The Marine Corps is making changes to its medical training requisites
By Hope Hodge Seck
Apr 17, 05:27 PM
Corpsman Navy HM3 Kader Paz evaluates Marines and sailors on their ability to conduct tactical combat casualty care in Okinawa, Japan, in 2020. (Lance Cpl. Alexis Moradian/Marine Corps)
As the Marine Corps prepares for a major future fight that may see small units dispersed and operating in hard-to-reach places, it’s also making changes to its military medical requirements regarding who gets medical training and what level of training various battlefield medical providers receive.
The policy updates have to do with tactical combat casualty care, or TCCC, the combat lifesaving program developed by the Defense Health Agency. The first of a trio of changes, published in a July Marine administrative message, requires all Fleet Marine Force and supporting establishment Marines to receive certification in TCCC-All Service Member, the base level of the program, within 12 months of deploying.
TCCC-All Service Member training includes how to stop a hemorrhage and how to recognize a number of other critical medical issues.
This brings the Marine Corps into alignment with a Defense Department directive that all troops get TCCC-All Service Member training. The service replaced its first aid training with this program at boot camps in 2021 and has announced that 85% of the force will be TCCC-ASM certified by 2023.
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