Medic training.

A national combat-medic qualification system rebuilt from the ground up — and the vehicles that carry casualties to the medics who now know what to do.

Combat medic training & evacuation

Rebuilding a national training system.

In 2023, after the widespread destruction of Ukraine's military medical training facilities, CMA began rebuilding the country's battlefield medical education system in cooperation with the Frontline Medical Ukraine Fund and the Ukrainian Military Medical Academy. Summer 2024 brought the full implementation of a standardized Combat Medic Qualification Course — six weeks, eight hours a day. Across 2025 and 2026 the programme expanded to support combat medic education throughout Ukraine.

The reason this matters is visible in the wards. Returning from Ukraine, Frontline Medical's General Mark Arnold noticed that nearly all arm and leg amputations sat near the hip and shoulder — exactly where soldiers are trained to place a tourniquet, high and tight. That pattern means tourniquets were never converted or removed in time to save the limb. Officials estimate 70% of amputations in Ukraine are avoidable with increased medic training. It is a training problem, which makes it a solvable one.

Training only counts if the casualty reaches the medic. That is why the second initiative in this program is mobility: a fleet of quad bikes purpose-fitted for casualty evacuation out of terrain no ambulance can enter. CMA supports 18 medical locations throughout Ukraine on training These facilities are used 24 hours a day, 7 days a week to provide ongoing education and hands-on training for medics, helping strengthen lifesaving medical capabilities across Ukraine.

Ukrainian combat medics working in the field — Thirty-two mobile simulation classrooms, taught by Ukrainian instructors.

Programme scale

The numbers behind the curriculum.

A qualification course is only real at volume. This one now graduates a class every month, across eighteen military training bases.

Combat medics trained since 2023

Standardized qualification course

New combat medics graduating every month

Sustained throughput

Mobile simulation classrooms fielded

As of 2025

Quad bikes purchased and deployed for casualty evacuation

Goal: 200 units by end of 2026

Inside this programme

Two initiatives.

One builds the medics. The other gets the wounded to them. Together they are the frontline medical system Ukraine did not have in 2022.

2023 – Present

Combat medic qualification programme

Trauma training equipment handed to a Ukrainian combat medic unit — Tourniquet conversion is a taught skill, not an instinct.

A six-week, eight-hour-a-day qualification course delivered by Ukrainian physicians to Ukrainian medics, run as a cooperative project between the Frontline Medical Ukraine Fund and the Cleveland Maidan Association. CMA funds the classrooms, the simulation equipment, the ultrasound devices, and the instructor pipeline that keeps the curriculum consistent from base to base.

More than 20,400 combat medics have completed the course, with 720 new medics graduating each month. Thirty-two mobile simulation classrooms serve eighteen military training bases — the Army's three branches, the National Guard, Border Control, and HUR — plus fourteen dispersed training locations. A further 794 Ukrainian medics have trained internationally, and leadership and instructor development programmes are now established so the system reproduces itself.

Total educational investment through 2025 stands at approximately $1.61 million: $740,000 for the first eighteen classroom simulation systems, $560,000 for fourteen more, $140,000 in replacement educational equipment, $50,000 in gap-filling purchases, and $120,000 for thirty-two portable ultrasound systems.

Timeline

2023 — rebuild of the training system begins
Summer 2024 — standardized course fully implemented
2025–2026 — expansion nationwide

Investment 2023–2025

$740,000 — first 18 classroom simulation systems
$560,000 — 14 additional classroom systems
$140,000 — replacement educational equipment
$120,000 — 32 portable ultrasound systems
$50,000 — gap-filling equipment

Reach

18 military training bases
14 dispersed training locations
794 medics trained internationally
Instructor and leadership development established

2023 – 2026

Battlefield mobility & casualty evacuation

A CMA-funded vehicle used to move medics and equipment in Ukraine — Mobility is medicine when the ambulance cannot get there.

Quad bikes reach what ambulances cannot: treelines, shelled approach roads, and drone-observed ground where a full-size vehicle is a target. Fitted with evacuation trailers, they move casualties from the point of injury to a stabilization point in the window that decides survival.

Initial deployment began in 2023, expanded across frontline brigades through 2024 and 2025, and went nationwide in 2026. Through summer 2025, $2.45 million had been invested in vehicles, trailers, repairs, modifications, transportation, and logistics; a further $635,000 was secured in fall 2025 and $200,000 more announced in January 2026.

One hundred and sixty-two quad bikes have been purchased and deployed, with a goal of 200 units by the end of 2026. The same fleet resupplies medical units with training equipment. Thousands of casualties have now been evacuated from ground inaccessible to ambulances.

Timeline

2023 — initial deployment
2024–2025 — expansion across frontline brigades
2026 — fleet expanded nationwide

Investment

$2.45M through summer 2025
$635,000 secured fall 2025
$200,000 announced January 2026

Results

162 quad bikes deployed
200-unit goal for end of 2026
Thousands of casualties evacuated
Doubles as a training-equipment resupply fleet

Support this programme

Fund a classroom, or a quad bike.

A simulation classroom outfits a training base for years. A quad bike and trailer pulls casualties out of ground an ambulance cannot enter. Gifts can be made directly to CMA or through the Frontline Medical Ukraine Fund at the Columbus Foundation.

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