Meet The Medical Emergency Response Team | Forces TV

The Medical Emergency Response Team, known as the MERT, has saved countless lives in Helmand throughout the Afghan conflict. The teamwork out of a Chinook helicopter which is specially kitted out as a flying Emergency Room. But as ISAF troops pull out of the country, and the Afghans take responsibility for their own casualties, the job has become much quieter.
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[@stevedevine833]

In Canada nursing staff are officers why not in the uk

[@ella7493]

Steve Devine you have to go to Sandhurst to become an officer

[@riancleary9111]

Some nursing staff are soldiers and some are officers

[@jackakers8989]

Same goes in Australia, nurses are commissioned.

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Going to answer this one for you, many years later. It is to do with pay equivalency. The armed forces need to pay similar or higher than what the average nurse would get in the civilian line. In the UK, Nurses are given the rank of Corporal to match the average NHS nurse wage.