AMEDD BOLC Midterm questions and answers
2026\2027 A+ Grade
The AMEDD views threats from what two perspectives?
- correct answer General threat and health threat
What is a health threat?
- correct 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)?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)?
- correct answer Measures to promote, improve, or conserve the mental and physical well-being of
Soldiers.
What is involved in Force Health Protection?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)?
- correct answer Care Under Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
What are the 6 principles of the Army health System?
- correct answer 1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4?
- correct 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)
- correct answer No. For example you can go from Role 1 to Role 3
What is the role of the command surgeon?
- correct 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?
- correct answer Mission command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
, Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations?
- correct 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?
- correct answer Exercises mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate medical
resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon?
- correct 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?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)
- correct answer Political
Military
2026\2027 A+ Grade
The AMEDD views threats from what two perspectives?
- correct answer General threat and health threat
What is a health threat?
- correct 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)?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)?
- correct answer Measures to promote, improve, or conserve the mental and physical well-being of
Soldiers.
What is involved in Force Health Protection?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)?
- correct answer Care Under Fire
Tactical Field Care
Tactical Evacuation
What are the 6 principles of the Army health System?
- correct answer 1. Conformity
2. Proximity
3. Flexibility
4. Mobility
5. Continuity
6. Control
What are Roles 1, 2 3 and 4?
- correct 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)
- correct answer No. For example you can go from Role 1 to Role 3
What is the role of the command surgeon?
- correct 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?
- correct answer Mission command
Communications and computers
Task organization
Medical intelligence
Technical supervision
, Regional focus
What are the 3 mission command organizations?
- correct 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?
- correct answer Exercises mission command (authority and direction) over his subordinate medical
resources
What are the responsibilities of the command surgeon?
- correct 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?
- correct 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?
- correct 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)
- correct answer Political
Military
