Individual contractors, individual subcontractors at all tiers, contractor employees, and sub-contractor employees at all tiers under all contracts supporting the Military Services during contingency operations.

A Service, combatant command, or Joint Staff directorate assigned coordinating authority to lead the collaborative development and integration of joint capability with specific responsibilities designated by the Secretary of Defense.

A mission requiring a force to support another specific force and authorizing it to answer directly to the supported force’s request for assistance. Also called DS.

1. Removal of a patient by any of a variety of transport means from a theater of military operation, or between health services capabilities, for the purpose of preventing further illness or injury, providing additional care, or providing disposition of patients from the military health care system. 2. The clearance of personnel, animals, or materiel...

The characterization of health support for the distribution of medical resources and capabilities.  a. Role 1.  Provides medical treatment, initial trauma care, and forward resuscitation, not including surgical care.  Also known as unit-level medical care.  b. Role 2.  Provides medical treatment, advanced trauma management, emerge...

The coordinating process that incorporates operational, clinical, and regulating considerations into comprehensive guidance for the real-time management of PM activities.

The point during the continuum of care where responsibility for PM transitions from Joint Theater Patient Evacuation (JTPE), managed by a patient evacuation coordination cell (PECC), to patient movement (PM) managed by a Patient Movement Requirements Center (PMRC). This point of transition will usually occur at Role 2 or 3 following pre-hospital care and ...

For the purpose of this issuance, the defense transportation system is that portion of the worldwide transportation infrastructure that supports DoD common-user transportation needs, including global PM in both peacetime and wartime. It consists of common-user military and commercial assets, services, and systems organic to, contracted for, or controlled ...

Chaired by the USTRANSCOM Surgeon and comprised of representatives from across the DoD and Intergovernmental PM enterprise, the GPMJAB provides recommendations toward global PM policy guidance, processes and equipment standardization, and PM enabling information support systems. Additionally, the GPMJAB serves as the DoD subject matter expert advisory bod...

The term includes uniformed service members, the expeditionary civilian workforce, contingency contractor personnel, and all other PM eligible, or designated, personnel and military working animals.

Working animals individually trained to perform specific tasks for people with disabilities, such as guiding people who are blind, alerting people who are deaf, pulling wheelchairs, alerting and protecting a person who is having a seizure, or performing other special tasks.

The continued provision of care during patient movement between the roles of medical care; en route care is delivered by qualified medical personnel to optimize positive patient outcomes.

A joint activity reporting directly to the Commander, USTRANSCOM that serves as the DOD single manager for the development of policy and standardization of procedures and information support systems for global Patient Movement (PM). The Command Surgeon’s Office implements policy and standardized procedures for the regulation, clinical standards, and...

A radiographic finding on computed tomography, magnetic resonance imaging, or bone scan of increased metabolic activity at a site of bone turnover that does not yet show cortical disruption. Stress reactions are often asymptomatic but considered a precursor to a stress fracture.

A licensed provider working within their scope of practice who assumes responsibility for management, treatment, or ongoing care of a patient.