U.S. Army FM 4-02.1 Combat Health Logistics.pdf

Combat health logistics (CHL), to include blood management, is one of the major Army Medical
Department (AMEDD) functional areas. Under the Medical Force 2000 (MF2K) concept, CHL in a theater
of operations (TO) is provided by the medical battalion, logistics (forward), the medical battalion, logistics
(rear), the theater medical materiel management center, and the medical detachment (logistics support).
These organizations were designed based upon the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) scenario
and workloads. Current MF2K CHL doctrine is articulated in Field Manual (FM) 8-10-9.
Under Force XXI and the medical reengineering initiative (MRI), theater CHL will be provided by
five new tables of organization and equipment (TOEs) organizations and a table of distribution and
allowances (TDA) element from the United States (US) Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA) (see
Chapter 3). These new TOEs organizations were designed based on lessons learned from Desert Shield/
Desert Storm and recent contingency operations.
The purpose of this publication is to describe the CHL in support of a Force Projection Army into the
21st Century. It embodies doctrine based on the MRI and the A-edition TOE. The organizational
structures presented in this publication reflect those established in the A-edition TOE in effect on the date of
this publication. For a copy of your modified TOE, contact the Authorizations Documentation Directorate,
9900 Belvoir Road, Suite 120, ATTN: MOFI-FMA, Fort Belvoir, Virginia 22060-2287.