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The 44th Medical Brigade is the Army's major medical command in Vietnam, and it controls 165 medical support units and over 9,000 personnel. The Headquarters and Headquarters Detachment was constituted in the Regular Army on Dec. 30, 1965, and then activated on New Year's Day 1966 at Ft. Sam Houston, Texas. Ordered to Vietnam, the brigade arrived in Saigon and set up its headquarters in a group of villas in April 1966. Becoming operational in May, the brigade was reassigned directly under U.S. Army, Vietnam, and one month later moved its headquarters to Long Binh. The mission of the 44th Medical Brigade is to provide medical service support to U. S. Army personnel, Free World Military Assistance Forces personnel and other categories of personnel as directed. |
