Soldier-Scientists from the 1st Area Medical Laboratory

Soldier-Scientists from the 1st Area Medical Laboratory Capt. Raymond Mann (right), environment science and engineering officer, and Sgt. Glenn Davis, food inspector and Savannah, Georgia native, collect soil samples for an environmental health risk assessment of Bashore Scout Reservation during their field training exercise at Fort Indiantown Gap, Pennsylvania on March 20. Although Mann, an Easton, Pennsylvania native, is part of and trains with the 1st AML, he works full time as the operations manager for the laboratory sciences directorate at the U.S. Army Public Health Center (APHC) through the Modified Table of Organization and Equipment (MTOE) Assigned Personnel (MAP). The 1st AML is one of the few U.S. Army units using the MAP program, which allows health professionals to be part of a deployable unit while they perform duties at other U.S. Army Medical Command research or medical facilities such as the APHC, the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center or the U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases. (U.S. Army photo by Angel D. Martinez-Navedo)