Posted on Nov 16, 2019
Has anyone else encountered issues surrounding the conducting of TCCC at your installation IAW DoDI 1322.24?
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I have been teaching TCCC in the military and civilian sector since 2005. I have attended legitimate and illegitimate courses (standardized and unstandardized). The entire premise of the new requirement is to place proven, life saving practices in the hands of every military member and deplorable civilian, because you can’t have a trained medic immediately available very time, at the point of injury. The DoDI called for a standardized course, which we had under the TCCC-AC and the TCCC-MP course. Then the DHA called for 4 tiers. These four tiers basically resulted in a B-con course, called TCCC-ASM, which is significantly lower than anything already in existence. The other tiers do not stray significantly from what was already recognized as AC or MP. According to the DHA, the only recognized TCCC training certification is the ARMY CLS (40 hr which includes TCCC within), TCCC by the Navy Expeditionary Medicine Course and the NAEMT course. There have been pockets of “training programs” being nudged by local leadership at installations with NAEMT sites to “conduct” this training, but avoid the “official” training and generate a local, made-up certificate for their readiness sections. In essence, pressuring NAEMT Instructors and Site Coordinators to conduct the training without registering the course in order to avoid paying the $10 certification fee. This perspective is from a “nobody cares if they have the certification. We just need to check a box to meet the readiness requirements”. The entire premise of this standardized training initiative was to establish a STANDARD. Since, outside of those 3 DHA recognized programs, there are no established guidance for training centers, instructor criteria, instructor trainers, and course management, there can be no evidence or accountability of those courses, course integrity, inspection processes or other program QC, and no means to ensure that science updates are channeled to those programs. These legitimate course take away some of local leaderships influence over training (check the box and hurry up because we have a staff meeting). The problem that we are seeing in several places is that there is NO DIRECTIVE that says “DONT DO UNOFFICIAL TRAINING” or “DO NOT DEVIATE FROM OVERSIGHT/TRAINING CENTER APPROVAL AGENCY POLICIES”. That is the interpretation by leadership. What are you thoughts?
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