After 64 years of medical logistics support to the healthcare mission in Korea and throughout the Pacific Rim, on October 16, 2008, the Department of the Army inactivated the 16th Medical Logistics Battalion and activated the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea (USAMMC-K) in an effort to realign the Institutional Army healthcare mission in Korea.

USAMMC-K provides direct medical materiel support to theater medical forces, ensures and assists tactical units are integrated into the end-to-end medical supply chain and assists the Combatant Commands in Health Logistics Support planning.

USAMMC-K provides continuous medical logistics support to sustain the readiness of United States Forces Korea throughout the full range of military operations.

The USAMMC-K team includes approximately 150 personnel, including U.S. and Republic of Korea military, local Korean civilians and Department of the Army civilians.

USAMMC-K NEWS

USAMMC-K wins Army Materiel Command safety award
January 30, 2023 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea has received U.S. Army Materiel Command’s battalion-level Exceptional Organization Safety Award. MORE

Workers at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea conduct a routine air-quality inspection. USAMMC-K was recently recognized by Army Materiel Command with its Exceptional Organization Safety Award at the battalion level.

Army medical materiel center in Korea recognized for strong safety culture
October 17, 2022 — In the U.S. Army, the mission comes first, but success hinges on the performance and wellbeing of a unit’s people, making safety a top priority simultaneously. MORE

A worker in the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea distribution warehouse prepares a pallet of medical materiel for delivery to a customer. USAMMC-K was recently recognized for its strong safety culture with the U.S. Army Safety Excellence Streamer, which requires zero incidents in the past 12 months and 100% participation in required risk management training

USAMMC-K resupplies USS Ronald Reagan in ongoing fight against COVID-19
October 3, 2022 — Vaccines and booster shots remain one of the best defenses against the ongoing global fight against COVID-19. MORE

Personnel assigned to the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea deliver boxes of ancillary kits for COVID-19 vaccine and booster administration to USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) during a Sept. 23 port visit to Busan, Republic of Korea. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Camanita Ieremia)

USAMMC-K provides training support during Ulchi Freedom Shield
September 16, 2022 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea provided important medical logistics training support during a recent largescale joint training exercise with Korean forces. MORE

Master Sgt. Rizmel Paguio, center, noncommissioned officer in charge of the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea distribution center, conducts sling load training with Army Reserve Soldiers from the 401st Medical Logistics Company during the Ulchi Freedom Shield exercise in August.

Artificial intelligence symposium gives MEDLOG experts platform to improve sustainment
July 11, 2022 — In today’s digital age, the U.S. Army is continuing to consider ways artificial intelligence, or AI, can augment and improve current operations for sustainment enterprises, including medical logistics. MORE

Pvts. Trezia Davenport and Alan Gonzalez, assigned to the 563rd Medical Logistics Company, assemble a tactical combat medical care resupply set in support of U.S. Forces Korea during an exercise at the Army’s prepositioned stocks site in South Korea. (Staff Sgt. Anthony Peterson)

‘Never Settle’ team in Korea changes command
June 27, 2022 — U.S. Army Medical Logistics Command leaders celebrated their worldwide medical logistics mission during a change of command ceremony on June 24 for direct reporting unit, U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea. MORE

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea outgoing commander Lt. Col. Marcus Perkins, right, passes the organizational colors to Army Medical Logistics Commander Col. Tony Nesbitt, center, as he relinquishes command on June 24, 2022. Lt. Col. Mark Sander, left, assumes command of the unit charged with providing continuous medical logistics support to sustain the readiness of U.S. Forces Korea throughout the full range of military operations.

USAMMC-K honors longtime employees with inaugural Order of the Phoenix award
April 28, 2022 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea has created its version of a lifetime achievement award, recognizing longtime standout employees who have helped the center continue to meet the medical materiel needs of customers throughout the Korean Peninsula. MORE

Lt. Col. Marcus D. Perkins, right, commander of the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea, and Sgt. Maj. Joel Lara-Baeza, left, present its first Order of the Phoenix awards to Chon, Un-hyang, and So, Chang-kyong during the USAMMC-K staff appreciation dinner April 9. The Order of the Phoenix awards were created to recognize a lifetime of service to the medical materiel center. Not pictured is the third recipient, Choe, Song-kyu. (U.S. Army photo by Amy Gahan/Released)

Army Medical Logistics participates in DOD AI research and development
April 20, 2022 — U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea leaders participated in a virtual forum March 4 focused on how artificial intelligence, or AI, could help improve the military’s operational medical supply chain. MORE

U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea leaders take part in a discussion during a recent command off-site meeting that led to participation in a virtual forum March 4 to provide input to the Department of Defense’s Office of the Chief Digital and AI Officer as part of an ongoing effort examining the implications of artificial intelligence on medical sustainment workflow. (Courtesy Lt. Col. Marcus D. Perkins)

Pilot robotics program increases efficiency at US Army medical materiel distribution center in Korea
January 14, 2022 — U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea teams are leveraging automation technology to increase efficiency and reduce staff burden in the center’s distribution warehouse. MORE

Soldiers at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea receive training on the operation of a new robotics carrier system put in use in the USAMMC-K warehouse. The system has increased efficiency and reduced manpower needs for processing orders for medical supply. (U.S. Army photo by Master Sgt. Rizmel Paguio)

USAMMC-K recognized as ‘All-Star’ for continued medication cost-saving efforts
December 3, 2021 — The U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Korea was highlighted twice recently as Defense Logistics Agency-Troop Support’s “Brand to Generic All-Star,” recognizing the center’s continued efforts to reduce medication costs through generic options. MORE

about us

MISSION

USAMMC-K provides comprehensive medical logistics support to United States Forces Korea in order to set and sustain readiness and multi-domain operations.

VISION
Serve as the leading medical logistics provider in the DOD; Always Ready. Never Settle!

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