
adverse environmental, occupational, and geographic and meteorological
conditions, endemic diseases, CBRN, etc
What is health Service Support (HSS)? - ANSWER: All support and services
performed, provided, and arranged by the AMEDD to promote, improve, conserve, or
restore the mental and physical well being of personnel in the Army.
Anything that helps improve the physical and mental state of people in the Army.
What are the 3 components of Health Service Support? - ANSWER: Casualty Care:
treatment, hospitalization, dental, neuropsych, and lab services
Medical evacuation: medical regulating and en route care
Medical logistics: all subcomponents and services
What is Force Health Protection (FHP)? - ANSWER: Measures to promote, improve,
or conserve the mental and physical well-being of Soldiers.
What is involved in Force Health Protection? - ANSWER: -Preventative medicine
-Veterinary services, food inspection, zoonotic disease prevention
-Combat operational stress control (COSC)
-Dental services (preventative)
-Lab services and support
What is the Army health System? - ANSWER: All encompassing term to describe both
the HSS and FHP aspects of AMEDD support.
What are the 3 parts of Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TC3)? - ANSWER: Care Under
Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
,What are the 6 principles of the Army health System? - ANSWER: 1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4? - ANSWER: Role 1: BN aid station and below
-Immediate life saving measures
Role 2: Medical company
-X-ray, lab, dental, patient hold, pharmacy, advanced trauma
Role 3: Field hospital
-Resuscitation, wound surgery, postoperative treatment
Role 4: Definitive Care
-Full spectrum of definitive medical care
Is sequential evacuation necessary? (Role 1 > Role 2 > Role 3 > Role 4) - No. For
example you can go from Role 1 to Role 3
What is the role of the command surgeon? - ANSWER: Special staff officer that plans
and monitors execution of the AHS mission
Ensures all Medical Functions and operational planning factors are planned and
synchronized in operation plans and orders
Not a commander. May recommend policy/procedures but can't give orders except
through unit plans and orders
What are the primary tasks of mission command functions? - ANSWER: Mission
command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations? - ANSWER: Medical command
(Deployment support)- medical force provider
, Medical brigade (Support)-provide mission command of all attached/assigned AHS
units
Medical Battalion (Multifunctional)-provide mission command, administrative
assistance, logistical support, and technical supervision capability
What are the responsibilities of the medical commander? - ANSWER: Exercises
mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate medical resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon? - ANSWER: At all levels of
command, a command surgeon is designated. This AMEDD officer is a special staff
officer charged with planning for and executing the AHS mission
What are the responsibilities of the line commander? - ANSWER: The commander
ensures health promotion program. This encompasses the assets of educational,
environmental, and AHS support services
What is the Law of Land Warfare inspired by? What does it do? - ANSWER: The
desire to diminish the evils of war
-Protects combatants and noncombatants from unnecessary suffering
-Safeguards certain fundamental human rights of persons who fall into the hands of
the enemy, particularly detainees/enemy prisoners of war, the wounded and sick,
and civilians
-Facilitates the restoration of peace
What are possible operation variables? (Known as PMESII-PT) - ANSWER: Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
Physical environment
Time
Name the possible mission variables. (Known as METT-TC) - ANSWER: Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops and support available
Time available
Civil considerations
What is task organization? - ANSWER: A tool used by commanders to tailor their
forces to specific mission requirements. Task-organization is a temporary grouping
of forces designed to accomplish a particular mission
