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This category contains medical doctors who have served as United States Army Medical Corps officers, including those serving in the U.S. Army Medical Department prior to 1908 when Congress made the Corps an official staff officer body.
The 485th Medical Detachment was constituted on 29 July 1921 in the Organized Reserves as Company A, 343rd Medical Regiment. On 1 October 1933, the unit was transferred to the Regular Army. The unit was activated on 20 May 1943 at Fort Dix, New Jersey and assigned to the XIII Corps.
The Medical Corps (MC) of the U.S. Army is a staff corps (non-combat specialty branch) of the U.S. Army Medical Department (AMEDD) consisting of commissioned medical officers – physicians with either an M.D. or a D.O. degree, at least one year of post-graduate clinical training, and a state medical license.
A dental corps is a specialist military unit, generally including dentists and dedicated to maintaining the dental health of service personnel. Dental corps are therefore a kind of medical corps, and are typically either within the medical corps of their military organization, or closely associated with it.
The department also provides trained medical specialists to the Army's combat medical units, which are assigned directly to combatant commanders. Many Army Reserve and Army National Guard units deploy in support of the Army Medical Department. The Army depends heavily on its Reserve component for medical support—about 63 percent of the Army's ...
The hospital corps was organized in order to enlist and retain competent medical personnel below officer rank. Hospital Stewards belonged to the Army Medical Department, performing tasks within the fields of pharmacy , minor surgery , simple dentistry and administration, as well as managing the army's post hospitals.
A medical service corps is a kind of military corps found in branches of the United States Armed Forces that is formally designated to engage in supporting and administrating the provision of medical assistance to soldiers and their families, and to civilians in emergency situations.
Commander of The Army Medical Center: Major General: Robert H. Mills: September 17, 1943: Retired 1946: Chief, Army Dental Corps; Namesake of Mills Dental Clinic, Fort Dix, New Jersey: Major General: David N. W. Grant: September 19, 1943: Retired 1946: The Air Surgeon; Namesake of David Grant USAF Medical Center, Travis Air Force Base ...