Nonmedical Department of Defense person who has received additional trauma training and equipment, providing enhanced medical treatment beyond self-aid/buddy aid.

Any military operation supporting DOD objectives, both inside and outside the continental United States, resulting in Service members and DOD-EC personnel placed on contingency, deployment, or contingency deployment orders, including but not limited to: noncombatant evacuation; homeland defense; defense support of civil authorities; foreign humanitarian a...

Department of Defense activities conducted outside the United States and its territories to directly relieve or reduce human suffering, disease, hunger, or privation.

The ability to train together coherently, effectively, and efficiently to achieve medical training in support of tactical, operational, and strategic objectives.

The ability of military forces to fight and meet the demands of assigned missions.

Tactical Combat Casualty Care skill-level curriculum and training developed for Service members who perform duties as combat lifesavers.

A DOD-approved location where Service members or DoD-EC personnel receive trauma training (hospital and pre-hospital) in support of the DOD’s mission set.

Field medical care applied beyond doctrinal planning time-lines in order to decrease patient mortality and morbidity.  Prolonged field care uses limited resources and is sustained until the patient arrives at the next appropriate level of care.

Evidence-based best-practice pre-hospital trauma care guidelines customized for battlefield use that are reviewed and updated by the Committee on Tactical Combat Casualty Care on an ongoing basis. 

Training on Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) skills using the current, standardized curriculums developed by the Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency at the appropriate interval after a Service member or DOD-EC initially certifies in TCCC.

A Joint Trauma System-approved list of procedures that aligns with scope of practice or training completed during initial Tactical Combat Casualty Care certification.

An organized network of trauma care specialists within each of the geographical CCMDs and select functional CCMDs responsible for optimizing trauma care in support of CCDR requirements. The CCMD Trauma System may be scaled to accommodate the ROMO by maintaining a framework of trauma care specialists assigned to regionally aligned medical treatment facilit...

An individual who has received special training or education in a health-related field and who performs services in or for the DOD in that field. A health-related field may include administration, direct provision of patient care, or ancillary or other support services. Health care personnel include, but are not limited to, individuals licensed, certified...

Individual, collective, and unit medical training, both initial and sustainment, required to ensure that Service members and DOD-EC personnel are capable of performing operational missions.  It comprises courses, hands-on training, and exercises to develop and maintain military medical skills.

A set of trauma management guidelines customized for use in the operational setting that maintains a sharp focus on the most common causes of preventable death resulting from combat.