[SG] Adrian's Medics

> Adrian wrote:

Your medic unit (the 2 troopers) have to move to within unit coherency of the
unit with injured troopers, or that unit has to move within unit coherency of
the medics. The actual reorg action has to be spent by the unit with the
wounded, but if a medic team is within coherency, their bonus gets added. In
effect, they join the unit very briefly, just for the purposes of that check.
Then, they can both go their separate ways. The medic team CAN'T take the
reorganize action on behalf of the larger unit.

[Tomb] Why not? I'd only let it treat the wounded (not do other re-org
stuff). Our medics seemed willing to be treating wounded while the rest of us
were fighting!

[Tomb] And why isn't this up on House Rules at www.stargrunt.ca? I hear
if you submit it, they'll get it up pretty quick. The webmaster
especially is supposed to be pretty quick. :-P

[Tomb] And more generally, this plus some other thinking the other day
brought up a point: Do modern medics travel armed? Does the Geneva Convention
not restrict the arms medics may bear? (It does IIRC restrict the role they
can play). And if there is a weapons stricture, is it followed in standard
infantry formations and in spec ops formations? (In our infantry unit, I don't
recall the medics being armed for the excercises, but there weren't many of
them so I may misrecall).

[Tomb] And more generally, this plus some other thinking the other day
brought up a point: Do modern medics travel armed? Does the Geneva Convention
not restrict the arms medics may bear? (It does IIRC restrict the role they
can play).

Never read Geneva conventions but I do know that some special forces, at
least, have guys who wear the regular uniform, carry the regular weapons,
don't get special treatment, but have medic training.

well, way back in the 1960s in EUROPE and elswhere US ARMY medics had
either a .45 pistol or an M-14 SLR with a bayonet.  armbands too.

in the	RVN medics, where i was, went  armed   with .45 pistol as the
official weapon along with a monster field amputation/etc knife that was
heavy enough to use as a short, heavy machete.

any other knives and the M-16 rifle were toted by Docs who knew  the
score in the  bush-they and their patients  were not only fair targets,
but, very often  the priority target  of the VC/NVA in a firefight.

and that when the crap hit the fan, should Doc and the wounded need
protection from  the enemy- Doc knew he  was it unless some  grunt saw
what was going on and intervened.

DAWGIE