I see there are new Unit Assemblage Listings for my Medical Equipment Sets (MESs). How can my unit get the lastest and most modern MESs available?
1. Ensure you accurately report shortages in your Unit Status Report. Your higher headquarters up to FORSCOM and the Department of the Army need to know your equipment readiness. Your commander can subjectively downgrade your unit’s readiness rating if he/she identifies a shortfall in clinical capability. Also, the Army mandates the use of the Army Equipment Common Operating Picture (ECOP), which is on the HQs Department of the Army SIPR site, to post MTOE shortages as well as Operational Needs Statements (ONSs). 2. If you are deploying and your sets have a clinical shortfall in LIN level medical equipment items (OPA), identify and communicate that shortfall through your chain of command to the USAMMA EOC. When USAMMA is notified and can verify the shortage or clinical weakness, USAMMA will fill the shortage or upgrade the clinical capability pending available stock and funding or advise on the best strategy to fill this need. It is the unit’s responsibility to maintain and sustain the
