Tactical Combat Casualty Care — Combat Medic / Corpsman
The full-spectrum standard for combat medics.
Tier 3 TCCC course equipping combat medics and corpsmen with advanced prehospital casualty-care skills, including blood product administration, surgical airway, and hemorrhagic shock fluid resuscitation.
Course Overview
TCCC-CMC is the Tier 3 course in the TCCC ladder and is built for the Combat Medic and Corpsman who must deliver advanced prehospital care on the battlefield. Across roughly 64 hours, the course covers 24 modules that take the student well beyond the CLS scope — including IV/IO access, tranexamic acid administration, low-titer group O whole blood and component therapy, advanced airway management (extraglottic airway, cricothyroidotomy, BVM oxygenation), bilateral needle decompression and CPR in TFC, pelvic compression devices, head-injury management with MACE 2, advanced analgesia (ketamine, fentanyl, ondansetron, naloxone), and Casualty Collection Point operations. Three delivery models exist: 8–10 day initial training, 5-day refresher, and Reserve/Guard pre-deployment training. Students must pass a 50-question online exam plus the Tactical Trauma Assessment skills checklist.
Who It's For
Military combat medics and federal medical personnel. Active duty, reserve, and federal personnel only — not offered to civilian providers.
Prerequisites
- Meet individual service members' career-track requirements per service-specific standards (assignment as a combat medic / corpsman, MOS / rating, or equivalent federal medical role)
- Refresher and Reserve/Guard pre-deployment paths require currently active or assigned Combat Medic / Corpsman status
- Access restricted to active duty, reserve, and federal medical personnel — not offered to civilian providers
Quick Facts
Duration
64 hours+
Format
In-Person
Certification
NAEMT-issued certification AND direct CoTCCC pathway (pending). TCCC-CMC (Combat Medic) qualification per CoTCCC Guidelines.
Starting From
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Upcoming Offerings
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Request a CourseCurriculum Breakdown
Day-by-day schedule and topics covered
- Principles and Application of TCCC (CoTCCC origins, phases of care, Joint Trauma System)
- Medical Equipment (JFAK, CLS kit, medic/corpsman aid bag)
- Care Under Fire (one- and two-handed windlass and ratchet tourniquets, drags and carries)
- Principles and Application of Tactical Field Care (security, communication, triage, casualty collection point)
What You'll Learn
Demonstrate the application of TCCC skills in a combat or noncombat scenario in accordance with CoTCCC Guidelines.
Describe the use of individual medical equipment components, including the medic / corpsman aid bag.
Perform Care Under Fire interventions including one- and two-handed tourniquet application, drags, and carries.
Perform Tactical Field Care including triage and consolidation of casualties at a casualty collection point.
Perform a Tactical Trauma Assessment using the MARCH PAWS sequence.
Perform massive hemorrhage control including junctional tourniquets, injectable hemostatic agents, and wound closure devices.
Perform airway management in TFC, including extraglottic airway insertion, cricothyroidotomy, BVM ventilation with oxygen, and pulse oximetry monitoring.
Perform assessment and management of respiration and chest trauma, including bilateral needle decompression.
Perform hemorrhage control in TFC including pelvic compression device application, tourniquet replacement, and tourniquet conversion.
Perform shock assessment in TFC and identify the lethal triad of hemorrhagic shock.
Perform IV or IO access on a trauma casualty during TFC.
Perform tranexamic acid administration on a bleeding trauma casualty.
Perform fluid resuscitation as part of hemorrhagic shock management, including administration of low-titer group O whole blood, fresh whole blood, plasma, and packed red blood cells.
Perform hypothermia prevention and treatment measures during TFC and TACEVAC.
Identify a head injury and apply the MACE 2 in TFC.
Perform assessment and initial treatment of penetrating eye trauma, including a rapid field test of visual acuity.
Perform analgesia administration via oral, transmucosal, intranasal, IM, and IV/IO routes (including ketamine, fentanyl, ondansetron, naloxone).
Perform antibiotic administration during TFC (moxifloxacin, ertapenem).
Perform assessment and initial management of wounds (open abdominal, impalement, amputation), burns, and fractures.
Perform monitoring of a trauma casualty including pulse oximetry, electronic vital signs, and end-tidal CO2.
Perform communication during TFC including 9-Line MEDEVAC and modified MIST reports.
Describe cardiopulmonary resuscitation in TFC.
Perform documentation of care including DD Form 1380 and the Casualty After Action Report.
Prepare casualties for evacuation during TFC.
Your Instructors
Our instructors come from diverse operational backgrounds — military and SOF medics, tactical medics supporting state and local specialty teams, federal agent medics, rescue specialists, and emergency medicine physicians. They don't just teach the material — they live it.
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