The TCCC card is a component of more than 10 Army medical device unit assemblages, which means the total Army stocks thousands of TCCC cards. As cards are used, they need to be replaced by units.

“When the medic is task-saturated, and focused on their critical patient, it is difficult to write legibly on the patient’s TCCC card in a vibrating helicopter with an indelible marker ...

That’s because the curriculum, known as Tier 2 Tactical Combat Casualty Care, could become the new, uniform standards of methods taught to troops with non-medical jobs if approved by the Pentagon.