Command Surgeon (J02M)

U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Command Surgeon’s Office (J02M) leads the transformation of joint forces through joint medical concept development and experimentation.

J02M recommends joint medical requirements, advances interoperability, conducts joint training, and provides ready forces and capabilities. It also provides advice on force health protection in the command's joint force provider role and oversees medical plans and policies that support the commander's initiatives.

The staff assists combatant commanders in developing medical support requirements and tasking for operations and exercises. It provides medical joint interoperability coordination to individual combatant commanders and provides military support to civilian agency planning and events.

The J02M staff identifies specific focus areas for medical concept development and experimentation to:
• Improve joint service health service support (HSS) capabilities at the operational level;
• Advance joint warfighting concepts and functional concepts as applied to HSS;
• Advance the transformation of Joint Force Health Protection concepts and capabilities necessary to support combatant commanders in the 21st century;
• Develop HSS hypotheses and conduct war game experimentation;
• And prioritize actions based on USJFCOM experiments, war games, workshops, exercises and strategic goals.

As DoD’s joint force medical trainer, the Command Surgeon’s staff supports training joint task force headquarters and their staffs through the Joint Task Force Surgeons’ Seminar. J02M also provides a channel for joint and component medical lessons learned, influences joint health service support doctrine and enhances the Joint National Training Capability.

Overseen by USJFCOM’s chief of staff, the J02M works at the command’s headquarters in Norfolk, Va.For more information about the Command Surgeon’s office, please click here to send us an email.

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