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NCTMA's mission is to support and advance tactical medicine throughout North Carolina and the surrounding areas. Providers of tactical medicine include EMS personnel providing medical support to the tactical teams of local, state, and federal law enforcement agencies, military special forces medics. Private and community college-based training organizations, and businesses that manufacture and market necessary medical and tactical gear are also essential to the endeavor.

For more about NCTMA and NCTMA membership, see the About NCTMA page.

NCTMA's mailing address is: PO Box 1317 Youngsville, NC 27596.

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Quick Updates:
 

Annual MEETING: The 2011 Annual NCTMA meeting was held in conjunction with Emergency Medicine Today, North Carolina's annual statewide EMS conference in Greensboro, NC in October 2011.

TRAINING:   The 2011 NCTMA Tactical Medicine Training Conference was held at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston Salem, NC in JUNE, 2011. It was a huge success - pictures are now posted on the Training Page!

               See the Training Page for more info and pictures of this and previous NCTMA training conferences.

NCTMA Officers and Regional Representatives
     The NCTMA Board of Directors for 2011 - 2012 are:

                         Officers                                                       Email                             
          President                    Michael Bachman        President@NCTMA.net
          Vice President            Jim Poole                      Vice.President@NCTMA.net
          Sec / Treasurer          Henry Smith                  Sec.Treas@NCTMA.net

                 Regional Representatives                                 Email                           
          Western Region         Kevin Caldwell              Western.Rep@NCTMA.net
          Central Region           Michael Maher             Central.Rep@NCTMA.net
          Eastern Region           Alfred Everington        Eastern.Rep@NCTMA.net

Patches  & T-shirts
Patches with the subdued NCTMA logo are just $4 each. T-Shirts (black) are just $10. Sweatshirts (grey) are $18.
A limited supply is available to NCTMA members only. Email us at membership@NCTMA.net to order.

Newsletter:  The NCTMA Newsletter has been highly successful. Members can download all previous newletters in the archives located in the members only area.

Submissions are now being accepted for announcements, team profiles, equipment reviews, and articles on medical and tactical topics. If you would like to submit an article for the newsletter, please contact us at NCTMANews@NCTMA.net.

Mailing Address:  NCTMA's mailing address is: PO Box 1317 Youngsville, NC 27596.

Other News:

The Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC): The Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC) was convened to expedite the appropriate transition of military medical lessons leaned from the battlefield to civilian crisis response in order to reduce preventable causes of death in both our first responders and civilian population. The Committee for Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (C-TECC) is modeled after the Committee for Tactical Combat Casualty Care (CoTCCC) and is comprised of a broad range of interagency operational and academic leaders in the practice of high threat medicine and fire/rescue from across the nation, including members from emergency medicine, emergency medical services, police, fire, and the military Special Operations community. (Several nationally prominent leaders from North Carolina are involved in this important committee.)

          <Click here for article from the Journal of Special Operations Medicine>

Fallen NC SWAT Officer  Our thoughts and prayers go out to the family of Officer Fred Thornton and the extended family of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department. A 23 year SWAT veteran, Officer Thornton was critically injured on Feb 25, 2011 after he returned from a SWAT call. A flash-bang grenade, which explodes with a blinding light and a loud bang to distract suspects, went off while Thornton was trying to render his equipment safe, police said. Thornton was rushed to Carolinas Medical Center, where he later died.

NCTOA is back! The North Carolina Tactical Officers Association is alive and well! Visit the website, and be sure that your team is a member!

Reformed during the Summer of 2009, the Mission of the North Carolina Tactical Officers Association is to increase the overall performance, moral and professional status of law enforcement personnel by providing credible, proven, intense, realistic tactical training. We serve to provide an opportunity for tactical officers to gather together to compare ideas and experiences.

CONTOMS Training Courses announced: For nearly 20 years, CONTOMS has provided nationally-recognized, evidence-based courses in tactical medical support of law enforcement and military operations. For more information and registration, visit the CONTOMS website.

New Tactical Medicine Society Launched: The International Tactical Rescue and Medicine Society (ITRAMS) is a networking community focused on coordinating the delivery of top-tier, outcomes-based education in the constantly evolving fields of tactical rescue and medicine. ITRAMS is being launched with the assistance of the International Tactical Officer’s Training Association (ITOTA). The ITRAMS website is at www.itrams1.com 

TCCC curriculum and training materials are now available. The revised TCCC Curriculum is available on the Prehospital Trauma Life Support (PHTLS) website. The materials include Powerpoint Presentations, Training Videos, Instructor Guides, Skill Sheets, and Practical Exercise Evaluation Sheets.

The Journal of Special Operations Medicine  JSOM promotes the professional development of Special Operations medical personnel by providing a forum for the examination of the latest advancements in medicine and the history of unconventional warfare medicine. JSOM is available for free at www.jsomonline.org and USSOCOM.