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Appendix D D-8 FM 3-81 09 November 2021 Table D-7. Sustainment capabilities Organization Capabilities Expeditionary Sustainment Command • Provide sustainment support which includes logistics support, conduct human resources support, conduct financial and comptroller support, and provide health service support. • Plan, integrate, synchronize and assess Army common and special operations forces sustainment requirements. • Rapidly deploy to conduct theater opening, distribution management and reception, staging and onward movement of forces. Division sustainment brigade • Provide responsibility for the integration, synchronization, and execution of sustainment operations for a division. • Command and control of up to seven battalions. • Coordinate and synchronize tactical-level sustainment operations to meet current and future operations. • Provide general support to units assigned or attached to the division and operating in the division areas of operations. ARMY HEALTH SYSTEM D-11. The Army Health System is a component of the Military Health System that is responsible for operational management of the HSS and FHP missions for training, pre-deployment, deployment, and postdeployment operations. Army Health System includes all mission support services performed, provided, or arranged by the Army Medicine to support health service support and force health protection mission requirements for the Army and as directed, for joint, intergovernmental agencies, coalition, and multinational forces (FM 4-02). The AHS is a complex system of systems, divided into ten medical functions and aligned with medical disciplines. These systems are interrelated and interdependent and must be continuously and meticulously synchronized. The AHS uses medical command and control organizations to manage the subordinate units providing AHS and FHP (see table D-8). Table D-8. Medical capabilities Organization Capabilities MEDCOM (DS) • Command and control of theater medical units providing AHS support within the AO. • Management, coordination, and patient tracking procedures with the theater patient movement center staff section. • Synchronization of intratheater evacuation plans with the intertheater evacuation plan to ensure a seamless transition between tactical and strategic evacuation systems. • Coordination and orchestration of medical logistic operations to include Class VIII supply, distribution, medical maintenance and repair support, optical fabrication, and blood management. • Veterinary technical supervision for animal medical care, food protection, and veterinary public health support. • Operations public health support for medical and (OEH surveillance, potable water inspection, pest management, food facility inspection, and control of medical and nonmedical waste. • Assistance with coordination and integration of strategic capabilities from the sustaining base to units in the AO. • Staff planning, supervision of operations, and administration of assigned and attached medical units.