Abbreviations
| AC | Active Component |
| AF | Air Force |
| AIDS | Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome |
| AIREVAC | Air Evacuation |
| AMEDD | Army Medical Department |
| ANCOC | Advanced Non-Commissioned Officer Course |
| AOCs | Areas of Concentration |
| ATH | Air Transportable Hospital |
| BNCOC | Basic Non-Commissioned Officer Course |
| CAS3 | Combined Arms and Services Staff School |
| C4I | Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence |
| CENTCOM | Central Command |
| CHAMPUS | Civilian Medical Program of the Uniformed Services |
| CINC | Commander in Chief |
| CJTF-S | Combined Joint Task Force Somalia |
| CMOC | Civil/Military Operations Center |
| CMS | Central Material Service |
| CONUS | Continental United States |
| CSA | Chief of Staff of the Army |
| CSH | Combat Support Hospital |
| DEPMEDS | Deployable Medical System |
| DNBI | Disease and Nonbattle Injury |
| DNR | Do-Not-Resuscitate |
| DoD | U.S. Department of Defense |
| ER | Emergency Room |
| EUCOM | European Command |
| EVAC | Evacuation Hospital |
| FDA | Federal Drug Administration |
| FH | Field Hospital |
| FM | Field Manual |
| FORSCOM | Forces Command |
| FST | Forward Surgical Teams |
| FWD | Forward |
| FYROM | Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia |
| GAO | U.S. Government Accounting Office |
| GI | Gastrointestinal |
| GME | Graduate Medical Education |
| HACC | Humanitarian Assistance Coordination Center |
| HIV | Human Immune Deficiency Virus |
| HROs | Humanitarian Relief Organizations |
| ICU | Intensive Care Unit |
| IMA | Individual Mobilization Augmentee |
| IOM | International Organization of Migration |
| JCS | Joint Chiefs of Staff |
| JRTC | Joint Readiness Training Center |
| JTF | Joint Task Force |
| JTF-PP | Joint Task Force Provide Promise |
| JTF-S | Joint Task Force-Somalia |
| JTFSC-S | Joint Task Force Support Command-Somalia |
| LOS | Length of Stay |
| MARFOR | Marine Forces |
| MASF | Mobile Aeromedical Staging Facility |
| MASH | Mobile Army Surgical Hospital |
| MEDCEN | Medical Center |
| MEDCOM | Medical Command |
| MEDDAC | Medical Activity |
| MEDEVAC | Medical Evacuation |
| MEDLOG | Medical Logistics |
| MFO Sinai | Multinational Force, Sinai |
| MNF | Multinational Force |
| MOS | Military Occupational Specialty |
| MP | Military Police |
| MSC | Medical Service Corps |
| MTF | Medical Task Force |
| MTFs | Military Treatment Facilities |
| NATO | North Atlantic Treaty Organization |
| NCOs | Noncommissioned Officers |
| NDMS | National Disaster Medical System |
| NGO | Nongovernmental Organization |
| NTC | National Training Center |
| OAC | Officers Advanced Course |
| OBC | Officers Basic Course |
| OB/GYN | Obstetrics and Gynecology |
| OCH | Operation Continue Hope |
| OCONUS | Outside CONUS |
| ODS | Operation Desert Storm |
| OFDA | Office of Federal Disaster Assistance, U.S. Department of State |
| OOTW | Operations Other Than War |
| OPP | Operation Provide Promise |
| OPR | Operation Provide Relief |
| OPTEMPO | Operating Tempo |
| ORH | Operation Restore Hope |
| OASD | Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense |
| OT/PT | Occupational Therapy/Physical Therapy |
| OTSG | Office of The Army Surgeon General |
| PA | Physician Assistant |
| PAHO | Pan American Health Organization |
| PASBA | Patient Administration Systems and Biostatistics Activities |
| PERSTEMPO | Personnel Tempo |
| PROFIS | Professional Filler System |
| PT | Physical Therapy |
| RAF | Royal Air Force |
| RC | Reserve Component |
| RCCS | Remote Clinical Consultation System |
| ROEs | Rules of Engagement |
| RTD | Return to Duty |
| SOF | Special Forces |
| TB | Tuberculosis |
| TDA | Table of Distribution and Allowance |
| TF | Task Force |
| TOE | Table of Organization and Equipment |
| UAVs | Unmanned aerial vehicles |
| UN | United Nations |
| UNHCR | United Nations High Commission for Refugees |
| UNITAF | United Nations Task Force |
| UNMIH | United Nations Mission in Haiti |
| UNOSOM I/II | United Nations Operation Somalia I/II |
| UNPROFOR | United Nations Protection Force |
| URIs | Upper respiratory infections |
| USAID | U.S. Agency for International Development |
| USAMEDCOM | U.S. Army Medical Command |
| USAREUR | U.S. Army Europe |
| WAMC | Womack Army Medical Center |
| WHO | World Health Organization |
| WRAMC | Walter Reed Army Medical Center |
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