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and religious personnel. 243 States must notify other Parties to the 1949 Geneva Conventionsbefore actually employing such personnel. 2444.11.1 American National Red Cross. Under U.S. law, the American National Red Crossis a voluntary aid society authorized to support the U.S. armed forces in time of war. 245American National Red Cross personnel who support the U.S. armed forces in militaryoperations in this way are subject to the Uniform Code of Military Justice. 2464.12 STAFF OF A RECOGNIZED AID SOCIETY OF A NEUTRAL COUNTRYThe 1949 Geneva Conventions recognize that neutral States may lend their recognizedaid societies to a party to the conflict by placing those personnel and units under the control ofthat party to the conflict. 247 The neutral Government shall notify this consent to the adversary ofthe State that accepts such assistance, and the party to a conflict that accepts such assistance mustnotify enemy States before using it. 248 This assistance is not considered as interference in theconflict by the neutral State. 249The staff of a recognized aid society of a neutral country who have been lent to a party tothe conflict must be furnished with an identity card similar to that provided to retained personnelbefore leaving their neutral State. 250 Such personnel who have fallen into the hands of the243 See GWS art. 26 (“The staff of National Red Cross Societies and that of other Voluntary Aid Societies, dulyrecognized and authorized by their Governments, who may be employed on the same duties as the personnel namedin Article 24, are placed on the same footing as the personnel named in the said Article, provided that the staff ofsuch societies are subject to military laws and regulations.”).244 See GWS art. 26 (“Each High Contracting Party shall notify to the other, either in time of peace or at thecommencement of or during hostilities, but in any case before actually employing them, the names of the societieswhich it has authorized, under its responsibility, to render assistance to the regular medical service of its armedforces.”).245 See 36 U.S.C. § 300102 (the purposes of the American National Red Cross include “to provide volunteer aid intime of war to the sick and wounded of the Armed Forces, in accordance with the spirit and conditions of … thetreaties of Geneva, August 22, 1864, July 27, 1929, and August 12, 1949” and “to perform all the duties devolved ona national society by each nation that has acceded to any of those treaties, conventions, or protocols”).246 Refer to § 18.19.3.1 (Uniform Code of Military Justice Offenses).247 GWS art. 27 (“A recognized Society of a neutral country can only lend the assistance of its medical personneland units to a Party to the conflict with the previous consent of its own Government and the authorization of theParty to the conflict concerned. That personnel and those units shall be placed under the control of that Party to theconflict.”).248 GWS art. 27 (“The neutral Government shall notify this consent to the adversary of the State which accepts suchassistance. The Party to the conflict who accepts such assistance is bound to notify the adverse Party thereof beforemaking any use of it.”).249 GWS art. 27 (“In no circumstances shall this assistance be considered as interference in the conflict.”).250 GWS art. 27 (“The members of the personnel named in the first paragraph shall be duly furnished with theidentity cards provided for in Article 40 before leaving the neutral country to which they belong.”); GWS art. 40(giving requirements with regard to the identification of “[t]he personnel designated in Article 24 and in Articles 26and 27”).135