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Here're the first attempts with Unit Data for unittext.txt

Combat Medics

Combat medics (also known as medics) are military personnel who have been trained for providing first aid and frontline trauma care on the battlefield. They are also responsible for providing continuing medical care in the absence of a readily available physician, including care for disease and battle injury. Combat medics are normally co-located with the combat troops they serve in order to easily move with the troops and monitor ongoing health.

During WW II most medical personnel wore a distinguishing red cross, to denote their protection as noncombatants under the Geneva Convention. Already then many countries provided their medics with side arms or rifles to protect themselves.


Field Dressing Station <- Battalion Aid Station

Should have really named this within the US naming convention; Battalion Aid Station, as that is a very good descriptive name.

The Battalion Aid Station is a medical section within a battalion's support company. As such, it is the forward-most medically-staffed treatment location and is designed for the immediate treatment of battlefield casualties, who are then transported to field hospitals and other larger medical units further to the rear.

The unit has traditionally been staffed by the unit's Medical Officer, two Medical NCOs, and a small number of medical orderlies. Additionally, units employed stretcher bearers and drivers for the evacuation of battlefield casualties.

Battalion Aid Stations are not generally equipped to provide surgical treatment or long term care.

According to the Geneva Convention, military medical facilities, equipment and personnel are non-combatants and may not be attacked as long as they remain in a non combatant role. Medical personnel are allowed weapons for the purpose of self- and patient-defense.


Field Hospital


A field hospital is a large Regimental or Divisional mobile medical unit facility behind the front lines that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. A field hospital would usually be located just outside of the range of enemy artillery and often near transportation facilities (e.g., a railway). The unit receives battlefield casualties from battalion aid stations located in the combat zone.

Casualties that cannot be adequately treated there are stabilized before being transported to a military hospital.

According to the Geneva Convention, military medical facilities, equipment and personnel are non-combatants and may not be attacked as long as they remain in a non combatant role. Medical personnel are allowed weapons for the purpose of self- and patient-defense.


Hospital (as Field Hospital, but fixed to a building)

A field hospital is a large Regimental or Divisional mobile medical unit facility behind the front lines that that temporarily takes care of casualties on-site before they can be safely transported to more permanent hospital facilities. A field hospital would usually be located just outside of the range of enemy artillery and often near transportation facilities (e.g., a railway). The unit receives battlefield casualties from battalion aid stations located in the combat zone.

Casualties that cannot be adequately treated there are stabilized before being transported to a military hospital.

According to the Geneva Convention, military medical facilities, equipment and personnel are non-combatants and may not be attacked as long as they remain in a non combatant role. Medical personnel are allowed weapons for the purpose of self- and patient-defense.

In JTCS, a Hospital Unit is considered fixed, and cannot be transported. It should be placed to a building at a suitable location by scenario designer.