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Medical Maintenance Training Prepares Soldiers for Operational Environment
March 27, 2018 — Soldiers from the 215th Brigade Support Battalion at Fort Hood, Texas, and the 115th Combat Support Hospital at Fort Polk, Louisiana, completed hands-on medical equipment training at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Medical Maintenance Operations Division - Tracy located at Defense Distribution Depot San Joaquin, California, March 2. MORE

Ever Wonder How Army Decides What Medical Equipment to Field?
March 15, 2018 — Army clinicians and medics often ask about what the process is for deciding what equipment or supplies end up in a combat medic's kit or field operating room set. To help explain the process, the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Chief of Assemblage Management Division Marie Cochran provided plain-language answers to some of our most commonly asked questions. MORE

Army upgrades frontline surgical teams
February 23, 2018 — The 745th Forward Surgical Team, a detachment of the 31st Combat Support Hospital, became the Army's first unit to upgrade into a Forward Resuscitation and Surgical Team at Fort Bliss, Texas, Feb. 6. MORE

USAMMA's Medical Maintenance Directorate Updates Quality Certification
January 24, 2018 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Medical Maintenance Management Directorate earned International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001:2015 certification Dec. 19. MORE

New Class Graduates from USAMMA Medical Logistics Management Internship as Program Readies for Revam
December 21, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency, a subordinate agency of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command, honored its 101st graduating class of the Medical Logistics Management Internship Program (MLMIP) during a ceremony at Fort Detrick, Maryland, Dec. 15. MORE

Maintenance Key to Medical Device Precision, Accuracy
December 7, 2017 — A baby in an incubator -- that was the image that Army engineering technician Tyler Dowell recalled as he described the importance of the mission at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency's Medical Maintenance Operations Division-Tracy. MORE

Army Medical Maintenance Community Bids Farewell to Long-time Legend
December 1, 2017 — After more than 50 years on the job, biomedical equipment specialist Gordon Linford says it is time to pack up his tools. MORE

Medical Materiel Recapitalization Saves Lives, Money
November 20, 2017 — When a computerized tomography system arrives at Medical Maintenance Operations Division-Tracy, it often looks like it has been to war -- because it has. MORE

Army Medicine Logistics Leverage Contingency Programs to Support Hurricane Relief
November 17, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency and the 6th Medical Logistics Management Center, in support of U.S. Army North, deployed assets to support the Department of Defense's ongoing disaster relief efforts in Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. MORE

Army Funding Development of Battlefield Devices to Assess Moderate, Severe Brain Injury
October 27, 2017 — The U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command awarded two contracts totaling more than $12 million for the advanced development of two medical devices to aid in battlefield triage and treatment of wounded Service Members suspected of moderate to severe traumatic brain injury. MORE