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Medical units are deployed as part of a force package, based on the number and type of other forces deployed. They are not usually deployed in excess to handle to treat anticipated civilian casualties. Furthermore the Iraqi civilian hospital system, while dilapidated, was intact. Obviously, any sane person would rather be treated by US doctors and our medical systemn than their own. This tends to overload our care system regardless of casualties.
Once these civilians are in US care, they get treated the same as US personnel.
Frankly, I do not want to be the one to write SSG Schmidlap's wife and kids and tell them that their husband died because we had a bunch of enemy civilians with malnutrition in the beds, and no room for their husband/father/son.
The Geneva and Hague Conventions prescribe health care responsibilities for non-combatants, we are responsible for them.
Once combat is over, an assessment of the indig hospital and health care system is made, and the effort directed at getting the civilian care facilities back on line ASAP.
HTH.
TR
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De Oppresso Liber 01/20/2025
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Medical help for Iraqi's
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