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Army 68W × Virginia

68W Combat Medic Specialist

The provider page names Army Combat Medic Specialist (68W) among specialties that may request to challenge the EMT exam. A request is not a granted certification. Needs review.

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We copied a sentence from the state page. It is not a yes.

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  • EMS Compact: in the member grid

    Virginia 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 Virginia 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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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

    Re-read on 2026-09-27, Virginia's Office of EMS page says recognized U.S. military medical occupational specialties may request to challenge the EMT certification exam. The list on that page includes Army Combat Medic Specialist (68W), Army Special Forces Medical Sergeant (18D), Air Force Aerospace Medical Service Technician (4N0X1), and Navy/Marine Corps Hospital Corpsman (HM). A challenge request is not issuance of a certification. The page says a challenge candidate applies online with a current military medic card (or another listed license), a CPR card, and a driver's license or U.S. passport. After the office approves the application, the candidate completes 40 hours, Virginia psychomotor competency verification, and the National Registry EMT cognitive exam. The same page also says the office recognizes all current National Registry certifications for reciprocity, and that legal recognition of a current EMS certification from another state or U.S. territory is considered at the EMT level only, for a maximum of one calendar year or the time left on the present certification, whichever is shortest. Those reciprocity and legal-recognition sections do not name an MOS. 'May request' is the office's wording, not a guarantee that a 68W application will be approved.

    Virginia Department of Health, Office of EMS. Retrieved 2026-09-27. Needs expert review. Sign-off not recorded.

    Source page (opens in the browser)

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    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)

EMS office on file: Virginia Department of Health, Office of 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.

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

Pay range

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  • Annual median (Paramedics) $60,480. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS510000000000029204313. 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) $60,150. BLS OEWS 2025, series OEUS510000000000029204304. 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.

VA Intermediate Care Technician

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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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