What are the Role 3 USAF assets?

• A. CCATT and AFTH
• B. EMEDS Health Response Team (HRT) and CP-EMEDS
• C. EMEDS+10, EMEDS+25, Air Force Theater Hospital (AFTH)
• D. FRSS and EMEDS+10

Answer: (C)

Role 3 care in the USAF provides theater-level medical care with surgical capability and inpatient treatment close to the point of injury. The assets that make up this level are Expeditionary Medical System packages and the Air Force Theater Hospital, all designed to deliver definitive trauma care within the deployed environment. EMEDS+10 and EMEDS+25 are the smaller, mobile hospital packages that bring resuscitation, surgery, and inpatient services to the forward area, with increasing capacity and capability as you move from 10 to 25 beds. The Air Force Theater Hospital is the larger, more capable facility within the theater, offering extensive surgery, critical care, imaging, labs, and long-term inpatient care. Together, these assets establish the full hospital-level capability required for Role 3 care.

Other listed assets operate in different roles or contexts. For example, a Critically Care Air Transport Team focuses on moving patients rather than establishing or operating a hospital; Health Response Team and CP-EMEDS refer to other small-scale or specialized medical configurations, not the core Role 3 hospital system; and a Forward Resuscitative Surgical System provides rapid, forward surgical capability but does not constitute the theater-level hospital structure used for definitive care.