FM 4-0, Sustainment - GlobalSecurity.org

Functions of SustainmentSUMMARY• Provide flexible, responsive, and deployable medical support designed and structured to sustaina force projection Army and its varied missions. This capability includes hospitalizationresources to provide essential care to all patients who cannot recover within the theaterevacuation policy and are stabilized and evacuated out of theater and definitive care to thoseSoldiers capable of returning to duty (see FM 4-02.10).• Provide a medical logistics system (to include blood management) that is anticipatory andtailored to continuously support missions throughout full spectrum operations (see FM 4-02.1).• Provide dental services to maximize the RTD of dental patients by providing operational dentalcare and maintaining the dental fitness of theater forces.• Provide medical laboratory functions in medical operations.• Provide blood management services.• Provide preventive dentistry activities.• Provide combat and operational stress control and behavioral health (BH) preventive services.5-129. The functional elements of sustainment include supply, field services, transportation, maintenance,general engineering, human resources, FM, legal, religious support, and Army health services support. Theseelements and their many sub-functions comprise the sustainment WFF. When optimized, sustainmentoperations ensure strategic and operational reach and endurance for Army forces in any operationalenvironment.30 April 2009 FM 4-0 5-21