how come Hawkeye, Bj and Trapper were only Captains?

[Zundfolge]

Keep in mind that MASH was meant to be an anti-war/anti-military political statement, so clearly all the "cool guys" wouldn't be "Army Material" and thus wouldn't have raised up the ranks whereas Frank Burns (and to a lesser extent Margaret Houlihan) was an archetypical right wing, jingoistic American douche so of course the evil Army would promote him.

The only reason Blake and Potter were Colonels (and still sympathetic characters) is because they needed to have someone in charge.

[UncleDave]

You are corrcect. However I was taking this as more of a tongue in cheek discussion.

[Zundfolge]

You are corrcect. However I was taking this as more of a tongue in cheek discussion.

Ok, I'll take my Mr. Serious hat off.

[Great-Kazoo]

Drinking, womanizing, illict drug use??

[HBARleatherneck]

and Hawkeye and Margaret, never earned enough rotation points. After a couple years, they would have both moved on. Even with Houlahan being regular army, she wouldnt have stayed in a front line unit forever.

[Zundfolge]

and Hawkeye and Margaret, never earned enough rotation points. After a couple years, they would have both moved on. Even with Houlahan being regular army, she wouldnt have stayed in a front line unit forever.

Yeah but the real Korean War ran only three years ... MASH ran for eleven.

Obviously they were stuck in some sort of temporal bubble.

[KevDen2005]

Ok, I'll take my Mr. Serious hat off.

I thought it was a great analysis, personally.

You get an 'A' in my class...