worldwide and to manage the health and care of our soldier and our our military family" (Army, p. 2). The Army Medical goals are to (1) keep military forces deployed in a state of "optimal health, equipped to protect themselves from disease and injury" (2) to ensure the medical units are trained, equipped and are capable of supporting medical requirements of deployed forces under any contingency, and to provide "quality, accessible, cost-effective health services" (Army, p. 2).
             The Navy Medicine Support Command provides a single point of accountability for all its support services within the U.S. Navy. It has financial control, as well as exercising command over commands that carry out necessary actions so that Navy medical personnel and programs are under its control. The various parts of the NMSC are Manpower, Logistics, Medical Information, Environment and Research. These echelon 4 commands and their subordinates under the NMSC AOR train, deploy, deliver information and medicine, as well as provide safe environments for all Navy officers and personnel.
             The Air Force Surgeon General concentrates on surgery and trauma treatment in its facilities all over the world. While the Task Force Med staff, who call themselves the "Smooth Operators," teams up to care for wounded American and Afghan patients at Bagram Air Base, another team of medical practitioners at Fairchild Air Force Base in Washington, have an urgent care clinic for less acute problems, where the cost of care is one-sixth that of an emergency room visit. The cost of treating a diaper rash, for instance, can be $600 or more at an emergency room, but cost only $80 to $100 at an urgent care clinic. By
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