text: Chapter 3
  3-36. Retained personnel under the GPW must receive GPW protections from the time they fall into the
  power of the enemy until their final release and repatriation.
  3-37. Retained personnel must, at a minimum, be provided the same humanitarian care, respect, and
  treatment as afforded POWs by the GPW. Retained personnel are subject to the same disciplinary
  proceedings as POWs.
  RETAINED MEDICAL PERSONNEL
  3-38. The following rules apply to retained medical personnel (GWS art. 28; GPW art. 33):
  * They shall continue to exercise their medical activities for the benefit of POWs, preferably of their
  own armed forces.
  * They shall be authorized and afforded necessary transportation to make periodic visits to POWs
  and retained persons in labor detachments or hospitals outside the camp.
  * Retained medical personnel shall perform their medical duties in accordance with their
  professional ethics. This occurs under the control of the detaining power’s competent service,
  however, and within the scope of its military laws and regulations. The detaining power retains its
  responsibility for the health of those in its custody.
  * The senior retained medical officer in each camp is responsible for everything connected with the
  activities of retained medical personnel.
  * Retained medical personnel may not be compelled to carry out work other than their medical
  duties.
  * They may propose that POWs or retained persons be examined by Mixed Medical Commissions
  with a view toward being repatriated or accommodated in a neutral country and an entitlement to
  attend examinations conducted by Mixed Medical Commissions.
  * If their retention is not indispensable to provide for the health of POWs during hostilities, retained
  medical personnel are to be returned to the party to the conflict to whom they belong, as soon as
  the road is open for their return and military requirements permit. Upon their departure, they have
  the right to take their personal property, including medical instruments, with them.
  RETAINED MILITARY CHAPLAINS
  3-39. POWs may be ministered to by retained military chaplains. Retained military chaplains shall be
  allocated to camps and labor detachments containing POWs belonging to the same force, speak the same
  language, and practice the same religion.
  3-40. The rights and privileges of retained military chaplains are similar to those of retained medical
  personnel; for example, retained military chaplains also have the right deal with camp authorities on all
  questions related to their duties (GWS art. 28; GPW arts. 33, 35). Subject to camp censorship policies, they
  are free to write on matters concerning their religious duties to recognized international religious
  organizations and religious authorities of their faith in the country of detention. This correspondence is
  subject to standard security safeguards, including censorship of outgoing and incoming correspondence (see
  DOD Law of War Manual, 7.9.5.4).
  3-41. POWs who are ministers of religion, without having officiated as military chaplains to their own forces,
  may minister freely to members of their community. Those who are recognized to act in the capacity of a
  chaplain should be treated as such, and may not be required to do other work. (GWS art. 28; GPW arts.
  33, 36).
  3-42. Under Article 37 of the GPW, if no retained military chaplain or POW minister of the appropriate faith
  is available, one of a similar denomination or a qualified layperson may be appointed at the request of the
  POWs if it is done with the approval of the detaining authority.
  PERSONS NOT ENTITLED TO PRISONER OF WAR STATUS
  3-43. Unprivileged belligerents, as described in Chapter 1, including persons engaged in private acts of
  hostility and members of non-State armed groups who fail to meet the requirements of POW status, are not