My experience as an official Mini-SPO (Forward Support Company CDR in a BCT) was that I grabbed a Ranger Medic handbook and did hospital surveys on PDSS because MED LTs didn’t, and SPO MED didn’t want to. As a logistician, I was trained to plan medical support and had to do it in my unit. I wished they were a bit more aggressive and owned their slice.

– learn to plan medical support. you have medics that can execute and provide advice (some of it good).

– care enough to be competent, learn, and develop/train yourself, your job isn’t that intense, you have plenty of time, especially when a junior.

– engage, open lines with the entire medical community horizontal and vertical to you, especially vertical. be familiar with who supports your BCT, the MED BDE folks or any other EAB support.

Your Captain’s Career Course is not much better I’m afraid, its only a few weeks.