The objective of this evaluation was to assess how effectively DoD Components assign, place, and detail wartime medical specialty personnel to locations where they can maintain their wartime medical readiness skills and core competencies.
DoD policy is to maintain the critical wartime medical readiness skills of military health care personnel to maintain medical readiness. The DoD requires medical personnel’s skills to be aligned with the medical functions they perform when deployed. When not deployed, active-duty medical personnel are often assigned to work in military medical treatment facilities to gain opportunities that maintain their wartime medical readiness skills.