The so called ‘heroes’, the cannon fodder grunts , wouldn’t be able to function without civilian support.
That support comes from technology and services , medical being one example.
The army medical corps in particular, is especially incompetent in providing those services . They basically admit it with the number of contractors they have to hire.
The A.F. actually wanted their docs to be doctors so there weren’t nearly as many civilian docs working with them.
In my case the contractors were about 30% of the specialized providers yet produced about 75 - 85% of the actual services.
So the army docs were no heroes at all. In fact they were rewarded with doing as little as they could get away with.