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This article discusses the standard equipment of a combat medic. Combat Medics must put themselves in greater harm than many other roles on the battlefield. In the type of asymmetric warfare which typifies modern conflicts, the enemy often has no respect for the laws of war and may in fact actively target medics (in addition to officers and radio operators), for the significant value they have in keeping the unit combat-effective. Thus, in most modern forces, medics are armed and do not wear large identifying red cross insignia. A rifle or carbine is standard, often augmented with a sidearm because the medic may have to pass his rifle off to his patient or fellow warfighter in order to treat the wounded. ==Arms and insignia== There is actually no requirement to wear identifying insignia or to be unarmed. Geneva Conventions require that Medics use weapons to defend themselves or their patients. To understand this, one must know that litter-bearers fall under the same protection, but are not required to be marked or unarmed. Chaplains can also carry weapons to defend themselves. In Chapter II of the Geneva Convention of 1929 Article 8 states: A sanitary formation (medical) or establishment shall not be deprived of the protection of Article 6 by the fact: # that the personnel of the formation or establishment is armed and uses their arms in self-defense or defense of wounded and sick personnel # that in the absence of armed hospital attendants the formation is guarded by an armed detachment or by sentinels # that hand firearms or ammunition taken from the wounded and sick and not yet turned over to the proper authorities are found in the formation or establishment; # that there is found in the formation or establishment personnel or materiel of the veterinary service which does not integrally belong to it The Combat Medic is commonly referred to as "Doc." Within a combat unit, they function as a member of an infantry platoon up until the point that one of their comrades is wounded. Therefore, the Medic carries basically what a Rifleman or any other soldier carries. His/ Her Basic Equipment is usually: * An M4 rifle and/or a M9 pistol. * A MOLLE Vest with a full "combat load," being (most often) 210 rounds for the M-4/M-16 rifle. * An IBA or Interceptor Body Armor, now being phased out in favor for the newer IOTV; * The Army Combat Uniform; * An ACH, or Advanced Combat Helmet. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Equipment of a combat medic」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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