Bye, Bye, Hawkeye, BJ, Radar and Hotlips

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,173352,00.html
from JoeUser Forums

A seemingly innocent news article today reveals the passing of an institution.  The US Military is sending the only remaining MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) to Pakistan to help with the Earthqake.  The 212 MASH.  The LAST ONE.  It seems that the army has come up with a new animal called a CASH (uh, oh!).  They say that the Combat Army Surgical Hospitals are more responsive than the MASH.  From the results in Iraq, I guess they are right.

But for those of us who lived through the Movie and Episodes of M*A*S*H, it is kind of sad to see that icon being retired.  I guess the Army just could not tolerate the hi-jinks of Hawkeye, BJ and Trapper John any longer.

Farewell, so long, good bye.

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Reply #1 from JoeUser Forums Top
Combat Army Surgical Hospital

That would be another nice cause for donations employed by Alan B'Stard!
Reply #2 from JoeUser Forums Top

Combat Army Surgical Hospital

Sure, I am going to write all my checks out to CASH!

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Reply #4 from JoeUser Forums Top

you forgot about Klinger

I was only using Nicknames, not their actual names.  So I did not list Potter, Blake, or Mulcahy either.

Reply #5 from JoeUser Forums Top
I remember a few years back when they closed the last remaining active MASH in Korea. That was a pretty emotional time for a lot of the people involved. Many of the stars from the show came out to Korea for the ceremony. It was a really nice event.
Reply #6 from JoeUser Forums Top

Sure, I am going to write all my checks out to CASH!


Alan's most famous trick.
Reply #7 from JoeUser Forums Top
we had a couple MASH in vietnam too, do not forget these brave drs and nurses that fought at the front as much as any combat grunt.
Reply #8 from JoeUser Forums Top

Many of the stars from the show came out to Korea for the ceremony. It was a really nice event.

I guess I am glad I did not hear about that!  It would have been a sad occassion.  But I guess the new concept of the CASH is a better idea.  Just the name is very suspect!

Reply #9 from JoeUser Forums Top

Alan's most famous trick.

Phil Silver's too!

Reply #10 from JoeUser Forums Top

we had a couple MASH in vietnam too, do not forget these brave drs and nurses that fought at the front as much as any combat grunt.

We wont.  Thanks to the book and series, and especially Robert Hooker.

Reply #11 from JoeUser Forums Top
One of my National Guard units was the 144th CSH (not sure if the Army added the A or the reporter did ;~D ). Apparently you can't be a MASH if you have a Forward Area Surgical Team (FAST) (basically an Operating Room in that amounts to a tool shed (CONEX for you military minded folks) and your company clerk neither sleeps with a teddy bear nor wore dresses at one time in his military career. ;~D

Glad the guys in the last MASH can be used to help the victims of the earthquakes. Even though they are "From the Government" and there to help, I know they'll give the people of Pakistan their best, afterall, those folks truly have been through enough!
Reply #12 from JoeUser Forums Top

Phil Silver


Who is Phil Silver?
Reply #13 from JoeUser Forums Top

One of my National Guard units was the 144th CSH (not sure if the Army added the A or the reporter did ;~D ).

I am just an ignorant civvie, so I trusted the reported (My bad I know!).  But how do you know the company clerk did not sleep with a teddy bear?

Reply #14 from JoeUser Forums Top

Who is Phil Silver?

The Original Sargent Bilko.  Plus he played a lot of other sleezy characters, like one of the guys in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World (one of Spencer Tracey's last films).  He always played the guy trying to work the angles.

Reply #15 from JoeUser Forums Top
I am just an ignorant civvie, so I trusted the reported (My bad I know!). But how do you know the company clerk did not sleep with a teddy bear?


I was the Assistant Signal Section Chief... The radio guys know everything going on in the unit... sometimes we knew way too much! ;~D
Reply #16 from JoeUser Forums Top
Sure, I am going to write all my checks out to CASH


Johnny thanks you for your support.
Reply #17 from JoeUser Forums Top
I think for the enemy that get free medical we should have a unit called TRASH The Real American Surgical Hospital.
Reply #18 from JoeUser Forums Top

I was the Assistant Signal Section Chief... The radio guys know everything going on in the unit... sometimes we knew way too much! ;~D

Is it like the confessional?  Where you cant tell?

Reply #19 from JoeUser Forums Top

I think for the enemy that get free medical we should have a unit called TRASH The Real American Surgical Hospital.

We could get really good with military acronyms!  FAST, CASH, and now TRASH

Reply #20 from JoeUser Forums Top

Johnny thanks you for your support.

So does the Citizens Against Sad Humans!

Reply #21 from JoeUser Forums Top

The Original Sargent Bilko.  Plus he played a lot of other sleezy characters, like one of the guys in It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, World (one of Spencer Tracey's last films).  He always played the guy trying to work the angles.


See, there are some things I don't know about American culture.

But the real question is, do you know British culture and who Alan B'Stard is?

(I am sure you'd like him! He is a sort of figurehead for European neo-cons.)
Reply #22 from JoeUser Forums Top

But the real question is, do you know British culture and who Alan B'Stard is?

No, But I think he and Phil Silvers are a lot a like.  Got a link to him?

Reply #23 from JoeUser Forums Top
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/newstatesman.htm

The performer (Rik Mayall) also did a show about left-wing students (anarchists with rich parents) and later appeared as Hitler in a commercial against the Euro.
Reply #24 from JoeUser Forums Top

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/tv/comedy/newstatesman.htm

The performer (Rik Mayall) also did a show about left-wing students (anarchists with rich parents) and later appeared as Hitler in a commercial against the Euro.

Thanks.  I will make a note to check it out tonight!  He is better than Benny Hill, right?  I am not a Benny fan.

Reply #25 from JoeUser Forums Top
He is not that kind of comedian.

Benny Hill is not considered one of the best here. He was merely good for exports because even the Germans got his "humour".