The Multimodal Imperative: Modernizing Patient Movement in Contested Environments

Examines how Combat and Operational Stress Control (COSC) must function as an integrated operational capability in Large-Scale Combat Operations through nine synchronized functions that protect Soldier psychological readiness and unit cohesion.

By CPT Sarah Duff, LCSW, BCD

CPT Sarah Duff argues today's Behavioral Health Officers must evolve into clinicians, command advisors, and trainers to meet Large-Scale Combat Operations demands—addressing cognitive warfare, moral injury, and sustained psychological strain to conse...

By CPT Sarah Duff, LCSW, BCD

Genetic diseases affect many military families, yet relocations and care gaps hinder diagnosis and treatment. A proposed TRICARE-based databank, expanded therapy access, and federal partnerships could accelerate rare-disease research, improve readine...

By MAJ Justin T. Albrecht

How to budget for Army Class VIII medical materiel using GCSS-A data. This article breaks down the 'BOM to budget' method, with a real MES Combat Medic example, to help units calculate accurate annual CL VIII readiness costs and improve medical logis...

By LTC Perry C. “Chet” Sosebee, CW2 Stephen W. Iwasko III, and MAJ David S. Coon

Army 68C Practical Nursing Specialists face inconsistent clinical readiness without a standardized transition-to-practice program. A structured model mirroring the Clinical Nurse Transition Program could strengthen patient safety, retention, and prep...

By CPT Katlyn Stinnett

Explores how military medicine is becoming central to CBRN defense in future large-scale combat operations, highlighting USAMRDC innovations like DRAGON MEDIC diagnostics and ChemDx for far-forward biological and chemical threat detection, treatment,...

By MAJ Sarah S. Sanjakdar, Shane A. Kasten, Robert L. von Tersch, COL Kurt E. Schaecher, and LTC Brandon S. Pybus

Annual physical therapy-led musculoskeletal screening could close a major Army readiness gap. With MSK injuries driving most non-deployability, adding a MEDPROS-tracked annual screen may reduce profile days, identify high-risk Soldiers early, and pre...

By CPT Thomas Petersen

The 528th Field Hospital validated a 32-bed APS field hospital during Orient Shield 2025 in Japan, integrating trilateral forces, treating 150+ patients, and demonstrating rapid expeditionary Role 3 medical deployment readiness in INDOPACOM.

By MSG Joshua Blair, LTC Jennifer D. Wilson, and MAJ Justin Boyd

Proposes converting surplus AAVs into forward surgical suites and CASEVAC platforms to support amphibious LSCO operations in the Indo-Pacific, addressing gaps in expeditionary Army medical capability.

By CPT Nathan D. Brindley

Forward combat medical units face rising risk as evacuation delays and blood shortages increase in large-scale conflicts. A combined lyophilized plasma and platelet strategy offers a practical, cold-chain-free solution to extend life‑saving resuscita...

By SFC Jeffrey R. Wadford

Army Nurses must evolve into combat multipliers for Large-Scale Combat Operations, mastering prolonged field care, decentralized leadership, and moral resilience to sustain combat power against near-peer adversaries.

By MAJ Teresa Rios-Rodriguez

Evidence-based framework for military mass casualty management (MASCAL), covering triage methodology, casualty collection points, end-of-life care, communication, security, and training recommendations for medical and nonmedical responders.

By SGM Michael Remley, Col Steve Rush, SGM Jake Brown, LTC Andrew Schaffrinna, MSG Christopher Hutchison, Mrs. Shelia Savell, COL (retired) Stacy A. Shackelford, COL (retired) Russ Kotwal

Army medical units tested a hybrid Role 2 augmentation using an ICW to expand patient hold capacity, returning 19 of 23 Soldiers to duty and preserving combat power during large-scale combat operations.

By LTC Vern Campigotto, MAJ Richard Skinner, CPT Hannah Dalke, CPT Gabriel Lizama

U.S. Army POCUS capability gap analysis proposing standardized point-of-care ultrasound training for military medical personnel to enhance combat support, battlefield diagnostics, and Soldier survivability in multidomain operations.

By CPT Ryan A. Stevens MD, MBA, RDMS, MAJ Chelsea Ausman MD, RDMS, LTC Aicha Hull, MD, CPT Theodore McLean MD, LTC Melissa Myers, MD, MAJ Renato Rapada, DO and MAJ Kristine Jeffers, MD

Part 7 of 8: FA Branch Historian examines Civil War artillery personnel, exploring Redleg recruitment, USCHA Colored troops, the Fort Pillow Massacre, Gettysburg's artillery failures, and the enduring truth that people make the critical difference.

By CPT Sean Flournoy