A combat medic is a trained soldier who is responsible for providing first aid and frontline trauma care on the battlefield. Also responsible for providing continuing medical care in the absence of a readily available physician, including care for disease and non battle injury. Combat medics are normally co-located with the combat troops they serve in order to easily move with the troops and monitor ongoing health.
One can find a combat medic in battlefields, where they treat the injured. They differ from simple medics, because they run into the open battlefield with the risk of being shot, just to save people's lives.
Health Care Specialists are often called "combat medics" in the Army, because some soldiers in this MOS are assigned to deploy with Army combat units. Medics must provide emergency medical treatment directly on the battlefield. For acceptance to the U.S. Army medic corps you need the following.
16 weeks training at Fort Sam Huston Texas
ASVAB score GT 104 and ST 101
No specialized security clearance required.
Strength requirement standard: Moderate to heavy
Physical profile: 222121
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There are many types of medics in the military. The Army has relegated several enlisted medical MOS into a single MOS, which covers a wide range of jobs.
I enlisted as a Combat Medic in the Army (prior to the reorganization where it became folded into the "Healthcare Specialist" MOS). I served with line units, and was essentially a front line paramedic. Some medics never leave the wire, and will work at aid stations, operating rooms, etc. Some will have jobs such as x-ray technicians and other medical support jobs.
A Corpsman is a navy medic. Typically when somebody is talking about a combat medic, they mean a line medic, or a medic who actually goes into combat with a unit vs a medic who works in a hospital.
Same as any other job in the military. Go to a recruiter, score well enough on the ASVAB to qualify and tell your recruiter that you want to be a medic. Make sure it says medic (68W in the US army) on your contract.
In the military you get paid by rank and if you are in a war zone the pay is a bit higher. When you first go into the military you are the lowest rank so you get the lowest pay.
Yes.
there is not a set salary for a combat medic... It all depends on your ranking within the military. You can pull up pay charts for time in service/rank, etc... To see exactly what the monetary reward is.
Yes the can, some non medic soldiers also get training on starting iv's by going through the combat life savers course. Since the reorganisation of Army MOS structure circa 2001 - 2002, the MOS of Combat Medic has been greatly expanded, and also covers a lot of personnel who previously wouldn't have been classed as combat medics under the old structure (91B was the MOS for a Combat Medic previously - now it's 68W). With the reorganisation, new requirements were put in place for Combat Medics, one of which was that a Combat Medic should hold a basic EMT licence (national registry).
He is a military medic.
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Typically, when someone is talking about a combat medic, they are talking about a line medic. A line medic is attached to a unit both in combat and in a garrison environment. A line medic does many of the same things in garrison that he would do during a deployment. This could be running daily sick call or acting as a lifeguard during water PT. When that same unit deploys, the medic would still run sick call, but when the platoon goes out on a mission, the medic goes with them. If the unit is hit while on mission, the medic is in charge of everything from casualty triage (determining the order in which casualties should be treated) to the actual treatment of everything from amputations to breathing problems to bloody noses or twisted ankles. The combat medic is one of the most important people in the unit. It is important that he take his job very seriously so that the men in his unit know they can depend on him.
91B20 is a US Army Medical Specialist (Combat Medic)
Yes, they're known as Para Rescue, although the context is a bit different from what an Army combat medic would be.
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