What is Combat medic?
A '''combat medic''' is someone in the [[military]] who has medical training. Their job is to heal sick or injured [[Soldier|soldiers]] on the [[Battle|battlefield]]. Medics are protected by the [[Geneva Conventions]]. This means that anyone who purposefully attacks or kills a medic clearly wearing medical clothing and has no weapon in their hand commits a [[war crime]]. Even though it is a war crime, some soldiers will still attack medics. An example of this is the [[Empire of Japan|Japanese military]] during [[World War II]], when officers would pay soldiers extra money for killing medics. For this reason, most medics carry a [[pistol]] or a [[carbine]] just in case they need to protect themselves and the soldiers they are treating. {{military-stub}} [[Category:Emergency medicine]] [[Category:Military occupations]]