Background
Craig Hall is the founder and President of Penn Tactical Solutions. A National Registry Paramedic with 28 years of emergency response experience dating to his EMT certification in 1998, he is also a tactical police medic and currently serves as Deputy Chief of a rescue squad in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
Since 2014, Craig has served as Affiliate Faculty for the National Association of Emergency Medical Technicians, supporting Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Pre-Hospital Trauma Life Support programs across Pennsylvania and New Jersey. He provides instructor and training site validation for both states and taught the first national offering of TECC Version 2 at the EMS World and World Trauma Symposium in 2019. From 2021 through 2024 he served on the NAEMT Military Relations Council as liaison to the Special Operations Medical Association, working to bridge military and civilian EMS training and credentialing. He has served on the Program Committee for Tactical Medical Training with the Pennsylvania Municipal Police Officers' Education and Training Commission (MPOETC), helping shape the tactical medical curriculum for certified Pennsylvania law enforcement officers. His instructor work has extended internationally, including teaching tactical and pre-hospital trauma courses to civilian and military responders overseas.
Craig has provided tactical medical support at major events including the 2015 Papal Visit, the 2016 Democratic National Convention, the NFL Draft, the Army Navy Game, and the Philadelphia Eagles Super Bowl Parade. In 2021 and 2022 he served as Lead Paramedic and Assistant Director of Emergency Medical Services for a federally contracted medical response during Operation Allies Welcome, supervising the daily operations of 80 paramedics and EMTs providing care to over 15,000 Afghan refugees. He has provided briefings to planning parties for FIFA 2026 on tactical medical operations and mass gathering emergency response.
Before founding Penn Tactical Solutions in 2020, Craig served as Director of Training for a tactical equipment and simulation company, where he managed a teaching staff of 58 contracted instructors and oversaw training delivery for over 14,000 students. His earlier career includes paramedic and training coordinator roles in hospital-based and community 911 systems, and lead medical instructor for a defense contractor delivering pre-deployment medical training to U.S. Air Force personnel.
Craig's search and rescue background runs alongside his EMS and tactical work. He served as Commander of the Centre County Sheriff's Office Search and Rescue Team, is a credentialed Wilderness Search Manager, and holds Basic Cave Rescue certification through the Centre County Sheriff's Office. In 2002 he testified before the Pennsylvania House of Representatives Veterans Affairs and Emergency Preparedness Committee advocating for statewide search and rescue standards, certification, and funding.
Craig holds an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate and has been an active advocate for unmanned aircraft systems in public safety. He has worked to advance the integration of drones into EMS, fire, and law enforcement operations across applications including scene size-up, search and rescue, hazmat reconnaissance, structural assessment after collapse or fire, and tactical overwatch in support of patient access.
Craig is a published author on public safety training and operations. His article "Training Scars" appeared in EMS World, and he has written for Officer.com on topics relevant to law enforcement and tactical medical response.
Craig holds a Bachelor of Science from Penn State University, University Park, and is a certified Lean Six Sigma Black Belt. He is an Eagle Scout, a Vigil Honor member of the Order of the Arrow, and a member of the National Eagle Scout Association.
Craig founded Penn Tactical Solutions to put field-informed equipment and training in the hands of the agencies and individuals who need it. The equipment PTS carries is equipment Craig still uses on calls. The body armor PTS sells is the armor he wears as a tactical police medic. The trauma kits, tourniquets, airway tools, and field equipment in the PTS catalog have all been evaluated against the operational conditions they will actually be used in, not selected from a distributor sheet. His philosophy is straightforward: preparedness should not depend on budget, and equipment should be chosen by people who have used it on calls.
Craig lives in South Philadelphia with his partner Kyle.
Specialties
Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC)
Tactical Emergency Casualty Care (TECC)
Police Medic Operations
Major Event Medical Support
Mass Incident Response (MIRT)
Curriculum Development
Instructor Validation
Drone Mapping
Field Notes
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Stop the Bleed worked. Now civilian EMS medical directors need to authorize the next step.
Ten years of Stop the Bleed and patrol-officer tourniquet training succeeded. Civilian EMS now arrives to find tourniquets applied to wounds that did not need them. The protocol...
May 19, 2026
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The 2026 TCCC Guidelines and the Trouble With Treating Guidelines as Protocols
The 2026 TCCC Guidelines carried forward the cricothyroidotomy airway pathway and added the most substantial tourniquet conversion language CoTCCC has ever published. What each change means outside the...
May 12, 2026
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What TCCC 2026 Changes May Mean for Civilian Practice
May 3, 2026
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