A facility established for the purpose of furnishing medical and/or dental care to eligible individuals.

The DOD’s managed health care program for active duty Service members, Service families, retirees and their families, survivors, and other eligible beneficiaries. TRICARE is a blend of the military’s direct care system of hospitals and clinics and civilian providers.

Is used to document a mutual understanding between any two or more parties that does not contain an expectation of payment, and under which the parties do not rely on each other to execute or deliver on any responsibilities. Support agreements for temporarily assigning federal civil service personnel between federal entities in accordance with Section 334...

A civilian medical provider, or medical provider group under contract with the TRICARE Program.

The ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.

Includes hospital care, medical services, and rehabilitative services, pursuant to Paragraphs (5), (6), and (8) of Section 1701 of Title 38, U.S.C.; counseling and mental health services pursuant to Sections 1782 and 1783 of Title 38, U.S.C.; and any other health care service, support or administrative resource.

A person who is a primary beneficiary of the Department of Veterans Affairs or of the Department of Defense.

All available manpower, facilities, equipment, supplies, and funding to produce health care services, and any other health care support or administrative resource.

A medical unit responsible for strategic storage of frozen blood products in a combatant command with a geographic area of responsibility. Frozen blood products are provided to each combatant command component based on joint blood program instructions.

The process of obtaining warm fresh whole blood (non-FDA compliant) from screened donors for emergency transfusion.

Any of the four main groups into which human blood is divided (A, B, AB, or O) and includes Rhesus factor, a positive or negative indicator of the presence or absence of an inherited protein on the surface of red blood cells.

A Military Department-designated blood program officer responsible for coordination and management of a respective Military Service’s blood program.

Any military operation supporting DOD objectives, both inside and outside the CONUS, resulting in Service members and DOD Expeditionary Civilian personnel placed on contingency, deployment, or contingency deployment orders, including but not limited to noncombatant evacuation; homeland defense; defense support of civil authorities; foreign humanitarian as...

A nation that the United States works with in a specific situation or operation.  In security cooperation, a nation with which the Department of Defense conducts security cooperation activities.

U.S. Army Combat Medics, U.S. Navy Hospital and Independent Duty Corpsmen, and U.S. Air Force Aerospace Medicine and Independent Duty Medical Technicians.