AMEDD BOLC Midterm Exam Questions
and Correct Detailed Answers
What is the Army health System?
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)?
Care Under Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
What are the 6 principles of the Army health System?
1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4?
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?
,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?
Mission command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations?
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?
Exercises mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate
medical resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon?
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?
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?
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)
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
Physical environment
Time
Name the possible mission variables. (Known as METT-TC)
Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops and support available
Time available
Civil considerations
What is task organization?
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
What are the four supporting tasks to decisive operations?
Offensive tasks
Defensive tasks
and Correct Detailed Answers
What is the Army health System?
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)?
Care Under Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
What are the 6 principles of the Army health System?
1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4?
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?
,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?
Mission command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations?
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?
Exercises mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate
medical resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon?
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?
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?
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)
Political
Military
Economic
Social
Infrastructure
Information
Physical environment
Time
Name the possible mission variables. (Known as METT-TC)
Mission
Enemy
Terrain and weather
Troops and support available
Time available
Civil considerations
What is task organization?
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
What are the four supporting tasks to decisive operations?
Offensive tasks
Defensive tasks
