Dated March 2020

Army Techniques Publication 4-02.55 provides guidance to the medical commander, medical planner, and command surgeon at all levels of command in planning Army Health System support.

The principal audience for this publication is all medical commanders, command surgeons, and their staffs, and nonmedical commanders involved in medical planning.

Army Techniques Publication 4-02.55 applies to the Active Army, Army National Guard or Army National Guard of the United States, and the United States Army Reserve unless otherwise stated.

Army Techniques Publication 4-02.55 consists of four chapters as follows:

Chapter 1 provides an overview of the characteristics of the Army Health System, its principles, functions, the role of medical care, and medical planning factors. It also discusses the fundamental aspects used by medical planners to determine the best possible Army Health System to support Army operations.

Chapter 2 describes the ten medical functions and how they are aligned with specific medical disciplines of health service support or force health protection tasks. It also provides the primary purposes of the functions to give the medical planner a planning reference point to work from.

Chapter 3 provides guidance for some of the unique complexity inherent to Army Health System planning. It also provides a brief review of and references the Army planning process and how it applies to Army Health System planning.

Chapter 4 discusses some of the many different and unique factors, terms, and computations the medical planner can use to develop the Army Health System support estimate.

This book is a "mini" (half the size of a regular piece of paper) size - A popular size to carry anywhere (briefcase, large pocket, purse) but the print is large enough for easy reading. Coil binding is used to allow for easy page flipping with no binding.

This website also has this book in "BIG" size (the size of a regular sheet of paper)

The Color covers are laminated for weather protection with black and white inside printing.