Well Stefan (POLIZEI) was a medic for two years, and I like him
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S. Korean troops of the "Zaitun" Division in Arbil, Iraq
"The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience.
Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.. We know more about
war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living."
- General Omar N. Bradley
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They're defenetly vital for the troops moral, knowing to have that at least there will be someone "near" to help you if something goes wrong.
Also they are very if not the most brave ones IMO.
A normal soldier has a Gun in a fight, which gives him at least some kind of selfe defence posibility.
A Medic on the other side has to rely 100% on his mates in combat, that they will protect him (when he is doing his job)
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This was written on the back of a C-rat box in Vietnam, and although it is about a Navy Corpsman , it could have been about any medic any war.
This pretty much sums it up:
He waits, silent
clutching his Unit One
Wondering about this time
A flash as a 'copter
drops a flare
And midnight turns to noon
And hell reaches them all
racing forward, past sanity
Insanity calls pushing him forward
Regardless of death
to a fallen friend
Bullets falling
that scream Die
falling inches away
Working his best
Moving up,
blood racing in his veins
and dropping in a wound
Made hours ago
He thinks of himself
His sergeant says stop
but he remembers a Creed
Taken years ago
And again moves forward
into hell blood and gun grease
the sound of death
The words of life
his morphine spent
And his plasma used
Nothing left
but a Creed sounds
in his ears
above 'copters and total hell
Up to a fallen friend
Who looks up to a face of Christ
and smiles
Bullets shatter the night
Somewhere a mother
perhaps a wife
Thank God for a life
She says a prayer for
an unknown person
who saved his life.
Yes somewhere, some person
a lone person
Looks upon a lifeless body
Running faster to a calling
Remembering a Creed
Taken years ago
He halts to gaze upon
A corpsman lying still.
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"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
-Mohammad Khatami
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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I see. I had thought you served in Iran...
Good luck to you, brother.
"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
-Mohammad Khatami
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
-Mohammad Khatami
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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No, Kaveh jan. I want to pursue a career in the Armed Forces.
"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
-Mohammad Khatami
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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Thank you, Kaveh jan. Good luck and Godspeed to you, as well!
"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"If the invaders reach Iran, the country will turn into a burning hell for them."
-Mohammad Khatami
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents.”
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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"We will write our own military manuals, which the Americans, British, and French can study in their staff colleges."
-Colonel Behrouz Soleimani, Deputy Commander of the Iranian 21st Infantry Division, following the Liberation of Khorramshahr
"The baseless claim made us laugh. We do not use laptops to keep our classified documents."
-Foreign Ministry spokesman Hamid Reza Asefi, on American claims that an Iranian laptop they had captured contained evidence that Iran was producing a nuclear warhead
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You want my honest opinion: I have the highest respect for battle Engineers but somehow can't find any for medics. I've always found it strange that injured soldiers should be awarded medals. I don't why I carry this ridiculous notion. It's like as though to be wounded in battle is somethng awful, loathesome; death being the much preferable. A sort of medieval mentality.
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Impossible is not French- Napoleon
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S. Korean troops of the "Zaitun" Division in Arbil, Iraq 
