The Big Picture: Army Medical Research (1967)

DVD: www.amazon.com Vietnam War films: thefilmarchived.blogspot.com The US Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is the Army’s medical materiel developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition and medical logistics management. The USAMRMC’s expertise in these critical areas helps establish and maintain the capabilities the Army needs to fight and win on the battlefield. USAMRMC Headquarters at Fort Detrick, Maryland, supports 11 subordinate commands located throughout the world. Six USAMRMC medical research laboratories and institutes perform the core science and technology (S&T) research to develop medical solutions. These laboratories specialize in various areas of biomedical research, including infectious diseases, combat casualty care, operational medicine, clinical and rehabilitative medicine, chemical and biological defense, combat dentistry, and laser effects, and are staffed with highly qualified scientists and support personnel. A large extramural research program and numerous cooperative research and development (R&D) agreements provide additional S&T capabilities by the leading R&D organizations in the civilian sector. Five USAMRMC subordinate commands perform medical materiel advanced development, strategic and operational medical logistics, and contracting, to complete the lifecycle management of medical materiel. The Command is staffed with highly qualified scientists, program managers, logisticians, contracting experts …