To preserve their noncombatant status under the Geneva Convention, the War Department did not give medics combat pay (ten dollars extra a month) or the right to wear the combat Infantryman Badge.

为保持日内瓦公约规定的非战斗人员身份，不给救护兵发放作战津贴（每月特10美元），也不允许他们佩戴步兵荣誉。

The front line belong to the men who worked there—rifle-men and machine gunners, mortarman, forward artillery observers, communications men, and medics.

沿地带为作业于此地的人们所掌握——步枪兵、机枪兵、迫击炮兵、炮火校射兵、通讯兵，以及救护兵。