A casualty category applicable to a hostile casualty, other than the victim of a terrorist activity, who has incurred an injury due to an external agent or cause. The term encompasses all kinds of wounds and other injuries incurred in action, whether there is a piercing of the body, as in a penetration or perforated wound, or none, as in the contused woun...

The combined military blood programs of the Armed Services Blood Program Division, the individual Military Services, and the combat commands in a single integrated blood and blood products support system for peacetime and across the range of military operations.

A Tri-Service staffed BDC under the operational control of the designated SBPO.

A policy directive from the Defense Health Agency, Armed Services Blood Program Division to the functional blood banking community (i.e. Blood Donor Centers, transfusion service activities and Joint Blood Program Officer) addressing regulatory or ASD(HA) requirements and the necessary steps for implementation of directives across the Military Health ...

All measures taken by commanders, supervisors, individual Service members, and the MHS to promote, protect, improve, conserve, and restore the mental and physical well being of Service members across the range of military activities and operations. These measures enable the fielding of a healthy and fit force, prevention of injuries and illness and protec...

A facility established for the purpose of furnishing medical and/or dental care to eligible individuals.

The Food and Drug Administration division responsible for establishing blood banking regulations and requirements and grants licenses and approvals to products complying with those standards.

A Service-nominated field grade officer assigned to a combatant command Command Surgeon’s staff and responsible as the single integrated medical logistics manager for joint blood product management in support of combatant command operations.

May be Service (Army, Navy, Air Force) or tri-Service operated. Responsibilities include collection, processing, manufacturing, testing, and distribution of blood products. Blood donor centers may be collocated with a blood bank in a military treatment facility.

A medical provider who is licensed, credentialed, and experienced in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health conditions and is privileged at a Military Treatment Facility (in the direct care system). Private care sector civilian TRICARE authorized mental health providers may be involved in a specific active duty service member’s care. These pro...

Health care services or supplies necessary to prevent, diagnose, or treat an illness, injury, condition, disease, or its symptoms; and that meet accepted standards of medicine.

Support network for a service member that may be informal (e.g.: friends, family, co-workers, social media.) or formal (e.g.: medical professionals, counselors, clergy).

Gender transition in the military begins when a service member receives a diagnosis from a military medical provider indicating the service member’s gender transition is medically necessary, and concludes when the service member’s gender marker in DEERS is changed and the service member is recognized in the self-identified gender. 

An individual’s internal or personal sense of gender, which may or may not match the individual’s biological sex.

Period of time when individuals change from the gender role associated with their sex assigned at birth to a different gender role. For many people, this involves learning how to live socially in another gender role. For others, this means finding a gender role and expression that are most comfortable for them. Transition may or may not include feminizati...