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Answer:According to the Geneva Convections and the US DoD Pamphlet of the Law of War. Your Medical Personnel that are exclusively engaged in the treatment of the wounded are considered retained personnel and are repatriated as soon as conditions and times are meet.
All military personnel, be they medic, chaplain, private, or general, can be considered POWs.
normally the lowest level that would have a medic attached would have been a platoon.
Daniel E. Evans has written: 'Doc: Platoon medic' -- subject(s): Medical care, Vietnam War, 1961-1975
Well, it DID come out. But only in the Campaign. The medic was probably considered too advantageous in early game and took it out of the scenarios and put it into the campaign.
Typically, when someone is talking about a combat medic, they are talking about a line medic. A line medic is attached to a unit both in combat and in a garrison environment. A line medic does many of the same things in garrison that he would do during a deployment. This could be running daily sick call or acting as a lifeguard during water PT. When that same unit deploys, the medic would still run sick call, but when the platoon goes out on a mission, the medic goes with them. If the unit is hit while on mission, the medic is in charge of everything from casualty triage (determining the order in which casualties should be treated) to the actual treatment of everything from amputations to breathing problems to bloody noses or twisted ankles. The combat medic is one of the most important people in the unit. It is important that he take his job very seriously so that the men in his unit know they can depend on him.
A Corpsman is a navy medic. Typically when somebody is talking about a combat medic, they mean a line medic, or a medic who actually goes into combat with a unit vs a medic who works in a hospital.
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This question is rather vague, but I'll answer it to the best of my ability. A medic who has recently graduated medic school (like the US Army Academy of Combat Medicine in Fort Sam Houston TX) is still called a medic. More experienced medics are usually called by the nickname 'Doc' after they've proved that they're proficient at medicine and considered a good soldier. There is a vague pecking order among medics in any given company or battalion. A company's most experienced medic is considered that company's senior medic and all the rest are junior medics. The senior medic in a company is usually a corporal or a sergeant. In a battalion there is usually a medic that works directly for the doctor or physician's assistant (referred to as a battalion surgeon) who usually holds the rank of staff sergeant or higher. This medic is referred to as the triage NCO. As I mentioned before, though, most medics in any context will just be called either Doc or their last name by the soldiers to which they are assigned.