Medics/genveaconvenction

[TheAllMihtyOne]

i wonder dosent the geneveaconenction say that its not allowed to shoot redcross workers /medics/ and other things white a big red cross on a white background. but in most games medics is all so killed. isnt this a bit ilegal?

[vengefulnoob]

yes, but in practice no one cares: in ww2 the americans thought not giving combat medics guns meant the enemy saw them as non combattants, but they were still killed

Nowadays every squad has one trooper with first aid, but he's still essentially a soldier, like the project reality medic. Then if ur wounded, ur dragged by them back to a professional platoon medic back to a hospital

[TheAllMihtyOne]

ok killing medics no one cares about but no one can hardly miss if a hospital got bombed, that must have a bigger response.

[vengefulnoob]

in the end many wounded will be killed, yes the destruction of hospitals occurs but it happens less often and though there is an outcry, often countries see the wounded enemy as reinforcements to be recirculated into service: winston Churchill said that "a POW is a man who tries to kill you and fails then begs for forgivness."

It is almost inevitable that wounded, those tending for the wounded and civilians will die in war, it's just a fact in war. 

[TheAllMihtyOne]

hmm this feels like a dead end i surrender my arguments about the medics and hospitals. but i'm sure the conention say ur not allowed to shoot at people parachuting from a crashing plane, in that case i think its better to try and capture them when they get down any way cuse pilots are not growing on trees and you might be anble to exstandge(<- swap or some thing) against another prisoner. thats what i would have done any way.

[vengefulnoob]

nice to see an honourable soldier...

[AnEvilGuy]

There was plenty of times when the Geneva convention was thrown away WWII-

Mostly by the Russians and the die hard Nazi's (SS battalions and such)
There were also some British, Canadian, Polish, and American atrocities...

"but history is written by the victorious" -Halftrack
(don't want to be accused of plagiarizing)

[vengefulnoob]

"war is delightful to those who have never experienced it"

[TheAllMihtyOne]

"war is delightful to those who have never experienced it"

Amen to that

[vengefulnoob]

Erasmus I think

[Escforreality]

"but history is written by the victorious" -Halftrack

Haha Halftrack did not come up with that, LOL! Not sure who did though, but it's pretty famous.

[AnEvilGuy]

"but history is written by the victorious" -Halftrack

Haha Halftrack did not come up with that, LOL! Not sure who did though, but it's pretty famous.

Well... that's when I first heard it... from him.

[Lukin]

iI think that medical perosnall must be a part of platoon in the game! Or create a real medical CAR!! That will be awesome!!

[HostileAmerican]

I am a Corpsman, (naval medic) and i deploy with the Marines, i am a non-combatant, however, i have the right to defend my self and my patient, and i can choose to waver my non-combatant status to become a combatant corpsman, and most of us are/do.

[WelshManDan]

"but history is written by the victorious" -Halftrack

It was actually the best Politician ever, Winston Churchill.