This is the regulation for having gotten the CO status which states the the first non combat duty assignment will be in the medical corp, dealing with the results of the fighting. Of course, as we have all seen in recent years, assignment to a non combat force does NOT mean a person is safe and will not be killed, maimed, wounded, blinded, crippled, or suffer the long term effects of PTSD as a result.

The assignment to medical duty specifically does NOT exclude the person from the undefined "hazardous duties" of the medical corp, which could easily include flying into a fire fight in a helicopter being shot at with RPGs or ambulance duty through streets lined with IEDs exploding all around.

The old school house threat of "this will go on your permanent record" is used here as a further deterrent, to threaten the enlistee with shunning and ostracization from the unit, with CO documents in the "Military Personnel Records Jacket" (MPRJ), which no small threat.