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18D Special Forces Medical Sergeant

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Overview

A Special Forces Medical Sergeant provides medical care and treatment using conventional and unconventional warfare tactics and techniques. The sergeant performs this work during unilateral, combined, coalition, joint, interagency, and multinational operations.

Minimum clearance: Secret

Minimum ASVAB: GT 110 and CO 100

ASVAB policy: Not policy-reviewed · coverage unknown · as of 2026-10-18

Program scope has not been reviewed.

Policy applicability and coverage of the program's score routes have not been reviewed. Shown-route arithmetic is not an eligibility decision.

Source: smartbook-611-21-ch10c-fy2025 (source date 2025-12). Policy applicability has not been established.

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Core Skills

  • Medical care in multinational operations

Civilian Career Paths

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Emergency Medical Technicians

Providing medical care and treatment during military operations offers a foundation for civilian prehospital patient care.

How to prepare: Ask your State EMS Office to review your training and identify the applicable certification and skills-verification route. National Registry certification alone does not authorize EMS practice; state authorization is required.

What the civilian work involves
  • Administer first aid treatment or life support care to sick or injured persons in prehospital settings.
  • Assess nature and extent of illness or injury to establish and prioritize medical procedures.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epocrates
  • Informed EMS Field Guide

Medical Assistants

Military medical care and treatment experience provides a patient-care foundation for medical assisting.

How to prepare: Have AMT review your military medical training against its Registered Medical Assistant military eligibility route.

What the civilian work involves
  • Interview patients to obtain medical information and measure their vital signs, weight, and height.
  • Explain treatment procedures, medications, diets, or physicians' instructions to patients.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Epic Systems
  • eClinicalWorks EHR software

Training & Development

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Getting Started

  • Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)

    Supports entry into medical assisting through AMT's military education route.

    Eligibility and preparation: The military route requires graduation within the last four years, or scheduled graduation, from a formal United States Armed Forces medical services training program. Applicants must pass the AMT RMA examination to become certified.

    For: Medical Assistants

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (6 documents)
  1. Army COOL MOC feed: 18D Special Forces Medical Sergeant

    [1] data/authority/army-codes.json entry 18D (OSD COOL feed, fetched 2026-07-25); DB rank enlisted, authority codeType enlisted

    Supports: Medical care in multinational operations, Emergency Medical Technicians (O*NET 29-2042.00), Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

  2. O*NET: Emergency Medical Technicians

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Emergency Medical Technicians (O*NET 29-2042.00)

  3. National Registry : EMT Full Education Program Pathway

    [3] Opening requirements list

    Supports: Emergency Medical Technicians (O*NET 29-2042.00)

  4. National Registry : Legal Differences Between Certification and Licensure

    [4] What if my state certifies, not licenses, EMS professionals?

    Supports: Emergency Medical Technicians (O*NET 29-2042.00)

  5. O*NET: Medical Assistants

    [5] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00)

  6. American Medical Technologists : Medical Assistant (RMA)

    [6] Check Eligibility and RMA Military Route

    Supports: Medical Assistants (O*NET 31-9092.00), Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)

    [7]COOL credential mapping: Registered Medical Assistant (RMA) · 18D cached COOL credential feed

    Supports: Registered Medical Assistant (RMA)

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