The United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), a subordinate unit of the U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command (USAMRMC) at Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick

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, Maryland

Maryland

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, serves as the U.S. Army's executive agent for strategic medical logistics programs and initiatives.

USAMMA's mission is to provide medical materiel life-cycle management and logistics solutions to the Army medical units across the full spectrum of health care missions worldwide. The Agency fields all new medical materiel for the Army Medical Department (AMEDD) and centrally manages several U.S. Army and Army Surgeon General contingency programs including the acquisition, storage, distribution, and transfer of pre-positioned stocks located ashore and afloat, as well as medical chemical defense equipment, short shelf-life pharmaceuticals, and other materiel. USAMMA is responsible for the deployment of materiel handoff teams and operational oversight of medical materiel acquisition vehicles. The Agency's core skills and technologies center on conducting life-cycle management for commercial and non-developmental items, sustaining and modernizing the Army's medical force, supporting exercises and contingency operations, and promoting medical logistics information and knowledge.

History

USAMMA's origin is traced to the early part of World War II when the Army Surgeon General recognized the need to develop Army medical materiel support to the rapidly expanding mobilization forces. The genesis of USAMMA began in 1943 when the Procurement Division of the Supply Service, Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG), was renamed the Purchase Division and transferred to the Army Medical Purchasing Office in Manhattan, New York. Later that year, the Inventory Control Branch, Distribution and Requirements Division, OTSG, was also transferred to the Army Medical Purchasing Office. The Medical Testing Laboratory transferred from Binghamton, New York, in February 1943. Later that year, the Contract Termination Branch was added. In 1944, the Renegotiation and Stock Control Divisions were moved from the OTSG to New York.

On 21 May 1953, the Army Medical Supply Control Office was organized at Brooklyn, New York, and assigned to the Surgeon General. On 30 April 1965, the unit was re-designated the Army Medical Supply Control Office and on 1 January 1957, the office was again re-designated as the Army Medical Supply Support Activity, a Class II off-post activity of the Surgeon General.

On 2 April 1965, the activity transferred from Brooklyn to Valley Forge General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania

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, and was renamed the United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), effective 15 April 1965.

In 1974, USAMMA moved to Fort Detrick

Fort Detrick

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, Maryland and in 1994 was placed under the newly formed United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command

The United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command is the United States Army's medical materiel developer, with responsibility for medical research, development, and acquisition and medical logistics management. The USAMRMC's expertise in these critical areas helps establish and maintain...

. In addition to the USAMMA headquarters located at Fort Detrick, USAMMA has operational maintenance and storage locations in Camp Carroll, South Korea

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; Sagami General Depot

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, Japan; Defense Depot Tracy, California; Sierra Army Depot

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, California; Defense Depot Hill, Utah; Tobyhanna Army Depot

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, Pennsylvania; Naval Weapons Station Charleston, South Carolina; Husterhoeh Kaserne

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, Pirmasens, Germany; As Saliyah Army Base

As Saliyah Army Base

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, Qatar; and Camp Arifjan

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, Kuwait.

Commanders of USAMMA and its precursors

No.	Name	Dates of Tenure	Military Rank
1	Alfred R. Cannon	1942–1943	Captain
2	Ellsworth W. Pohl	1943–1945	Major
3	Leonard H. Beers	1945 - 1945	Major
4	C. Bower	1945–1946	Lieutenant Colonel
5	Clark B. Williams	1946 - 1946	Colonel
6	George T.O. Reilly	1946 - 1946	Lieutenant Colonel
7	Augustus J.D. Guenther	1946–1947	Lieutenant Colonel
8	Alfred R. Cannon	1947 - 1947	Major
9	John H. Trenholm	1947–1950	Major
10	Bernard J. Kotte	1950–1951	Colonel
11	Alfred R. Cannon	1951–1953	Lieutenant Colonel
12	John J. Zurchur III	1953–1955	Lieutenant Colonel
13	Eli E. Damon	1955–1956	Colonel
14	Jesse N. Butler	1956–1959	Colonel
15	Edward J. Anderson, Jr.	1959–1962	Lieutenant Colonel
16	Alfred G. Emond	1962–1965	Lieutenant Colonel
17	Harry T. Whitaker	1965–1966	Lieutenant Colonel
18	Russell E. Julian	1966–1969	Colonel
19	F. Bruce Wells	1969–1973	Colonel
20	Fred L. Walter	1973–1975	Colonel
21	Frank W.B. Axtens	1975–1977	Colonel
22	James C. Huff, Jr.	1977–1983	Colonel
23	Lawrence J. Ryan	1983–1985	Colonel
24	Leon L. Holland	1985–1988	Colonel
25	Philip E. Livermore	1988–1990	Colonel
26	Mack C. Hill	1990–1992	Colonel
27	Richard I. Donahue	1992–1994	Colonel
28	James P. Normile	1994–1996	Colonel
29	Daryl W. Lloyd	1996–1998	Colonel
30	James J. Canella	1998–2000	Colonel
31	Roger W. Olsen	2000 - 25 May 2000	Lieutenant Colonel (Promotable)
32	David W. Williams	25 May 2000 - 2002	Colonel
33	Michael D. Daley	2002 - 18 June 2004	Colonel
34	William R. Fry	18 June 2004 - 22 September 2006	Colonel
35	Timothy E. Lamb	22 September 2006 - 15 August 2008	Colonel
36	Jeffrey Unger Jeffrey Unger -Biography:Colonel Jeffrey M. Unger is a 1983 graduate of the University of Miami, Florida, 1991 graduate of Troy State University where he received an MBA and a 2005 graduate of ICAF where he received an MS in Strategic Resource Management...	15 August 2008 - 13 August 2010	Colonel
37	Gregory Evans	13 August 2010 -	Colonel

External links

• USAMRMC website
• USAMMA website
• USAMRMC: 50 Years of Dedication to the Warfighter (1958-2008)