Spartan Medical Corps or Spartan Specialists Corps?

[costumer99]

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[Necrogenesis]

If the Spartans are analagous to Special Forces troops (as are the ODSTs) there would likely be no medics. Special Forces units usually operate in very small units with no dedicated medic. Instead, they all receive "combat lifesaver" training well above and beyond the first aid training which typical soldiers get.

We sure as hell roll with a dedicated medic, the MOS is 18D, they go through months of field surgery training that normally includes a residency in a major hospital's ER ward. All SOF operatives undertake a secondary skill; mine is medicine, and our team is obsessed with the medical sub type. If it were up to me all special operatives would be certified EMT intermediate at the least, even our 18Bravo kill guys. The 'combat lifesaver' program is for normies, the intermediate normie medical program and noob Spec ops training is Ranger Responder. I did Ranger Responder my first weeks at Bragg as a noob paratrooper with the 307th (a combat engineer group that is now disbanded) right before the war; as you may know combat engineers are designed to add to the body count (especially Sapper/Ranger) it is one of their primary objectives, however, no commander out there wants to see their ranks dwindle needlessly.

If the Spartans are truly analogous to Special Forces, then they would probably take the best and brightest to be their field surgeons (it is the hardest track to complete at JFK special warfare school), and on top of that they would load them up with neurological enhancements and a medical AI. I apologize if this response seems harsh but it is very near and dear to me; my grandfather was a special operations medic during the European theater in WWII and i am most proud to follow in his footprints...