Should I Go Combat Medic or Military Police?

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Question by Wooord!: Should I go combat medic or military police?
Currently I am going to school, but once I have around 30 college credits I am thinking of joining the Army Reserve. I am having trouble figuring out what MOS I should choose. I want to perform combat duties, but I’m also looking to get involved in physical therapy or sports medicine when I’m done with school, so I figured 68W (combat medic) would be the way to go. What do combat medics do during combat? Are they mostly doing medical stuff or are they just another Infantryman until someone’s hurt? I do want to do some medical, but I don’t want that to be the ONLY thing. I want to be right there alongside the guys.

Would military police be a better choice for me?

I am also planning on getting Airborne school into my contract.

Best answer:

Answer by WildRockMan
A combat medic is a trained soldier who is responsible for providing first aid and frontline trauma care on the battlefield. Also responsible for providing continuing medical care in the absence of a readily available physician, including care for disease and non battle injury. Combat medics are normally co-located with the combat troops they serve in order to easily move with the troops and monitor ongoing health.

Combat medics are officially known by a variety of names. In the United States Army, medics have often been called 68Ws since December of 2005. In the United States Navy, they are known as Corpsmen and fill the combat medic role of the United States Marine Corps, which does not have its own medical personnel. Combat Medical Technicians (CMTs) in the British Army are members of the Royal Army Medical Corps.

In most armies, medics wear specific insignia, with a prominent Red Cross on a white background. Islamic countries use a red crescent instead while Israeli medics wear the Magen David Adom (a red star of David on a white background). These symbols signify to enemy soldiers that the medic is a noncombatant, providing medical care. For many years, most medics have carried at least a side arm like the handgun and knife (and now, frequently a rifle, carbine or submachine gun), to be used as a defensive weapon. Medical personnel may be armed, but may only use their weapons to protect themselves or the wounded and sick in their care. If they use their arms offensively (i.e. attacking or assaulting), or carry arms that qualify as offensive (such as a sniper rifle, machine gun or grenade launcher), they then sacrifice their protection under the Geneva Conventions. Generally, a medic holding his/her weapon is considered to be an armed, military threat. According to the Geneva Convention, knowingly firing at a medic wearing clear insignia is a war crime.

Answer by Justin H
As a Marine I have been apart of the casulty evacuation mission. I have worked alongside corpsman (medics) in the heat of battle and know of one who pulled three soldiers out of a mine field. Medics will be right there in combat during war and also in the hospital fixing people. The job requrires both and if you pick that MOS you will do both.

No one likes the MP. They are viewed as buddy *uckers because they have to put their fellow soldiers behind bars.

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