2-69. The medical battalion (multifunctional) is an echelon above brigade headquarters. The unit provides mission command, administrative assistance, logistical support, and technical supervision for assigned and attached medical functional organizations (companies, detachments, and teams) task-organized for support to deployed forces operating within the area of responsibility. The medical battalion (multifunctional) can be deployed to provide mission command of medical forces during early entry operations and facilitate the reception, staging, onward movement, and integration of theater medical forces. All echelon above brigade medical companies, detachments, and teams in theater may be assigned, attached, or placed under the OPCON of a medical battalion (multifunctional). It is under the mission command of the MEDBDE (SPT) and/or MEDCOM (DS). See FM 4-02 for additional information