How to stabilize soldiers

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So I've got a critically wounded soldier lying around. My medic has moved into range, but the med-pack icon remains greayed out. However, I can still select the med-pack and target the soldier, and the tooltip tells me to stabilize the target. However, pressing "Ok" does nothing. I've had this exact situation twice, in different missions. Is that a bug?

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There is actually a separate skill for reviving downed members. It's a different icon than the heal skill (and if your skill bars are anything like mine, it's way on the other end, and it moves around from time to time). And yes, you do need a medpack charge available for use.

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Soldiers stuck as wounded

If you have soldiers that show up as "Wounded" but lack a number of days until recovery, that soldier is, unfortunately, bugged.

A similar thing used to happen with SHIVs and was fixed in the 10/11 patch, so until Firaxis pass along another patch, you don't have any real options.

When do the soldiers gain ranks

As this wiki page suggests (game mechanism tuning, did not tested myself), there is a XP chart for your soldiers:

Soldier XP Levels (Rookie, Squaddie, Corporal, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain, Major, Colonel)  
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=0  
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=90 
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=300  
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=510  
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=745
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=1100  
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=1560 
  - m_iSoldierXPLevels=2150

Though kills does not make all. It does bring experience, as stated in Does the type of kill matter for promotion?, but all your promoted soldiers did not necessarily killed a target. It can be assumed that participating to a kill also grants some experience.

Furthermore, I think there is a mission bonus awarded to each surviving soldier.

There are also bonus that can be bought through the soldier academy: wet work that increase the amount of experience gained and the new soldier auto-squaddie promotion come to my mind.

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