Which arrangement reflects the staffing for a Marine Logistics Group’s preventive medicine team?

• A. Two physicians and a nurse
• B. A field sanitation squad and a microbiology lab
• C. A dental team
• D. Medical Battalion; 8 - 10 Preventive Medicine Techs; 1 Entomologist; 2 Environmental Health Officers

Answer: (D)

Preventive medicine in a Marine Logistics Group is organized as a battalion-level capability staffed to provide broad public health and environmental health support across dispersed units. The staffing mix of multiple Preventive Medicine Technicians, plus an entomologist and Environmental Health Officers, delivers the full range of field preventive functions: technicians handle surveillance, sanitation inspections (food service, water quality, waste handling), outbreak response, and pest management; the entomologist leads vector surveillance and control to prevent insect-borne disease; the Environmental Health Officers provide leadership, specialized environmental health expertise, and ensure compliance with health standards across operations. This combination ensures ready public health coverage for both garrison and deployed environments under the Medical Battalion’s preventive medicine component. The other options don’t provide this comprehensive, specialized preventive medicine capability: they either emphasize clinical staff without the preventive-focused team or describe assets rather than the staffing composition needed to support broad preventive health operations.