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how come Hawkeye, Bj and Trapper were only Captains?
Since they were all drafted, why was Frank a Major, Henry a LT. Colonel, but Spearchucker, Hawkeye, BJ and Trapper, were only Captains? The amount of time served during the draft, should have been about the same. Also, the show was on for a decade and Hawkeye never gets promoted. WTF?
Funny. But in all seriousness, Henry was in the reserves if I remember right. There was an episode where they were sitting around the still talking about hoe Henry got to be CO. Frank was also reserves or in ROTC or something that is why he had a higher rank, that and he was a suck-up. What about Hogan's Hero's? How did Shultz ever get to be a Sargent?
Come to think of it why was Potter only a Colonel? It was his third war, and he was a career man?
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.
Modern liberalism is based on the idea that reality is obligated to conform to one's beliefs because; "I have the right to believe whatever I want".
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people."
-Penn Jillette
A World Without Guns <- Great Read!
You are corrcect. However I was taking this as more of a tongue in cheek discussion.
Originally Posted by UncleDave
Ok, I'll take my Mr. Serious hat off.
Modern liberalism is based on the idea that reality is obligated to conform to one's beliefs because; "I have the right to believe whatever I want".
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people."
-Penn Jillette
A World Without Guns <- Great Read!
Drinking, womanizing, illict drug use??
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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.
Modern liberalism is based on the idea that reality is obligated to conform to one's beliefs because; "I have the right to believe whatever I want".
"Everything the State says is a lie, and everything it has it has stolen.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
"Every time something really bad happens, people cry out for safety, and the government answers by taking rights away from good people."
-Penn Jillette
A World Without Guns <- Great Read!
Wouldn't they also have to have received a Bachelors prior to enlisting as a surgeon or med tech?
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