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Originally Posted by Lt.Fillipidis
Actually, the medics were a preffered target in the war since it was calculated that a man killing a medic would subsequently kill 10 more soldiers (if my memory serves me well). I cant remember where i learned about this or where the numbers are based on but i have the faint idea that these are the right numbers.
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If I recall correctly medics were not generally targeted during the two world wars. This is I believe mostly because the job of medics is to save lives, whichever side they might be on (The more live prisoners the better), so to kill a medic may be to kill yourself later on. During this period the Red Cross on their arms granted them technical immunity from harm and none were armed (another reason at least was that there were many medics who were pacifists but still wished to help the war effort and so volunteered to be medics).
The reason these days medics rarely go unarmed (and some go even more heavily armed than regular infantry) is because the Western world now rarely fights against uniformed opponents who at least pay lip service to the Geneva Convention and as such the Red Cross no longer affords any kind of protection, the Red Cross simply remains as a means of identification.
Quite sad really.
How was the Teledrama?