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Roadkill · 07-28-2003, 10:41 PM

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"Since 1940, the US has required its medical personnel to be armed. The medics in every unit in which I served certainly were armed, and did their qualification firings with the rest of us. There are repetitive tales from WWII, Korea, and Viet-Nam of medical personnel fighting to preserve the lives of their patients"

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"During medical training, army medics received training in the use of the carbine and .45 pistol since some medics went to the Pacific war in which the Japanese had not signed the Geneva convention. Some medics in the ETO carried which were needed on certain occasions. Donald Ratliff, recalled how his 75th Division medics once captured a German in Vielsalm, Belgium. "One night in Vielsalm, Belgium, we went into a house to set up a battalion aid station. One of the men opened a closet door and a German soldier was sitting on the floor. He quickly surrendered when one of the men showed a .45 pistol". Although medics in the ETO were not armed, many medics carried pistols for self protection."

rk

07-28-2003, 10:41 PM	#10
Roadkill User Join Date: Jun 2002 Posts: 1,634 Thanks: 1 Thanked 28 Times in 17 Posts	http://www.ku.edu/~ibetext/korean-wa.../msg00050.html "Since 1940, the US has required its medical personnel to be armed. The medics in every unit in which I served certainly were armed, and did their qualification firings with the rest of us. There are repetitive tales from WWII, Korea, and Viet-Nam of medical personnel fighting to preserve the lives of their patients" http://users.skynet.be/bulgecriba/medics.html "During medical training, army medics received training in the use of the carbine and .45 pistol since some medics went to the Pacific war in which the Japanese had not signed the Geneva convention. Some medics in the ETO carried which were needed on certain occasions. Donald Ratliff, recalled how his 75th Division medics once captured a German in Vielsalm, Belgium. "One night in Vielsalm, Belgium, we went into a house to set up a battalion aid station. One of the men opened a closet door and a German soldier was sitting on the floor. He quickly surrendered when one of the men showed a .45 pistol". Although medics in the ETO were not armed, many medics carried pistols for self protection." rk