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3 PIRMASENS, Germany As the theater lead agent for medical materiel, commonly known as the TLAMM, the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Center-Europe serves a variety of roles for land-based military forces overseas.
But what about those afloat?
USAMMC-E, a direct reporting unit of Army Medical Logistics Command, also covers the medical materiel needs for every U.S. Navy vessel deployed in its area of responsibility, covering U.S. European Command, U.S. African Command and U.S. Central Command.
To ensure coordination and communication, USAMMC-E has embraced virtual channels to continue providing regular training on the use of the Theater Enterprise Wide Logistics System, or TEWLS, which is used to order and track medical supplies.
3 FORT DETRICK, Md. As an 18-year-old high school graduate in 1990, Corey A. Lord looked to the U.S. Army as a way to launch his career.
But he didn’t figure it would be his entire career.
“I had no intentions of staying 30 years. None,” Lord said, as he explained that he only intended to stay in the military as a medical maintenance equipment repairer for six years. “But after six years … I fell in love with it. I didn’t want to do anything else, so I stayed in.”
After three decades, multiple deployments and numerous achievements, Lord, 48, has retired at the rank of sergeant major.
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U.S. Army Capt. Jenna Vercollone from Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 40th Brigade Engineer Battalion based in Fort Bliss, TX. receives a flu vaccine October 31, 2020 on Camp Arifjan, Kuwait. The vaccination was part of a readiness campaign to equip service members to combat the flu. (U.S. Army Reserve photo by Sgt. Khylee Woodford)DECEMBER 10, 2020 – Medical logistics experts at the U.S. Army Medical Materiel Agency have started receiving COVID-19 vaccine orders from throughout the Defense Department in anticipation of the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of a vaccine or multiple vaccines.