Medical Evacuation Concepts and Capabilities Division (MECCD) serves as the capability Developer for Army Medical Evacuation and develops medical evacuation operational concepts and capability requirements. MECCD also acts as the initial ‘user representative’ in the acquisition process for medical evacuation platforms and mission equipment.
Key Tasks
- Develop and refine medical evacuation concepts and doctrine.
- Determine and document MEDEVAC capability requirements.
- Develop MEDEVAC upgrade and modernization strategies.
- Develop and refine MEDEVAC unit designs and force structure.
- Develop and refine MEDEVAC manpower structure.
- Serve as the initial MEDEVAC 'user representative' in the acquisition process.
- Manage the shared and specified requirements of the VCSA Aeromedical Evacuation Charter.
- Chair the Medical Evacuation Integrated Capability Development Team (ICDT).
- Provide subject matter expertise for Army MEDEVAC.
Endstate
Army AE maintains America's trust as an adaptable, capable, expeditionary, and ready force multiplier that enables combatant commanders the ability to respond, prevent, shape, and win while achieving a 95% patient evacuation survivability rate.
Leadership
Chief, Medical Evacuation Concepts and Capabilities Division
Col. Audrey Boenker, a Huntsville, Alabama native, commissioned through Auburn University in 2004. She has held key leadership and acquisition roles across the MEDEVAC and Army Aviation enterprise, including command of C/2916 “Desert Dustoff,” Deputy Commander of the U.S. Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory, Deputy Chief of the Medical Evacuation Concepts and Capabilities Division (MECCD), and Battalion Commander of the 121st Field Hospital in Camp Humphreys, Korea... READ MORE