HM2 ADVANCEMENT COMPREHENSIVE EXAM 2026
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Official Paper Immunization Record - ✔✔-A printed report from the electronic ITS, in
CDC Form 731 (International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis)
-SF 601 (Health Record-Immunization Record)
-DD -Form 2766C (Adult Preventive and Chronic Care Flowsheet) (Continuation Sheet)
format
*Must be accompanied by an official clinic stamp and the authorized signature and
printed name of an authenticating official
✔✔Principles of Joint Health Services - ✔✔conformity, proximity, flexibility, mobility,
continuity, and control.
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔providing health support to sick, injured, and wounded military
personnel at the right time to keep morbidity and mortality to a minimum; it can be
measured by the case fatality rate.
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔being prepared and empowered to shift medical resources to meet
changing requirements. The medical commander exercises command authority to
effectively manage scarce medical resources so they benefit the greatest number of
military personnel in the joint operations area (JOA).
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔ensures medical assets remain within supporting distance of
maneuvering forces.
✔✔Continuity - ✔✔achieved by moving the patient to a higher role of care, either
through the roles of care or bypassing to a more appropriate role of care (depending on
injuries), extending from the point of injury (POI) to definitive care.
✔✔Control - ✔✔required to ensure scarce medical resources are efficiently employed to
support the joint force commander's (JFC's) tactical, operational, and strategic plan.
✔✔Three Forms of En Route Care - ✔✔-CASEVAC
-MEDEVAC
-AE (Aeromedical Evacuation)
✔✔Health service support beyond the organic capabilities of the GCE and ACE are
normally provided by - ✔✔task-organized units of the medical and dental battalions of
the MLG.
✔✔Class VIII - ✔✔Medical Supplies and Equipment
, ✔✔Shock Trauma Platoon - ✔✔smallest most mobile medical support platoon of the
medical battalion, it can serve as a BAS, operate as an intermediate casualty collecting
and clearing point between forward medical elements and the SC, or serve as the
forward element of an FRSS/SC preparing to relocate.
✔✔Surgical Company - ✔✔supports regimental-sized operations and receives
casualties from units or individuals providing first response Role I medical treatment.
✔✔Forward Resuscitative Surgical System - ✔✔one of the smallest possible units for
provision of surgical care to combat casualties. The primary unit for resuscitative
treatment.
2 surgeons.
1 anesthesiologist.
1 critical care nurse.
1 independent duty corpsman (surgery/emergency room).
1 field medical technician.
2 operating room technicians.
✔✔En Route Care Platton - ✔✔an essential follow-on for the FRSS, composed of one
critical care nurse and one corpsman (8404), with three teams per SC. Capable of
providing medical care for two critically injured/ill, but stabilized, patients for 2 hours
during flight.
✔✔Health Services Augmentation Program (HSAP) - ✔✔the means by which medical
support personnel are brought to operational units from Navy MTFs. The program's
personnel are Marine Corps assets managed in peace time by the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery (BUMED), US Fleet Forces Command, and the office of the Chief of Naval
Operations.
✔✔Naval Disease Reporting System (BUMEDINST 6220.12) - ✔✔Report all Navy heat
stress injuries
✔✔MCO P5102.01 and BUMEDINST 6220.12 - ✔✔Report all Marine Corps heat stress
injuries
✔✔Absolute Humidity (AH) - ✔✔The mass of water vapor present per unit volume of air
✔✔Relative Humidity (RH) - ✔✔The ratio of the moisture content of the air to the
maximum possible moisture content at the same temperature.
✔✔Dew Point - ✔✔the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes
saturated and condensation begins
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS GRADED A+
✔✔Official Paper Immunization Record - ✔✔-A printed report from the electronic ITS, in
CDC Form 731 (International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis)
-SF 601 (Health Record-Immunization Record)
-DD -Form 2766C (Adult Preventive and Chronic Care Flowsheet) (Continuation Sheet)
format
*Must be accompanied by an official clinic stamp and the authorized signature and
printed name of an authenticating official
✔✔Principles of Joint Health Services - ✔✔conformity, proximity, flexibility, mobility,
continuity, and control.
✔✔Proximity - ✔✔providing health support to sick, injured, and wounded military
personnel at the right time to keep morbidity and mortality to a minimum; it can be
measured by the case fatality rate.
✔✔Flexibility - ✔✔being prepared and empowered to shift medical resources to meet
changing requirements. The medical commander exercises command authority to
effectively manage scarce medical resources so they benefit the greatest number of
military personnel in the joint operations area (JOA).
✔✔Mobility - ✔✔ensures medical assets remain within supporting distance of
maneuvering forces.
✔✔Continuity - ✔✔achieved by moving the patient to a higher role of care, either
through the roles of care or bypassing to a more appropriate role of care (depending on
injuries), extending from the point of injury (POI) to definitive care.
✔✔Control - ✔✔required to ensure scarce medical resources are efficiently employed to
support the joint force commander's (JFC's) tactical, operational, and strategic plan.
✔✔Three Forms of En Route Care - ✔✔-CASEVAC
-MEDEVAC
-AE (Aeromedical Evacuation)
✔✔Health service support beyond the organic capabilities of the GCE and ACE are
normally provided by - ✔✔task-organized units of the medical and dental battalions of
the MLG.
✔✔Class VIII - ✔✔Medical Supplies and Equipment
, ✔✔Shock Trauma Platoon - ✔✔smallest most mobile medical support platoon of the
medical battalion, it can serve as a BAS, operate as an intermediate casualty collecting
and clearing point between forward medical elements and the SC, or serve as the
forward element of an FRSS/SC preparing to relocate.
✔✔Surgical Company - ✔✔supports regimental-sized operations and receives
casualties from units or individuals providing first response Role I medical treatment.
✔✔Forward Resuscitative Surgical System - ✔✔one of the smallest possible units for
provision of surgical care to combat casualties. The primary unit for resuscitative
treatment.
2 surgeons.
1 anesthesiologist.
1 critical care nurse.
1 independent duty corpsman (surgery/emergency room).
1 field medical technician.
2 operating room technicians.
✔✔En Route Care Platton - ✔✔an essential follow-on for the FRSS, composed of one
critical care nurse and one corpsman (8404), with three teams per SC. Capable of
providing medical care for two critically injured/ill, but stabilized, patients for 2 hours
during flight.
✔✔Health Services Augmentation Program (HSAP) - ✔✔the means by which medical
support personnel are brought to operational units from Navy MTFs. The program's
personnel are Marine Corps assets managed in peace time by the Bureau of Medicine
and Surgery (BUMED), US Fleet Forces Command, and the office of the Chief of Naval
Operations.
✔✔Naval Disease Reporting System (BUMEDINST 6220.12) - ✔✔Report all Navy heat
stress injuries
✔✔MCO P5102.01 and BUMEDINST 6220.12 - ✔✔Report all Marine Corps heat stress
injuries
✔✔Absolute Humidity (AH) - ✔✔The mass of water vapor present per unit volume of air
✔✔Relative Humidity (RH) - ✔✔The ratio of the moisture content of the air to the
maximum possible moisture content at the same temperature.
✔✔Dew Point - ✔✔the temperature at which the water vapor in the air becomes
saturated and condensation begins