You Learned It in Uniform. Now You Can Teach It.
STOP THE BLEED® began on the battlefield. Service members trained to control life-threatening bleeding, and those skills saved lives in Iraq and Afghanistan. Today the same skills are taught in schools, workplaces, and community centers across the country, and the people who brought them home are among the best qualified to teach them.
A new list on the Licensing page now makes it easy for current service members and veterans to see whether they qualify for a STOP THE BLEED® Instructor License.
Find your code
The Licensing page has long included “Military Medic/Corpsman” among the qualifying credentials, but it did not say which occupations that covered or whether other military specialties counted. The new list answers both questions. It names the Army and Marine Corps Military Occupational Specialties, Navy and Coast Guard ratings, and Air Force Specialty Codes that meet the Program’s professional credential requirement.
The list covers three groups:
- Military medical personnel, including Army combat medics, Navy hospital corpsmen, Coast Guard health services technicians, Air Force aerospace medical technicians, and pararescuemen.
- Military law enforcement, including Navy masters-at-arms and Air Force Security Forces.
- Rescue and fire personnel, including Coast Guard and Navy rescue swimmers and, with EMT or EMR certification, military firefighters.
More occupations are under review and will be added as they are confirmed.
Why these occupations
Every qualifying occupation shares two things: standardized emergency response training, and a job that requires responding when someone is hurt. The STOP THE BLEED® course builds on that foundation. A master-at-arms or a rescue swimmer already knows how to act in an emergency. The course adds the specific skills of bleeding control, and the license lets them pass those skills on.
Veterans are eligible
There is no deadline. Veterans who served in a qualifying occupation remain eligible no matter how long ago they left the service, as long as their discharge was honorable or general. Your DD-214 documents both your occupation and your character of service.
How to get started
- Find your branch and occupation code on the Licensing page.
- Take a STOP THE BLEED® class if you haven’t already.
- Apply for an Instructor License through one of the licensing organizations listed on the page.
The next person to save a life could be someone sitting in your class. You already have the foundation. Now you can pass it on.