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

前沿带为作业的人们所掌握——步枪兵、机枪兵、迫击炮兵、炮火校射兵、通讯兵，以兵。

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，陆军部不兵发放作战津贴（每月特加10美元），也不允许他们佩戴步兵荣誉证章。