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USAMMC-K Recognized for Safety Program
January 21, 2020 — USAMMC-K was one of three Eighth Army units that were recently awarded Fiscal Year 2019 Exceptional Organization Safety Awards. The center received the battalion-level award.

Army to Host Medical Maintenance Exercise, Asks for Soldier Input
January 14, 2020 — Specific work groups will focus on challenges in product support analysis, medical maintenance functions, and medical maintenance management.

Army Medical Logistics and FDA Discuss 3D Printing
January 6, 2020 — AMLC hosted a workshop with U.S. Food and Drug Administration leaders Dec. 9, to foster discussions around current policies, concept regulations and potential stumbling blocks with advanced manufacturing (e.g., 3D-printing) of medical device repair parts...

Exercise Tests Army Medical Logistics Ability to Support Wartime Mission
January 2, 2020 — Soldiers from the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency participated in the 403rd Army Field Support Brigade medical exercise organized by the Eighth Army, which was completed Nov. 23, 2019

Why the Army Sees Value in Optical Fabrication
January 2, 2020 — Optical fabrication labs at U.S. Army Medical Materiel Centers in Korea and Europe produce over 100,000 sets of single-vision and multi-focal prescription lenses for a variety of frames in the past fiscal year. That total includes standard issue and frame-of-choice glasses, inserts for gas masks and eye protection, and flight goggles for pilots.

Army Major Named Honorary Member of Korean Military Medical Association
December 17, 2019 — Maj. Mark G. Sander, deputy commanding officer at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea, was recently recognized as an Honorary Member of the Korean Military Medical Association...

Army Medical Logistics Leader Delivers Joy During Holidays
December 9, 2019 — Business Support Office Director Todd Bishop grew a beard and then answered a unexpected calling...

AMLC Soldier Wins First Bodybuilding Event
December 4, 2019 — Early mornings, long hours in the gym and strict dieting paid off in a big way for Army Staff Sgt. Rick Lash, 36, who made a clean sweep at a National Physique Committee body building show Nov. 9. Lash, an operations non-commissioned officer who tracks, develops and implements different training programs for the Army Medical Logistics Command at Fort Detrick in Frederick, Md.,...

Exercise Helps Army Medical Logistics Team 'See Ourselves,' Identify Potential Shortfalls
November 18, 2019 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency facilitated a U.S. Army Forces Command Emergency Deployment Readiness Exercise (EDRE) October 2019 at Sierra Army Depot in Herlong, Calif. ...

Army Emphasizes Speed, Reliability of Medical Logistics
November 12, 2019 — Gen. Gus Perna, commanding general of the Army Materiel Command, provided guidance to Army Medical Logistics Command leaders during a quarterly update briefing Nov. 6, 2019, held at Army Communications-Electronics Command (CECOM) at Aberdeen Proving Ground in northeast Maryland...