Sec. 744. Report on composition of medical personnel of each military department and related matters
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter for five years, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretaries of the military departments, shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a report on the composition of the medical personnel of each military department and related matters. The report under subsection
(a)shall include the following: With respect to each military department, the following: An identification of the total number of medical personnel of the military department. An identification of the number of such medical personnel who are officers in a grade above O–6. An identification of the number of such medical personnel who are officers in a grade below O–7. An identification of the number of such medical personnel who are enlisted members. An assessment of potential issues relating to the composition of such medical personnel. A description of any plans of the Secretary to— reduce the total number of such medical personnel; or eliminate any covered position for such medical personnel. A recommendation by the Secretary for the number of covered positions for such medical personnel that should be required for purposes of maximizing medical readiness (without regard to current statutory limitations, or potential future statutory limitations, on such number), presented as a total number for each military department and disaggregated by grade. An assessment of the advisability of establishing within the Department of the Air Force, by not later than five years after the date of the enactment of this Act, a position of the Medical Officer of the Space Force with the responsibilities of advising the Chief of Space Operations on all matters relating to health care for members of the Space Force and serving as the expert on such matters in working with the heads of other Federal departments and agencies on related issues. An assessment of the necessity of maintaining the position of the Medical Officer of the Marine Corps, including— a comparison of the effects of filling such position with an officer in the grade of O–6 versus an officer in the grade of O–7; an assessment of potential issues associated with the elimination of such position; and a description of any potential effects of such elimination with respect to medical readiness. The data specified in subparagraphs
(A)through
(D)of subsection (b)(1) shall be presented as a total number and disaggregated by each medical component of the respective military department. In conducting the assessment pursuant to subsection (b)(2), the Secretary of Defense shall take into consideration the tasks, operations, and specific health care considerations that accompany the space warfighting mission of the Space Force. In this section: The term covered position means a position for an officer in a grade above O–6. The terms enlisted member and officer have the meanings given those terms in section 101(b) of title 10, United States Code. The term medical component means— in the case of the Army, the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Nurse Corps, Medical Service Corps, Veterinary Corps, and Army Medical Specialist Corps; in the case of the Air Force, members designated as medical officers, dental officers, Air Force nurses, medical service officers, and biomedical science officers; and in the case of the Navy, the Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Nurse Corps, and Medical Service Corps. The term medical personnel has the meaning given such term in section 115a(e) of title 10, United States Code. The term military department has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of such title.