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Army 68W × California

68W Combat Medic Specialist

Only the agency homepage was retrieved. No California EMT or paramedic requirement text was imported. Local EMS agency rules were not copied.

Not imported

An official page was attempted and could not be used. Nothing was guessed.

Needs expert review

  • EMS Compact: not in the member grid

    California is not in the member-state grid retrieved 2026-09-27. That is not a finding that the state forbids EMS practice.

    Interstate Commission for EMS Personnel Practice. Retrieved 2026-09-27. Sign-off not recorded.

    Compact source (opens in the browser)

  • Nurse Licensure Compact: not in the implementation table

    California does not appear in the NLC implementation table in the map PDF retrieved 2026-09-27.

    National Council of State Boards of Nursing, Nurse Licensure Compact. Retrieved 2026-09-27. Sign-off not recorded.

    Compact source (opens in the browser)
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No licensing sentence was imported for 68W in California. The attempt below failed, or the page that loaded did not state a rule this app could copy. Nothing was guessed, including whether a license is required.

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Needs expert review

29-2043.00 Paramedics

Occupation linkage review: needs_review. Retrieved 2026-09-27. O*NET site updated August 25, 2026. Sign-off not recorded.

  • Perform emergency cardiac care, such as cardioversion and manual defibrillation.
  • Perform emergency invasive intervention before delivering patient to an acute care facility.
  • Coordinate work with other emergency medical team members or police or fire department personnel.
  • Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
  • Comfort and reassure patients.
  • Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
  • Operate equipment, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), external defibrillators, or bag valve mask resuscitators, in advanced life support environments.
  • Perform emergency pharmacological interventions.
  • Administer drugs, orally or by injection, or perform intravenous procedures.
  • Attend training classes to maintain certification licensure, keep abreast of new developments in the field, or maintain existing knowledge.
  • Observe, record, and report to physician the patient's condition or injury, the treatment provided, and reactions to drugs or treatment.
  • Instruct emergency medical response team about emergency interventions to ensure correct application of procedures.
  • Coordinate with treatment center personnel to obtain patients' vital statistics and medical history, to determine the circumstances of the emergency, and to administer emergency treatment.
  • Lift and move patients using assistive devices, such as stretchers and stairchairs.
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Board notes

  • Needs expert review

    Not imported

    On 2026-09-27 the California Emergency Medical Services Authority homepage and the /emt/ URL did not return certification-rule text (a loading shell and a session-timeout page). No California EMT or paramedic requirement, fee, or military crosswalk was copied. Nothing was guessed, including whether a license is required.

    Fetch result: 2026-09-27: https://emsa.ca.gov/ returned HTML whose visible text was a loading shell at https://www.emsa.ca.gov/caemsa. https://emsa.ca.gov/emt/ redirected to a session-timeout page. No certification rule, fee, or military crosswalk was in the text that loaded.

    California Emergency Medical Services Authority. Retrieved 2026-09-27. No rule was copied from this attempt. Sign-off not recorded.

    Attempted page (opens in the browser)

EMS office on file: California Emergency Medical Services Authority (opens in the browser). That link is not a promise that the page grants a credential.

Related civilian job titles (not licenses)

O*NET occupation matches · 68W

All 68-series crosswalk

Occupation classification only. Not a license, not military equivalency. Retrieved 2026-09-26.

This page includes filtered information from O*NET military crosswalk files by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). Used under the CC BY 4.0 license (opens in the browser) (O*NET license page (opens in the browser)). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA. Military Credential Bridge filtered these files to Army 68-series rows and did not add occupation codes by hand. USDOL/ETA has not approved, endorsed, or tested these modifications. Military Occupational Classification rows are from the Defense Manpower Data Center crosswalk distributed with the O*NET files. A linkage is an occupation classification, not a civilian license.

Not imported · needs review

29-2042.00 Emergency Medical Technicians. 29-2042.00 does not appear on the Army 68W row in military_crosswalk/milx0724.csv. The 2015 enhanced-analysis workbook lists retired code 29-2041.00 Emergency Medical Technicians and Paramedics instead. This gap is recorded for review and is not imported as a 68W match.

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Research notes: pay, licensing, and VA dataOfficial data that still needs expert review

Pay range

Needs expert review

  • Annual median (Paramedics) $74,590. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS060000000000029204313. Checked 2026-09-27. Source year 2025.

    Copied from the active enlisted 68W row in DMDC file milx0724 (O*NET crosswalk updated August 2024): the only O*NET-SOC code on that row is 29-2043.00 Paramedics. That code is not NREMT Paramedic and is not a Florida or Texas paramedic certificate. The same DMDC row does not list a separate Emergency Medical Technician occupation. Florida and Texas EMT/paramedic rules in this app stay on the curated primary-source pathways. Needs human/SME review before this row is used to describe credential eligibility.

    BLS OEWS (opens in the browser)

    Checked 2026-09-27. Source year 2025.

  • Annual mean (Paramedics) $77,740. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS060000000000029204304. Checked 2026-09-27. Source year 2025.

    Copied from the active enlisted 68W row in DMDC file milx0724 (O*NET crosswalk updated August 2024): the only O*NET-SOC code on that row is 29-2043.00 Paramedics. That code is not NREMT Paramedic and is not a Florida or Texas paramedic certificate. The same DMDC row does not list a separate Emergency Medical Technician occupation. Florida and Texas EMT/paramedic rules in this app stay on the curated primary-source pathways. Needs human/SME review before this row is used to describe credential eligibility.

    BLS OEWS (opens in the browser)

    Checked 2026-09-27. Source year 2025.

Research details

Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.

Licensed occupation

Needs expert review

Licensed occupation in California.

  • Epinephrine Auto-injector Certification (EPI), Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), Advanced Emergency Medical Technician (AEMT), and Paramedic License (EMT-P)

This line is evidence that the file lists a license. It is not a determination that military training meets the license.

Research details
State/Federal Licensed Occupations (opens in the browser)

Checked 2026-09-27. Source date 20240522. Sign-off not recorded.

VA Intermediate Care Technician

Needs expert review

Not imported. The VA page for this role could not be found when it was checked on 2026-09-27, so no duties, pay, or eligibility are shown.

Research details

Not imported. HTTP 404 Not Found. https://vacareers.va.gov/ returned HTTP 200 and the saved HTML did not contain Intermediate Care Technician. No duties, pay, or eligibility were copied.

Attempted VA page (opens in the browser)

Retrieved 2026-09-27. Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.

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