As a Combat Paramedic or Provider, you have the same responsibilities as the Combat Medic when functioning as the unit medic. In CUF, you also suppress hostile fire like the CLS and CMC, and in TFC you assume the primary role for casualty assessment and treatment, following the TCCC Guidelines. But there are some procedures and situations that your more advanced training may allow you to address closer to the point of injury than in cases where CMCs do not have immediate access to more advanced providers. Also, like the CMC-level provider, you will manage and direct on-scene casualty response efforts, coordinating the activities of other responders, both medical and nonmedical.

Additionally, you play a key role in ensuring that the training programs for the medics in your unit are preparing them for their deployed roles, and for the overall direction of the Role 1 medical response system.