Press ESC to cancel. Skip to content Home Philosophy Is it a war crime to shoot a medic helicopter? Ben Davis September 28, Is it a war crime to shoot a medic helicopter? Is looting a war crime? Is looting a federal crime? For tactical reasons, there's no real point in shooting at medics either; in combat, a downed soldier remains down for the current battle with medical treatment and recovery occuring slowly over the days, weeks and even months that follow , and medics are also trained to treat the enemy as well as their own comrades if at all possible, provided that they aren't presenting a threat.
In fact, you usually want to leave medics alone since retrieving a fallen comrade usually requires the help of an additional person, so this puts at least one other potential enemy out of action, making the fight easier. But if you're in a Video Game , you can forget all about that, because videogame medics are magical. Unlike Real Life , a video game medic will magically heal critically wounded soldiers back to full combat effectiveness in a matter of seconds - and in many cases, reviving soldiers Back From the Dead isn't any more difficult.
This makes an enemy healer a primary target, because when left alone, they will ultimately start reviving and healing your enemies almost as fast as you can take them out ; enemies accompanied by healers effectively become Nigh Invulnerable so long as the healer is present, so if you want to have any hope of winning, you must Shoot The Medic First.
Just be prepared for an occasional Roaring Rampage of Revenge from the medic's True Companions , or that the boss may spontaneously Turn Red when he learns his healer has been taken out. When medics won't put up with getting attacked first and actually start fighting back , they become a Combat Medic.
Medic: Oh God, they're shooting medics too! Later in the story the Final Boss thinks he's invincible because his "Bytes" weird spellcasting turnip-things keep reviving him whenever he gets beat up. That the heroes would realize they just need to destroy the Bytes first apparently hadn't occurred to him. In this Concerned strip , Genre Blind Gordon Frohman believes he won't be shot at because he's a medic, due to the belief that he is protected by subsection B of the resolutions of the Geneva International Conference.
Of October. In Drowtales , the Sharen, who are being badly beaten in their war against the Sarghress, are getting more and more desperate as the war drags on and they lose more and more ground. They are beginning to use more dirty and underhanded methods in an attempt to gain as much an advantage as possible. One of their favourite ones is to open a gate to the demon realm, unleashing demons capable of killing and taking over any drow in the area. To counter these gates, the Sarghress employ sealers, whose job it is to locate these gates, close them, and then seal all the demons in the area.
To counter these , the Sharen set up snipers and traps to kill the Sealers fast and first. In Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth , Schweitzer cites this as the reason he never does anything to help the party. Well, except that one heal The Order of the Stick : Played with early on, when a monster tries to attack two characters They end up winning by attrition by healing each other until the monster gets bored and leaves.
A notable aversion during the second battle between Miko Miyazaki and the Order — while the comic itself skipped straight to the Order's defeat, Rich Burlew outlined one way the battle could've gone to prove it wasn't just a Diabolus ex Machina , and in this outline, Miko does not attack Durkon because he only provides healing to his other party members and does not attack her. In this case, she actually does follow so-called rules of war because Durkon is acting strictly in the capacity of being a traditional medic.
Julie told her group not to attack Kayla who is a healer and didn't directly attack Julie's group once in the whole battle. Naturally, by not attacking Kayla, the battle became harder and much longer. Schlock Mercenary : When the heroes discover that the planet-sized warship they've been fighting is not in fact a tank , but a healer , outright resurrecting dead Eldritch Abominations.
Ufu: I believe the correct war cry for this kind of fight is target the healer. Real Life. They didn't sign the Geneva Conventions until The Americans and British and Germans, in regards to each other, did not deliberately target enemy medics Erwin Rommel, Nazi Germany's famed "Desert Fox", once exploded at an Italian naval official who proudly told him that the navy had sneaked a load of gasoline across the Mediterranean by hiding it in a hospital ship.
Rommel was pissed, because he had been trying to convince his British enemies to stop bombing those hospital ships. In the Korean War, medics were often targeted first by the Chinese forces in what the U.
It was so bad that one veteran said that of the twelve medics that graduated in his class, only two came back. The VC's uncaring attitude towards noncombatants is why most medics were given shotguns for their own protection. Combat Medic indeed. Unfortunately, because of the Double Standard , female nurses were not allowed to carry guns even though they were put in the same dangerous situations. The VC often left their own wounded where they fell although obviously not always , since they knew their enemies had better health care and were obliged to take care of them if possible.
Instead, they would purposely wound soldiers, rather than kill them, and allow them to be extracted, since they knew that wounded soldiers took more resources to remove from the battlefield and treat than it took for dead soldiers to be declared MIA or recovered later and buried.
This is one of the reasons why the U. The Wilhelm Gustloff note that according to the article, it was not "legally" a hospital ship.
It remains to this day the largest loss of life on any single ship in history, dwarfing even RMS Titanic 's death toll. While not actually dealing with medics per se , recent studies suggest that some antibiotic-resistant microbial populations came about because some individuals with the resistance gene expended resources in order to protect non-resistant individuals.
The elementary school game Doctor Dodgeball. Instead of leaving the field when they're hit, players sit down until their team's designated "doctor" touches them to bring them back into the game. Not surprisingly, the "doctor" tends to run around with a whole team of decoys. Alternatively, both teams keep it a secret who their doctor is, and several other people intentionally run around towards players sitting down as sacrificial lambs and decoys to suck fire up while the doctor runs around and tags them.
Palestinian terrorist groups have been filmed note By the Israelis using UN ambulances to transport uninjured gunmen, rifles, and rocket launchers throughout the Gaza Strip. UN spokespersons have claimed the drivers were forced to assist the terrorists, but UN ambulance drivers are required to report all such violations immediately to their superiors, and the drivers of the videotaped ambulances did not.
Instead, the drivers insisted they were not coerced by terrorists in any way until after they were made aware of the existence of the videotape. Terrorists took it to a whole other level when the concept of "secondary" explosives was put into play. The first one blows up and causes the usual death and injury. Then the second one sits and waits until the rescuers show and blows them up.
IDF snipers target medics at the Gaza border protest of Furthermore, the IDF policy of "Shoot to Wound" complements the killing of medics by making medical staff more in demand. These cells are essential for an effective immune response. Without a lengthy discourse on immunology, let's summarize TH-2 cells as "command and control" for the rest of the immune response team. The infection usually starts off in macrophage variants such dendritic cells and successfully jumps to TH-2 cells. It also infects neurons.
We can predict which opportunists are likely to strike based on the cell count of T-helper cells, and these are the diseases that kill the patient. Attempted by an Iraqi sniper during combat operations in Iraq. The round hit the body armor of the Marine in question, saving his life. What's funny is that not only did the corpsman live through the event, he got back up, took cover behind his vehicle, returned fire , wounded the sniper in question, and then proceeded to treat the very person who just minutes ago tried to kill him.
The whole incident was recorded by the Sniper in question, and can be viewed here. Medics on the battlefield must render aid to those injured while exposing themselves to danger. AND an excellent medic. All medics get the same initial training where they will tell you that you are a combat medic. Being a combat medic is a challenging career field, but it helps if you have some basic tools going in to the job: 1- having the aptitude to remember lifesaving procedures, dosages, formulas, etc.
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