Training on Tactical Combat Casualty Care skills using the current, standardized curriculums developed by the Joint Trauma System, Defense Health Agency. Service members and DOD-EC certify in TCCC when they successfully complete the appropriate, role-based TCCC training course in accordance with their skill level. Certification in TCCC is recorded in Serv...

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

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

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...

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...

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.

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.

Any member of the Armed Forces, civilian employee of the Department of Defense, or personal services contract employee under Title 10, United States Code, Section 1091 authorized by the Department of Defense to perform health care functions.

A process by which a Military Department, agency, or association grants recognition to an individual who has met certain predetermined qualifications specified by the Military Departments, agency, or association.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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