Air Force Medical Support Agency

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The Air Force Medical Support Agency was an agency that provided support to the Surgeon General of the United States Air Force in medical force management. It also provided operational support for medical capabilities used in global, homeland security and force health protection.{{cite web|url= http://www.afms.af.mil/afmoa/ |author=No byline|title=Air Force Medical Operations Agency|date=|publisher=Air Force Medical Service|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20140719123907/http://www.afms.af.mil/afmoa/ |archive-date=July 19, 2014|access-date=March 24, 2025}}{{Cite journal|author=No byline|date=2011|title=Field Operating Agencies|volume=LV|issue=3|page=18|url=https://www.af.mil/Portals/1/documents/airman_archive/The%20Book%202011.pdf|journal=Airman Magazine, The Book 2011|access-date=March 24, 2025}}

The agency was inactivated on 28 June 2019, and its functions were consolidated into the Air Force Medical Operations Agency, which became the Air Force Medical Readiness Agency.{{cite web|url=https://www.airuniversity.af.edu/News/Display/Article/1895513/air-force-stands-up-air-force-medical-readiness-agency/|title=Air Force stands up Air Force Medical Readiness Agency|publisher=Air Force Surgeon General Public Affairs|date=July 3, 2019|access-date=May 25, 2021}}

Lineage

Established as the Air Force Medical Service Center and activated on 1 July 1978
Redesignated Air Force Office of Medical Support on 1 July 1985
Redesignated Air Force Medical Support Agency on 1 July 1992{{cite web|url= http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=14019 |author=No byline|title=Factsheet Air ForceMedical Support Agency|date=|publisher=Air Force Historical Research Agency|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20100509185754/http://www.afhra.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=14019 |archive-date=May 9, 2010|access-date=March 25, 2025}}

: Inactivated on 28 June 2019

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United States Air Force, 1 July 1978 – 28 June 2018

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Separate Operating Agency, 1 July 1978
Field Operating Agency, 5 February 1991 – 28 June 2019

=Stations=

Brooks Air Force Base, Texas, 1 July 1978Mueller, p. 56
Arlington, Virginia, Unknown – 28 June 2019

References

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{{cite book|last=Mueller|first=Robert|title=Air Force Bases, Vol. I, Active Air Force Bases Within the United States of America on 17 September 1982|url= https://media.defense.gov/2010/Sep/21/2001330255/-1/-1/0/AFD-100921-026.pdf |access-date=December 17, 2016|year=1989|publisher=Office of Air Force History|location=Washington, DC|isbn=0-912799-53-6}}