| United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA) | |
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The USAMMA Crest |
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| Active | 1942 - present day |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Army |
| Motto | "Semper Responsus" |
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, Maryland, 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.
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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, and was renamed the United States Army Medical Materiel Agency (USAMMA), effective 15 April 1965.
In 1974, USAMMA moved to Fort Detrick, Maryland and in 1994 was placed under the newly formed United States Army Medical Research and Materiel Command. In addition to the USAMMA headquarters located at Fort Detrick, USAMMA has operational maintenance and storage locations in Camp Carroll, South Korea; Sagami General Depot, Japan; Defense Depot Tracy, California; Sierra Army Depot, California; Defense Depot Hill, Utah; Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania; Naval Weapons Station Charleston, South Carolina; Husterhoeh Kaserne, Pirmasens, Germany; As Saliyah Army Base, Qatar; and Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
| No. | Name | Dates of Tenure | Military Rank |
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| 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 | 15 August 2008 - 13 August 2010 | Colonel |
| 37 | Gregory Evans | 13 August 2010 - | Colonel |