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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
You haven't actually been a Combat Medic or Corpsman, have you? I have, and I can tell you firsthand that we did. Unlike infantry, the role of a Medic isn't to close with and kill the enemy - they have a much different mission. But a Medic is armed so that they can defend themselves and their patient(s), and, when it comes time to, they use them.
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.
In my opinion, Id have to say, Medic, Commander, and ravager if your looking for and offensive paradigm, Defensive, saboteur, Synergist, and Medic, You can heal, while getting buffed, while de-buffing the enemy :D, They are my shifts
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.