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U.S. Airmen with the 59th Medical Wing transport a simulated casualty to an ambulance during a National Disaster Medical System exercise in Port San Antonio, Texas, May 27, 2010. The military and civilian multiagency exercise tested participants ability to receive patients from a simulated tornado in another state. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Airman Nicole Mickle/Released) CMM develops medical policies and procedures that facilitate MHS support to civilian authorities during naturally occurring or man-made disasters. We coordinate (DoD) support to the National Disaster Medical System and includes pandemic influenza/infectious disease preparedness.

National Disaster Medical System

The National Disaster Medical System (NDMS) combines Federal and non-Federal medical resources into a unified response to meet natural andman-made disaster needs, as well as support patient treatment requirements from military contingencies.

The NDMS is an interagency partnership between the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the Department of Homeland Security,DoD and the Department of Veteran’s Affairs. It’s based on the 2005 Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) between these agencies.

Components of the NDMS:

Medical Response—Includes personnel, teams and individuals, supplies, and equipment. The NDMS Response Teams can include:
Patient Movement
Definitive Medical Care

National Response Framework

The National Response Framework (NRF) utilizes the NDMS, under Emergency Support Function #8 (ESF #8), Health and Medical Services, to support Federal agencies in the management and coordination of the Federal medical response to major emergencies and federally declared disasters such as natural disasters, major transportation accidents, technological disasters, and acts of terrorism including weapons of mass destruction events.

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Brooke Army Medical Center optometry resident helps provide free vision care in Texas valley

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9/9/2016

Army Maj. Brad Cunningham provides a slit lamp examination during a free optometry clinic at Juarez-Lincoln High School in Mission, Texas, during a weeklong humanitarian mission to provide vision services to people living in the Rio Grande Valley. (Courtesy photo)

RAM is an organization that provides medical care through mobile clinics in underserved, isolated, or impoverished communities

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Pacific Partnership 2016 departs Indonesia, completing final mission stop

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9/2/2016

An MH-60S Seahawk helicopter hoists Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Ben McCracken, left, and Petty Officer 3rd Class Sean Magee from the water during a Pacific Partnership 2016 search and rescue drill in Padang, Indonesia. (U.S. Navy photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Trevor Kohlrus)

Pacific Partnership 2016's departure from Indonesia marks the completion of the 2016 mission and six mission stops

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Texas Guardsmen contribute to medical relief effort

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7/22/2016

U.S. Air Force Capt. Brett Ringger, optometrist , 136th Medical Group, Texas Air National Guard, examines a patient during the Greater Chenango Cares Innovative Readiness Training in Cortland, New York. The IRT provided medical care to patients at no cost, as well as eye examinations and glasses on site. (U.S. Air Force photo by Senior Master Sgt. Elizabeth Gilbert)

The joint training exercise allows for service members to practice their skills in preparation for wartime operations while also providing a needed service to underserved communities

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Medical logistics team boosts surgical versatility of New Horizons 2016

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7/14/2016

A general surgery team performs laparoscopic gallbladder removal surgery during New Horizons 2016 in the Dominican Republic.

Two Airmen helped bring laparoscopic surgery to New Horizons for the first time

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USNS Mercy arrives in 7th Fleet for Pacific Partnership

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5/25/2016

Sailors assigned to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam handle line as the hospital ship USNS Mercy moors at JBPHH. Mercy is deployed in support of Pacific Partnership 2016.

Pacific Partnership began in response to the December 2004 tsunami that devastated parts of Southeast Asia

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U.S. military delivers 30 tons of supplies for Japan earthquake relief

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4/22/2016

U.S. Marines and Japanese soldiers load boxes of humanitarian aid into an MV-22 Osprey aircraft at Japanese Camp Takayubaru, Japan, April 18, 2016, to support earthquake relief efforts near Kumamoto.

The U.S. military has delivered more than 30 tons of supplies to help the people of Japan following two powerful, deadly earthquakes

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Digging deep: Marines, Sailors conduct avalanche training

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2/8/2016

Marines, rush toward a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter with a simulated avalanche victim at the Mountain Warfare Training Center in Bridgeport, California.

Marines and Sailors from across II Marine Expeditionary Force and 2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade conducted avalanche training

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Marines, Sailors train for humanitarian assistance, disaster relief missions

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12/31/2015

Marine Cpl. Jordan Canchola, an artillery gunner with Golf Battery, Battalion Landing Team 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, takes a knee to shield himself from the rotor wash of a CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter. The battery was training to distribute food and water as part of a humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operation. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Carl King)

Marines and Sailors practice being deployed to a foreign country, tasked with distributing food, water and other emergency supplies to victims of a disaster

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San Antonio Military Medical Center docs focus on healing hands, arms

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10/22/2015

Army Lt. Col. Mickey Cho (right) and Honduran residents work on a patient’s hand. The San Antonio Military Medical team conducted a medical readiness exercise in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, focusing on orthopedic procedures to hand and arm injuries. (U.S. Army photo)

A team of 19 medical professionals and surgeons spearheaded three-fold mission; focus on repair of specific hand and arm orthopedic conditions; increase their proficiency, and enhance U.S. - Honduran relations

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USNS Comfort medical team performs first mobile interventional radiology procedure

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9/23/2015

Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Connor Potts (left), assigned to Naval Medical Center Portsmouth, Va., and Navy Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Michael Siem (right), assigned to the Admiral Joel T. Boone Branch Health Clinic Virginia Beach, Va., take an X-ray of a patient at a medical site established at Killick Coast Guard Station in support of Continuing Promise 2015. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Kameren Guy Hodnett)

A medical team assigned to the USNS Comfort performed their first mobile interventional radiology (IR) procedure

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Civilians, Army, Air Force team up to serve veterans

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9/22/2015

Master Sgt. Kim Groat, 168th Medical Group aerospace medical technician, performs a blood pressure test for a veteran during the Veteran Stand Down at Pioneer Park Civic Center in Fairbanks, Alaska. (Air Force photo by Senior Airman Francine St. Laurent)

As part of a joint-force effort medics provided care for veterans at the 17th annual Veterans Stand Down in Fairbanks

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Medical collaboration provides world-class care

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9/14/2015

Royal Australian Air Force Cpl. Mia Woolley, medical technician, conducts a medical screening on Trica, a 1-year-old from Lila, Bohol province, Philippines, during the Health Services Outreach provided as part of the Pacific Angel Philippines mission. Efforts help multilateral militaries in the Pacific improve and build relationships across a wide spectrum of civic operations, which bolsters each nation’s capacity to respond and support future humanitarian assistance and disaster relief operations. (U.S. Air Force photo by Tech. Sgt. Aaron Oelrich)

Providing world-class care to patients such as Carazon is a valuable byproduct of the real intent of the exercise, which is to build partnerships between the U.S. and its Indo-Asia-Pacific partners.

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USNS Comfort anchors in Haiti, nears 2015 Mission’s end

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9/14/2015

Since April, the USNS Comfort has taken a team of U.S. military medical and construction personnel, private-aid organizations and partner-nation officials to 11 Latin American and Caribbean nations, treating more than 100,000 patients and performing community-assistance projects. (U.S. Navy photo)

U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort anchors off the Haitian coast, marking its final Continuing Promise 2015 mission stop

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USNS Mercy, Millinocket arrive in Vietnam for Pacific Partnership

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8/21/2015

Crewmembers of the hospital ship USNS Mercy train to participate in a mass casualty drill during Pacific Partnership 2015 recently. The current stop in Vietnam will culminate in a disaster medicine drill where both U.S. and Vietnamese medical personnel will participate both on and off USNS Mercy. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class William McCann)

The hospital ship USNS Mercy and joint high speed vessel USNS Millinocket arrived in Da Nang, Vietnam, recently for their last mission stops of Pacific Partnership 2015.

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USNS Comfort arrives for first mission in Dominica

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8/6/2015

U.S. Navy Cmdr. William Cavill examines a child before her surgery aboard the hospital ship USNS Comfort in Roseau, Dominica. The medical care is part of Continuing Promise, a civil-military effort that includes humanitarian-civil assistance, medical, dental and veterinary support. Cavill is an anesthesiologist assigned to Naval Hospital Pensacola, Florida. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Lance Hartung)

The CP-15 team, NGO volunteers, Dominican medical professionals and Ministry of Health volunteers provided no-cost medical and dental services to more than 1,000 patients during the first day of operations at two locations.

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