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MEDOPSBOOKFEB01 Ppt Presentation, gives the higher echelon Naval Med and Dental support to a Marine MEF (3 active):

Slide39: USMC Medical Battalion Personnel: 214 Officers/757 Enlisted Mobility: 100% BOA: One per Force Service Support Group Assigned To: Force Service Support Group MISSION: Provide Echelon II medical support to a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF). COMMAND AND CONTROL: Commanding officer reports to the Commanding General of the Force Service Support Group. ORGANIZATION: 1 x Headquarters and Service Company 3 x Surgical Companies CHARACTERISTICS: Operating Rooms: 9 Laboratories 6 X-ray: 6 Pharmacy: 6 Flow-through Cots: 260 Shock Trauma Platoons: 8 Erect Time: 6 hrs. Maximum Patient Holding Time: 72 hrs. 39

Slide40: USMC Dental Battalion Personnel: 76 Officers/160 Enlisted Mobility: 100% BOA: One unit per maneuver battalion Assigned To: Force Service Support Group MISSION: Provides Echelon II dental support to a Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF). COMMAND & CONTROL: Dental battalion Commanding Officer reports to the Commanding General of the Force Service Support Group and is assigned the additional duty as the MEF Dental Officer. ORGANIZATION: Headquarters and Service Company Three x Dental Companies COMPANY ORGANIZATION: Headquarters Section 2 x Dental Officers 4 x Dental Technicians Clinical Section 17 x General Dentists 1 x Comprehensive Dentist 1 x Periodontist 1 x Endodontist 1 x Oral Surgeon 1 x Prosthodontist 44 x Dental Technicians 40

but, then you would have to factor in all of the lower echelon EM hospital corpsmen, etc. I doubt whether this is close to the complete answer - nor, for that matter, the infantry platoon size.

If you want to go to more work than I do, you can parse through the TO&E of a MAGTF (MEF - e.g., Marine Division), which would provide the answers.

Be interesting to see the O-EM ratios in the GCE, ACE and CSSE, and in their respective components. Do the Marines have relatively fewer officers in the GCE ? That was the point made to me by the Marine recruiter.

Regards to all,

Mike