"Do you also think that these medical units are overprotected?"


Uhhh..seriously? If you were a medic and had to extract some injured soldiers while taking fire, I don't think overprotected would would even enter your mind.

RPGs Armor piercing .50 cal IEDs there's some stOOpid weapons out there that can seriously ruin someone's day.

^ What he said

If you notice, all of these vehicles are UNarmed.

LOAC says: all Humanitarian/medical vehicles must be marked with a red cross, crecent, or star of david they can't have any weapons or armed personell onboard. they are non combatants.

All they got is armor and good intentions.

Actually, while the vehicles should not have mounted arms, medical personnel can be armed for self-defence pursuant to Article 22 of the First Geneva Convention:

Art. 22. The following conditions shall not be considered as depriving a medical unit or establishment of the protection guaranteed by Article 19:
(1) That the personnel of the unit or establishment are armed, and that they use the arms in their own defence, or in that of the wounded and sick in their charge.

That article doesn't come from the UCMJ. If any medical facility/historic monument or anything else of that matter has weapons at hand, it becomes a combatant area, which means that it is allowed to be fired on.

hqLTRL Sometimes I also see something like this, but earlier I didn`t pay much attention to this!...