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Army 68W × Texas

68W Combat Medic Specialist

Curated 68W pathways are the 2026-09-10 research set. They were not re-verified on 2026-09-26.

Pathways

We have a ranked list for 68W in Florida and Texas. Still confirm with the board.

Needs expert review

  • EMS Compact: in the member grid

    Texas is one of the 25 names in the member-state grid on emscompact.gov. The same page says privilege to practice follows a home-state license. It does not say MOS training is that license.

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

    Compact source (opens in the browser)

  • Nurse Licensure Compact: table date 2018-01-19

    The NLC map PDF lists Texas with implementation date 2018-01-19. The PDF header says Revised: Sept. 6, 2023.

    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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Ranked pathways for this cell are the 2026-09-10 research set. They were not checked again on 2026-09-26. Open the credential inventory.

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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.
O*NET details (opens in the browser)

Board notes

  • Needs expert review

    Re-read on 2026-09-27, emscompact.gov says the compact is established as state law in 28 participating states (active in 25). The member-state grid on that page lists Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wyoming. A footnote says Alaska, Arizona, and Connecticut passed EMS Compact legislation in the 2025-2026 session, pending implementation, and those three names are not in the grid. Florida, North Carolina, California, and Washington are not in the grid. The page describes immediate recognition of a home-state license in other compact member states. Military MOS training is not described as a home-state license.

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

    Source page (opens in the browser)

  • Needs expert review

    Re-read on 2026-09-27, the Texas DSHS page for military service members, veterans, and spouses says current military service members, military veterans, and military spouses who received emergency medical technician (EMT) training in the military and have a current National Registry certification are eligible for a Texas EMT certification. It says they follow the same application process as out-of-state reciprocity applicants because military courses are not Texas approved courses. It says Texas certification requires the reciprocity online application, the completed application, a $126 application fee, and an FBI background check. It also says that if a certification expires during deployment, DSHS rules allow a one-year grace period after demobilization for military personnel and spouses to renew without late fees and without skills verification. The page does not print the code 68W. Eligibility on that page is not a determination that every 68W application will be approved.

    Texas Department of State Health Services. Retrieved 2026-09-27. Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.

    Source page (opens in the browser)

  • Needs expert review

    Re-read on 2026-09-27, the Texas DSHS reciprocity page says an out-of-state certified EMS person may apply for Texas certification by reciprocity, and that Emergency Care Attendant, First Responder, and Emergency Medical Responder are not eligible. For a four-year certification it says the applicant must be at least 18 with a high school diploma or GED, must have a current out-of-state certification or a current National Registry certification that stays current until approval, must submit the online reciprocity application and pay the non-refundable application fee, must take the Texas Assessment Exam through National Registry if state certified only, must take the State of Texas jurisprudence CE course with exam, must submit Verification Form A, and must submit a fingerprint-based background check through IdentoGO. This page does not print a dollar amount and does not print the code 68W.

    Texas Department of State Health Services. Retrieved 2026-09-27. Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.

    Source page (opens in the browser)

EMS office on file: Texas Department of State Health Services, EMS (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.

O*NET search page (opens in the browser) · Occupation title check (opens in the browser)

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

Pay range

Needs expert review

  • Annual median (Paramedics) $57,500. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS480000000000029204313. 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) $57,590. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS480000000000029204304. 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 Texas.

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 20230810. 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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