Yes. Chaplains, medics, and doctors are non-combatants and cannot bear arms. My armored cavalry squadron's chief doc (actually a PA) was actually a conscientious objector, but one of the finest soldiers I ever knew. Even though he was a PA instead of an MD, I'd have trusted him to perform major surgery on me.Shootstir wrote:Has it always been policy for chaplains?
In the Bureau of Prisons, chaplains, psychologists, and MDs are prohibited from carrying weapons, which irritates quite a few of them. They were never required to qualify with firearms, but most did anyway. A few years back they actually stopped letting them shoot at qualification.
Of course, that eliminated their authority to carry under LEOSA, so it was an extra aggravation.