To: 
From: "Vern Humphrey" 
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To: goffscalif{at}aol.com [mailto:goffscalif{at}aol.com]
>
> > Medics cannot legally be used as combatants -- although it is a
> rule easy to
> > break.
>
> A man in my former church had been a Navy medic serving with the
> Marines in
> 'Nam.  He carried an M-16 and used it - he chose not to be a
> casualty in a
> war where the enemy didn't give a flying flip whether an American was a
> non-combatant.
>
> He did, in the end, wind up a casualty, however - he stepped on a
> land mine.
>
Legally, medics bear arms for their own protection and for the protection
of their patients.  They could not be included in a reserve force as
combatants.  You could order the maintenance platoon to make a
counterattack, for example, and have a medic attached to them.  You could
not order the medical platoon to attack.


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