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Originally Posted by Stealhead
...but there is still a big difference between an infantryman or a combat engineer who are in constant combat and it is their profession and another military member whose primary profession is not combat related.
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Afghanistan is a little different. There's a female Education and Training Services officer (effectively a teacher) who had to man the walls and kill the enemy when the compound she was working in came under attack over a protracted period. Her primary trade wasn't combat, but she'd been trained to react properly.
There's no such thing as a non-combatant member of the Army any more, except perhaps padres and medics. Even the medics come under attack - just look at the citations for the number of MCs won by army and navy medics over the last few years...