Background
Greg Lees brings 26 years of United States Navy and Navy Reserve service as a Hospital Corpsman to the Penn Tactical Solutions team, retiring at the rank of Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman with the Fleet Marine Force and Surface Warfare designations.
Greg served on active duty from 1985 through 1992 and was recalled to active duty multiple times as a Reservist over the course of his career. His assignments spanned the operational and clinical breadth of Navy medicine. He served as an Inpatient Ward Corpsman on medical and surgical wards and in the ICU, and worked across the Emergency Room, Pediatrics, Pharmacy, Radiology, and Laboratory environments. He served aboard two Navy combatant ships, at Naval Hospitals and Branch Medical Clinics, and within Naval Aviation commands. He spent four years attached directly to the United States Marine Corps as a Hospital Corpsman and Senior Enlisted Leader, supporting Marine Corps Infantry, Artillery, and Aviation units. He held responsibility for the care and treatment of sick and injured Sailors and Marines in operational, field, hospital, and clinical environments.
Greg held multiple Senior Enlisted Leader positions across his career, including duty as Force Corpsman for the Reserve Component of the 1st Naval Construction Division. His final assignment was Command Senior Chief, 4th Marine Air Wing, New Orleans, where he led 7,000 Sailors and Marines across 20 Squadrons and 16 Site Commands. In that role, he was responsible for medical and dental care across the command and for maintaining the medical and dental readiness required to deploy those units into combat operations.
Throughout his Navy career, Greg served as a National Registry EMT-B Instructor, Emergency Vehicle Operator Course Instructor, and CPR Instructor, training both enlisted personnel and commissioned officers across his commands.
Greg's military decorations include the Combat Action Ribbon, the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal with five awards, the Joint Meritorious Unit Citation, the Navy Unit Citation, the Navy Battle Efficiency Ribbon with two awards, the Reserve Meritorious Conduct Medal with four awards, the National Defense Service Medal with two awards, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal with two awards, the Southwest Asia Service Medal with three Bronze Campaign Stars, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Armed Forces Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon with two awards, the Armed Forces Reserve Medal with Bronze Hour Glass and M device, the Kuwait Liberation Medal from both Saudi Arabia and Kuwait, and the Navy Rifle Marksman and Pistol Sharpshooter Ribbons. He earned the Navy Enlisted Fleet Marine Force Warfare Specialist and Navy Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist designations, the two warfare qualifications that mark a Hospital Corpsman as combat-capable across both Marine and shipboard operational environments.
Greg's civilian EMS career started in 1983 as an EMT-MAST with the Volunteer Medical Service Corps of Lansdale, back when MAST trousers were standard pre-hospital equipment and a generation of EMTs learned the hard way that pneumatic compression was not the answer to every problem in the back of the rig. He went on to earn EMT-Intermediate certification in Rhode Island in 1987 and has worked continuously in pre-hospital care for the four decades since.
Greg currently serves as a 911 Paramedic with Chal-Brit Regional EMS in Chalfont, Pennsylvania. He spent fourteen years as a Paramedic and Field Training Officer with the Community Ambulance Association of Ambler, running calls across suburban Montgomery County and the Pennsylvania Turnpike, and he has served as a Montgomery County Paramedic Preceptor since 2012 and as a Reading Hospital School of Health Sciences Paramedic and Advanced EMT Preceptor.
For more than eleven years at Tri-Hampton Rescue Squad in southern Bucks County, Greg held a combined Paramedic, Clinical Care and CQI Coordinator, and Field Training Officer role. He was responsible for reviewing ALS and BLS patient care reports for protocol compliance and improving quality of care across the agency, and he served as a member of the Bucks County Rescue Task Force.
Greg has been a Life Member of the Hilltown Township Volunteer Fire Company since 1983, with more than four decades of continuous service to the community. He currently serves as Chief Engineer and Paramedic, with responsibilities spanning fire suppression, auto extrication, technical rescue, and EMS. He has held positions across the company including Vice President, Trustee, Assistant Chief Engineer, Battalion Chief, and EMS Operations and Occupational Health and Safety Officer. From 2020 through 2024, Greg served as an elected Township Commissioner for Hatfield Township, sitting on the Public Safety Committee and chairing the Public Works Committee, with oversight responsibility for police, fire, EMS, infrastructure, and an $8 million municipal budget for an 18,000-resident community.
Greg holds Pennsylvania, National Registry, and South Carolina Paramedic certifications. He is a Pennsylvania Vehicle Rescue Technician and Basic Rescue Practices Technician. His instructor and operational credentials include American Heart Association ACLS, PALS, and BLS Instructor and Provider certifications, the National EMS Management Association Basic EMS Field Training Officer Course, the U.S. Navy Chief Petty Officer Leadership Course, and Tactical Combat Casualty Care and Tactical Emergency Casualty Care courses through the Bucks County Public Safety Training Center. He holds Firefighter I and II, Fire Service Instructor I and II, Engine and Ladder Company Operations, Confined Space Rescue, Trench Rescue Officer I, II, and III, Hazardous Materials Operations, and FEMA NIMS IS-100, 200, 700, and 800 credentials.
Greg completed his paramedic training at the George E. Moerkirk Emergency Medicine Institute through Lehigh Valley Hospital and Lehigh Carbon Community College and has trained continuously at the Bucks County Public Safety Training Center since 1983.
Greg brings to Penn Tactical Solutions students the rare combination of senior military medical leadership across combat-capable operational environments, active 911 paramedic field experience, multi-decade volunteer fire and rescue command, formal field training officer credentialing, and elected public safety oversight. He teaches from the perspective of a provider who has cared for Sailors and Marines in the fleet and the field, run calls in the back of the rig, fought fire and worked rescue from the engine, and made public safety decisions from the commissioner's seat.
