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Joint Mortuary Affairs Center
JMAC MISSION:
- Provide world class Mortuary Affairs training for officer, enlisted, and civilian personnel from all branches of the armed services.
- Develop Joint and Army Mortuary Affairs doctrine.
- Execute EA functions to ensure continuous, sustainable, and global joint mortuary affairs support.
– Advise the U.S Army and Joint staffs on MA issues.
– Provide comprehensive Mortuary Affairs expertise and technical assistance to all Services & Combatant Commands.
– Monitor current operations and readiness.
– Maintain EA records; conduct inquiries, perform analysis, and prepare reports for Senior Leaders.
– Interface with federal and DoD agencies to address issues of national significance.
JMAC VISION:
The JMAC is a world-class training and executive agent organization enabling Mortuary Affairs Units, Soldiers, and Leaders to provide expert mortuary affairs support to the Army and Joint Forces across the full spectrum of operations.
JMAC EXECUTIVE AGENT MISSION:
DOD Directive 1300.22, dated 3 Feb 2000, identifies the Department of the Army (DA) as the Executive Agent (EA) for Mortuary Affairs (MA) within the Department of Defense.
Effective 1 Oct 2008, Army G-4 directed the Army Quartermaster School at Ft Lee, VA to stand up a provisional Joint Mortuary Affairs Center to execute the Army's EA mission.
DA approved the JMAC Concept Plan on 4 May 2009, establishing the JMAC at Ft Lee under the Quartermaster School, with Army G4 maintaining oversight of the EA mission.
The JMAC has the mission to, "ensure continuous, sustainable, and global mortuary affairs support" for the DOD. The JMAC monitors DOD capabilities, provides technical assistance to major commands, drafts MA policy for the Army and DOD, and serves as the subject matter expert (SME) to the Joint and Service staffs.
This page was last updated on:
May 14, 2013