Talk:Mobile Army Surgical Hospital

message: The stat on a solider having a 97% survival rate once they reach a MASH unit is very hard to verify. There are no reliable references to this stat that I can find on the web, nor a search through some papers on MASH units. The stat appears to originate from the TV series MASH, Season 4, Episode 24. I think that unless someone can find some stats to back it up, it needs to be removed. Besides, my own personal view (which shouldn't come in to it, but does) says that 97% is an incredibly high survival rate for battlefield injuries. The only way I can see that working is that since the MASH unit is back from the war front, in the time it takes to get the wounded to the unit, those that were going to die, already have done so, and therefore don't weigh the stat down.   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 121.98.166.152 (talk) 11:26, 17 November 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: 97% chance

message: The Mac-Pap Battalion entry claims that Dr. Norman Bethume invented the MASH. I don't know who's right but I wanted to point out the disrepency. —User:207.200.137.3 15:35, 9 April 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Bethume developed the first modern mobile military medical units during the Spanish Civil War.  Strictly speaking a “MASH” (Mobil Army Surgical Hospital) was a specific type of U.S. Army medical unit, eventually replaced by a CSH (Combat Support Hospital).  Due to the popularity of the series M*A*S*H, many people now informally use “MASH” to refer to any mobile military field hospital. —MJBurrage • talk • 15:17, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Mac-Pap

message: Is this article a stub? It provides enough links and information in my opinion to have the stub banner at the bottom removed...
If no one replies to this comment I'll remove it 5 July. —User:Flydpnkrtn 00:53, 3 July 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Still a Stub?

message: I closed a VFD debate, Wikipedia:Votes for deletion/M*A*S*H developments in Korea, over an essay which some people expressed interest in having merged with this article. I have left the essay in the history, and can be found at this link. —Sjakkalle (Check!) 12:11, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: An essay some may be interested in reading

message: This article states that the last MASH unit was decommissioned in 1997.  However AP reported today that the US Army sent a MASH unit to Pakistan . —User:69.157.125.216 16:58, 24 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: The link provided to the 212 website insinuates the MASH is still operating. Why does the article then say that the last unit was decommissioned?Michael Dorosh 19:55, 25 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  NPR Story indicating decommissioning: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219020 Darthnice 20:26, 10 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Decommissioned?

message: http://www.nmanet.org/JMNA_Journal_Articles/May-JNMA/Hist648.pdf
Among other things it mentions MUST and MAST being in Viet Nam. —User:Gbleem 01:46, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: A History

message: It should be noted that this comparison is only to the TV series.  In the movie, the staff was much larger.  There were 17 nurses, and several other surgeons.  Even The Swamp had one more resident and they didn't all work the same shifts.  174.91.4.181 (talk) 05:55, 27 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  MASH in M*A*S*H* 

message: The usage of  is up for discussion, see Talk:M*A*S*H -- 70.24.250.103 (talk) 06:03, 17 April 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: MASH

message: Whilst providing a general overview of what it did, this article gives no insight into the scale of a MASH - how many doctors / nurses / patients / other staff were part of it. Of course this may reflect that many configurations existed over the years, but it seems to be a lack. Ender's Shadow Snr (talk) 20:48, 7 July 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  More details about what a MASH consisted of please?