I have a somewhat niche question about PMC's and medical care.
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If you are an enlisted soldier fighting officially for a government and get wounded in combat/fall seriously ill, they evacuate you to some field hospital manned by enlisted doctors who patch you up enough for you to make it back home for even better treatment, right?
But if you're a PMC and your company got hired to fight somewhere where the last hospital was bombed 25 years ago and you need urgent medical care, what do they do? Put you on a plane to your home country with a sucking chest wound with a band-aid put over it? Put you on a truck and drive you 300 miles to the city of Backwanda where you get operated on by doctor Ndugu who's "university" had electricity 10% of the time during his stay there?
What I'm getting at is that I found no mention anywhere on the Internet of private military companies hiring physicians and such a thing as a PMC field hospital ever existing and that makes no sense to me. I know that these days contractors are usually supplementing the forces of civilized countries intervening somewhere, fight alongside regular troops and have access to their logistics, but what if they don't? There should be some PMC somewhere with doctors on their employee roster for such an occasion, right?
Yes, I am nearing graduating med school and have a silly dream of spending my life living a mercenary version of M*A*S*H, in case that wasn't obvious.
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