AMEDD Overview
This department's mission is to provide ready and sustained health services and force health protection.
What is the Army Medical Department (AMEDD)?
This is your official military ID, enabling access to secure facilities and Army systems.
What is a Common Access Card (CAC)?
What does AMEDD stand for?
What is the Army Medical Department?
The number of days of annual leave a soldier earns per month.
What is 2.5 days? (total of 30 days per year)
This is the main component of a service member's compensation, determined by grade and years of service.
What is Basic Pay?
The AMEDD is comprised of this many specialized corps.
What is six? (Medical Corps, Dental Corps, Veterinary Corps, Nurse Corps, Medical Service Corps, and Medical Specialist Corps)
You can view and print your Leave and Earnings Statements (LES) and tax forms through this secure, self-service portal.
What is MyPay?
What does DEERS stand for?
What is the Defense Enrollment Eligibility Reporting System?
The maximum number of leave days a soldier can carry over into the next fiscal year, though special circumstances can increase this.
What is 60 days of leave?
This allowance is provided to soldiers for meals and is not intended to cover family members.
What is Basic Allowance for Subsistence (BAS)?
This top-tier institution for training and education is located in San Antonio, TX.
What is the Medical Center of Excellence (MEDCoE)?
This is the Army’s online Human Resources system, designed to provide integrated HR capabilities.
What is the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army (IPPS-A)?
What does CAC stand for?
What is Common Access Card?
This type of leave is granted for a soldier to deal with the death of a spouse or child.
What is bereavement leave?
This allowance helps offset the cost of housing when a soldier lives off-base.
What is Basic Allowance for Housing (BAH)?
This corps is one of the six specialized corps within the AMEDD.
What is the Medical Corps (or Dental, Veterinary, Nurse, Medical Service, or Medical Specialist Corps)?
This form is used to designate beneficiaries and provide contact information for emergencies.
What is the DD Form 93 (Record of Emergency Data)?
What does DFAS stand for?
What is the Defense Finance and Accounting Service?
Up to how many days of leave may a soldier sell back during their career?
What is 60 days of leave?
This allowance is for soldiers assigned to high-cost locations within the continental U.S. to help with non-housing costs.
What is the Continental U.S. (CONUS) Cost-of-Living Allowance (COLA)?
This corps, along with the Dental, Veterinary, Nurse, Medical Service, and Medical Specialist Corps, make up the six specialized corps of the AMEDD.
What is the Medical Corps?
This secure digital platform is used for storing and managing official personnel records.
What is the interactive Personnel Electronic Records Management System (iPERMS)?
What does IPPS-A stand for?
What is the Integrated Personnel and Pay System – Army?
A new parent who is a service member may be authorized this many weeks of parental leave following a birth or adoption.
What is 12 weeks of parental leave?
This is a monthly, non-taxable allowance of $250 for soldiers assigned to locations where their families can't join them.
What is Family Separation Allowance (FSA)?