Military medics are REQUIRED to be National Emergency Medical Technician an certified per the regs. Many choose not to keep up with this line item.
Over the last 5 years there has been a push within the military leadership to enforce this requirement more stringently, it had often been let slip.
An MOS Qualified medic should be NEMT, and most E6+ should be Paramedic certified.
Failure to be thusly qualified is primarily an individual failure to maintain standards and concurrently a failure of leadership to enforce standards.
Exactly. But I don't expect the culture will change in my lifetime after 6 terms of degrading leadership...