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It's kind of a pain in the neck that medics don't get a FAL/L1A1 as an option. In most other maps and factions the corpsman gets a primary arm comparable to the rifleman.

Back then, for both the Brits and Argies, Sub Machine Guns were basically the equivalent of today's non-scoped rifles, with even Lieutenant Colonel Herbert Jones, commander of 2nd Battalion The Parachute Regiment (2 PARA) during the Battle of Goose Green, heroically and single-handedly charged an Argentine Machine Gun Position with nothing but his L2A3 Sterling SMG, but got cut down by another machine gun in the processes while doing so but the Argentinian unit surrendered shortly afterwards and for his actions he was posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.

The main advantage of the SMG is its full auto, rate of fire and mag count, making them very good in CQB.

Anyways few refs:

I think he means, why is the medic the only that has have a sterling? Why can't the medic have select like the SL?

Why not the breacher that has the sterling?

Since the Sterling/PAM1 is more of a light defensive weapon which suits the medic role and from what my sources tell me, the weapon medics were issued:
The quiet heroes: The Falklands soldiers who risked everything to save both friend and foe | Daily Mail Online

Lance Corporal Bill Bentley, a medic assisting Hughes, was learning this firsthand as, with a medical pack on his back and Sterling sub-machine gun slung over his shoulder, he went out into the fighting to find casualties.

Many other kits get an SMG as their only primary weapon too, but they are requestable.