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     21st Chief, Medical Service Corps

BG Roger S. Giraud

Mission

The Medical Service Corps recruits educated and motivated individuals; develops professional, agile leaders who act on initiative; and retains premier talent to effectively integrate, coordinate, and synchronize the Army Health System; support transformation; and conserve the fighting strength now and into the future so others may live.

 

About the Medical Service Corps

The MSC consists of four multi-functional areas (MFAs) comprised of twenty-three areas of concentration (AOC), and four Additional Skill Identifiers (ASI). MSC Officers serve within the areas of Administrative Health Services, Medical Allied Sciences, Preventive Medicine Sciences, Behavioral Health Sciences, Pharmacy, Optometry, Podiatry, Aeromedical Evacuation, or Health Services Maintenance Technicians (e.g. Warrant Officers).

The entry level Administrative Health Services officer typically serves as a medical platoon leader in an operational unit (AOC 70B). The course of the officer’s career will typically include various operational assignments, institutional training, and advanced civilian education to prepare the 70B MSC Officer for selection into a specialized Administrative Health Services AOC at the field grade ranks (e.g. Healthcare Administration, Comptroller, Information Management, Operations, Logistics, Human Resources, Patient Administration). In this capacity, MSC Officers may perform staff officer functions on Battle Staffs from Battalion to Regional combatant command levels.

Aeromedical Evacuation Officers (AOC 67J) are aviators and must develop technical proficiency in their aviator skills. They must master the aviation platform as they gain experience in both Aviation and AMEDD operations. These officers generally remain in operational positions for up to eight years to develop their competency in aviation technical and tactical skills as well as medical evacuation operations. At the field grade level, many 67J officers will transition to a specialized Administrative Health Services AOC as previously described above.

Medical Allied Science, Preventative Medicine, Behavioral Health, Pharmacy, Optometry, and Podiatry officers typically serve as a specialist in their respective field and progress to increased levels of leadership responsibility at the field grade ranks. These officers may be assigned to serve as staff officers, provide direct patient care, or conduct research in a variety of facilities around the world. MSC Officers serving in any AOC (with the exception of Warrant Officers) may choose to compete for MFA/AOC immaterial command opportunities at both the company and field grade level. 

 

MSC SharePoint site

Medical Service Corps (CAC Access Required)

 

 

Contact

Please note that requirements to join the MSC change regularly. Only an AMEDD/Healthcare recruiter can give you accurate and up-to-date information. To find out if you qualify call Phone: (210) 200-6476 and request to speak with a Healthcare Recruiter.

Office of the Army Medical Service Corps

(Cannot answer recruiting questions.)

Phone: (210) 221-8622 or (210) 221-5447

usarmy.jbsa.medical-coe.mbx.medical-service-corps@army.mil

Mailing Address

Chief U.S. Medical Service Corps

3630 Stanley Road, Suite 0298

Fort Sam Houston, Texas 78234

Retirement Recognition Form Submission
To ensure appropriate recognition of service and contributions upon retirement, please complete and submit the MSC Retirement Recognition Form using the link below. This form allows us to gather the necessary information to properly honor retiring personnel for their dedication and years of service.

Complete the MSC Retirement Recognition Form: FileDownloadpublic.aspx?docid=c1f1f44b-0101-4c69-a342-9d69e5e45cb2

Please submit the form at least 60 days prior to the intended retirement date to allow sufficient time for processing and planning.

 

For questions or additional assistance, contact us at usarmy.jbsa.medical-coe.mbx.medical-service-corps@army.mil. 

 

 

 

 

Throughout the past decades, “So Others May Live” served as the Medical Service Corps' motto and credo. It remains relevant in the current operating environment and into the future – serving as our “why”, capturing our proud history, since 1917, and our contributions to the Nation, Army, and Joint and Coalition partners. Our Medical Service Corps strategy map is nested under the Army Medicine and CSA priorities framework to actively manage talent and engage the total force in developing MSCs for the future environment, informing the future force structure, and synchronizing efforts in talent management.  

The MSC goal demonstrate strength in our profession and lead combat ready medical formations across the operating environment. To be ready to fight within the current operating environment, the MSC Strategy focuses on recruiting, developing, and retaining professional, agile leaders full of initiative to achieve three desired conditions:  

1.      A Corps full of premier talent that is highly motivated and prepared for now and the future (Recruit LOE).

2.      A Corps full of educated and developed officers through relevant education, mentorship, and coaching (Develop LOE).

3.      A Corps that retains and recognizes those who are prepared to integrate AHS and support transformation across the full spectrum of operations (Retain).

We will accomplish this through three lines of effort: recruit, develop, and retain. The development of LOE is our Corps’ decisive operation, accomplished through two intermediate objectives: 1) developing quality MSC officers for today and tomorrow, and 2) precision career management. As a team, through the assistant corps chiefs, consultants, field leadership teams, and the Silver Cardecus Society, we will call on each of you to assist in operationalizing our MSC strategy as we develop measures of performance and effectiveness and continuously assess and refine it.

MSC Officers excel in keeping pace with those we support, the warfighter. As the U.S. Army continues focusing on the principle of increasing lethality in formations, Army Medicine remains in lock step in support with the MSC, enabling the Armed Forces with robust medical planning, supporting semi-independent operations, optimizing medical evacuation strategies, and maximizing return-to-duty outcomes for the Joint Force …. “So That Others May Live.”