Military Training Toward a Professional Licence — Including 68W Straight to Nursing Assistant
The professional regulation office evaluates military education, training and credentials toward licensure, and offers expedited and temporary licences to veterans, active-duty members and their spouses. One route is written into statute: a combat medic with a national EMT registration can be licensed as a nursing assistant.
Verified August 22, 2026
What this benefit is
The professional regulation office evaluates military education, training and credentials toward licensure, and offers expedited and temporary licences to veterans, active-duty members and their spouses. One route is written into statute: a combat medic with a national EMT registration can be licensed as a nursing assistant.
What it's worth: Military training credited toward licensure; expedited and temporary licences; a statutory 68W route to nursing assistant
- The general route is case by case, on the documentation you submit, rather than a fixed schedule of equivalences.
- The expedited affidavit route reaches active-duty members, veterans within two years of discharge, and active-duty spouses who hold a valid licence in another state.
Who is entitled to it
- You served in the armed forces.
- You are in this state.
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How to claim it
- 1Find your profession in the office's directory and use the contact address listed there to submit documentation of military training, education and experience — that is the route the office publishes for having service credited.
- 2If you hold a valid licence in another state and are on active duty, within two years of discharge, or the spouse of an active-duty member, download the affidavit, complete it and attach it to your licence application through the online platform. That is what triggers the expedited handling.
- 3If you were a 68W combat medic or equivalent and hold a National Registry EMT certification, ask the board about licensure as a nursing assistant under 26 V.S.A. § 1643 by name — it is a statutory route, not a discretionary one.
- 4A spouse who left employment to accompany a member transferred here has a separate expediting route; say that in the application rather than relying on the general military language.
- 5Ask the office in writing whether a fee waiver is available for your application. The office has been described as waiving application fees for qualifying military members and spouses on request, but no page read this session states it, so treat it as a question to put rather than a right to assert.
- Form
- Licence application with the military affidavit attached
- File with
- The Office of Professional Regulation, through its online licensing platform
- Documents you will need
- dd214
- At each renewal
- Claimed again whenever the underlying licence or registration renews.
Sources
- authority · published policySecretary of State, Office of Professional Regulation — Veterans, Active-Duty Service Members, and Active-Duty Spouses
Why only one source type: The regulating office's own page states the expedited and temporary licensure routes, the two-year post-discharge window, the spouse route and the statutory nursing assistant provision. The legislature's statute server refused connections throughout this session, so 26 V.S.A. § 1643 could not be read in its own text.
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