CPP personnel are not alone in providing medical care from the point of injury through evacuation to a more advanced role of care. All Service members are required to have some basic medical training.

With the new medical readiness training instruction, this is changing from prior Service-specific basic first aid or self-aid and buddy care training to the DHA standardized TCCC-All Service Members (ASM) training, though Services may still have additional medical training that they add based on their mission and risks associated with that environment.

In addition to the ASM personnel's basic understanding of the MARCH sequence, they will be trained on five lifesaving skills:10

- Rapid casualty assessment
- Tourniquet application
- Hemostatic dressing/wound packing
- Pressure bandages
- Basic airway maneuvers