Sentences with phrase «war as a medic»

The final playable character Anna, finds her way to the frontline of the war as a medic.

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Born on a cotton farm in southern Mississippi, Campbell served as an army medic in the South Pacific during World War II.

As a former medic in the Vietnam War, his instincts kicked in.

Mel Gibson's bloody World War II drama «Hacksaw Ridge» scored with critics and audiences in Venice, who praised Andrew Garfield's performance as a Pacifist medic trying to save his fellow soldiers on the battlefield; he landed Critics Choice, Golden Globe SAG, and BAFTA nominations.

As someone who's long had an armchair historian's interest in World War II, I was intrigued by Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector who nonetheless wanted to serve his country as a mediAs someone who's long had an armchair historian's interest in World War II, I was intrigued by Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a conscientious objector who nonetheless wanted to serve his country as a medias a medic.

Garfield, who received a nod for his performance as a US army medic in Mel Gibson's war drama, will go up against Gosling and Casey Affleck, nominated for Manchester By The Sea, as well as Denzel Washington, who is recommended for Fences, and Viggo Mortensen, proposed for Captain Fantastic.

Nevertheless, Desmond was commissioned as a medic with the 307th Infantry with whom he would more than prove his mettle on the island of Okinawa in the bloodiest battle of World War II.

In a year largely free of controversy, the biggest complaints will likely be directed at the love for Hacksaw Ridge, Mel Gibson's searing war film that dramatizes the battle of Okinawa and the stirring life of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield), a pacifist who nonetheless served in the army as a combat medic and won the Medal of Honor for his heroics on the battlefield.

Lew Ayres, who starred in the classic 1931 anti-war film (and Best Picture Academy Award winner), «All Quiet on the Western Front,» was so affected by that movie, he became a conscientious objector and served as a medic in World War II (and was later to earn a Best Actor nomination for «Johnny Belinda»).

«Hacksaw Ridge,» Mel Gibson's latest high - minded cinematic massacre, tells the story of Desmond T. Doss, a God - fearing American pacifist who served as a combat medic during World War II and personally carried 75 wounded soldiers from the Battle of...

He even served as a medic in the Confederate army during the Civil War, but was disheartened to learn how the sons of large plantation owners had been exempted from the military draft.

SYNOPSIS: The World War II movie Hacksaw Ridge, which tells the story of a conscientious objector, Desmond Doss, who achieved heroic feats on the battlefield as a medic despite not carrying a -LSB-...]

Prior to entering private practice psychology, Dr. Bracy trained and served as a U.S. Army combat medic and surgical technician stationed in Germany during the Vietnam war, and worked as a cardiovascular perfusionist for 17 years.

The potential supply of medical professionals to meet this demand was seen during World War II, when Dr. Eugene Stead realized that an intermediate role might be possible through employment of soldiers who had gone through a 2 - year medical training program to become medics in combat.1 By the end of the Vietnam War, a large number of medical corpsmen had returned to the United States, providing a large pool of medically inclined, highly trained individuals without the ability to practice as physicians.

- the 18 returning classes were chosen by seeing which popular classes would fit with the game - they also wanted to include classes to cover roles that the roster was lacked - the Pugilist class was added because the first group of classes selected did not include any with bashing and binding attacks - War Magus was added because the Medic was the only healer class in the roster at that point - they couldn't simply include all popular classes as that would have skewed the balance of the game - as for the Hero class, they with balanced offensive and defensive capabilities, but this made things to similar to other classes - this was rectified by adding after - images and other skills with good synergy - when an after - image appears, it does the same skills as the Hero, except on the following turn - it becomes possible for skills that usually can not be used multiple times in a row to be activated multiple turns in a row - it also means skills that only have an effect for one turn can be extended to two - after - images use not only the Hero's own class skills, but also their subclass skills - if the subclass is an Imperial, the Drive skill can be used multiple times in a row - when using Hero as a subclass to Nightseeker, the character can cover the Nightseeker's weaknesses of having low defense - after - images can also help increase the chances of inflicting status ailments - subclasses can be used to make up for weakness - Swordsman, a class that can learn speed and accuracy boosting skills, would be a good subclass for the Gunner - Reaper as a subclass for War Magus would allow that character to use the scythe's skills to inflict status ailments - the skill tree is slowly unlocked as a character grows - there are more skills that make jobs» individual styles stand out more, or expand the player's choices - the skill tree is also made so that there are less requirements to learn specific skills as compared to 5 - this makes it easier for players to get the skill they want without spending large numbers of skill points on lower skills - it's now easier to put points into skills, which makes re-specing easier - the team faced difficulty in balancing classes that were never meant to be alongside each other - they are doing their best to ensure that they keep the individual classes» identities intact

In contrast to most other games set in world wars, your objective in WWIM is not to take lives but to save them: as a field medic, your goal is to save as many Allied soldiers as you can from...

Check out this trailer to learn more about Thanos and the Avengers: Infinity War content, as told by a S.H.I.E.L.D. Medic:

Many of the artists here would have depended on such things in their roles as soldiers, medics or official war artists.

He had initially trained as a doctor, and served as a medic during the Second World War, but took up art after being captured in Tunisia in 1943 and interned in Hereford, Texas.

The accompanying monograph contains a conversation between the artist and his longtime colleague Lewis Baltz that relates the Landscapes for the Homeless imagery to Hernandez's two - year tour as a medic in the Vietnam War and the dystopic movie Blade Runner.