d. HD, Dental Service Augmentation, Fixed Prosthodontics augments existing
dental treatment facilities to provide increased outpatient dental fixed prosthodontics
service.
e. Team HE, Central Dental Laboratory provides dental prosthetic support
to dental units or facilities that collectively service 200,000. They also operate as a
fixed facility in COMMZ.
5-35. TABLE OF ORGANIZATION AND EQUIPMENT 8-60, VETERINARY
HEADQUARTERS AND SERVICE TEAMS
a. Team AF, Veterinary Service Headquarters provides command and control
for four to seven veterinary service, dispensary, and/or hospital detachments in any
combination.
b. Team JA, Veterinary Service Detachment (Small) provides food
wholesomeness, food hygiene, safety, and related quality assurance inspections in
support of a population of up to 20,000 personnel; conducts antemortem and post-
mortem examinations of food animals; performs procurement and surveillance food
inspections; and inspects subsistence and food producing animals exposed to NBC
agents. It also performs veterinary preventive medicine functions, to include civic action
programs. It conducts control programs for those diseases transmitted from animals to
humans, provides minimal emergency care for large animals, performs expedient,
limited animal medical services and treatment for approximately 25 military working
dogs on an emergency/short term basis, at one location and co-locates at one location
up to 25 military working dogs for evacuation to teams XA or XB. Team JA may be
used to augment the structure of Team JB (para c, below), in which case it can perform
the above services in support of a population of 25.000 and is capable of operating as a
mobile service teams.
c. Team JB, Veterinary Service Detachment (Large) has the same capabilities
as Team JA, except that it can support a population of up to 100,000 personnel. This
capability may be increased to 150,000 by augmentation of a Team JA for each 25,000
personnel in excess of 100,000 to be supported. Team JB consists of four mobile
service teams: two with a veterinary service officer, a food inspector NCO, and three
food inspection specialists; the other two with a veterinary service officer, one food
inspector NCO, three food inspection specialist, and one animal care specialist. The
team operates in 6-12 locations over a 140-kilometer radius. In addition to being
augmented by up to two teams JA, this unit may also be used to command and control
up to two other separate veterinary detachments (JA, XA, or XB), only one of which may
be a Team XA or XB.
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