War, traditionally cruel, on the battlefield will have to face life and death. But on the battlefield, there is a soldier is both sides of the soldiers can not shoot, or in the war victory, is to be on the court martial to accept the trial. This soldier is the medic, the white angel of the war, the person who saves lives and helps the wounded.
In the Geneva Conventions, it is clearly stipulated that combatants on both sides cannot fire on each other's medical personnel. This makes them the safest soldiers on the battlefield. But in a war of blood and fire, there are countries that don't abide by this rule. For example, in World War II, the crazy Japanese soldiers never obeyed this rule, and they thought that medics were not only saving lives, but also had military training, and they were elite soldiers when they took up arms. Originally, U.S. medics did not carry guns, but when they came to the Pacific theater and encountered the ferocious Japanese army, they began to be equipped with weapons.
During the war, many of the opposing sides were just abiding by the convention on the surface, but in reality they didn't care about the safety of the medics, and even because of the medics' special dress, sometimes the medics became the target of the enemy's strikes. During the Second World War, the European battlefield appeared to uphold the convention, there were Allied pilots are not allowed to attack the German battlefield ambulance order issued, is the heartless German fascist, also rescued the Allied paratroopers wounded.
Now in the war, the role of the medics is still irreplaceable, now the U.S. Army combatants, still equipped with one to two medics to cooperate in the war, because of the experience of a variety of wars, although the medics are protected by the Geneva Conventions, but the battlefield guns and artillery without eyes, in fact, the safety of the medics can not be very good guarantee. Now their dress code has no difference with soldiers.