Seems like it might be a bit of a bittersweet day for you and the people in MASH. Rear Admiral MICHAEL LEFEVER (Commander, MASH unit, Pakistan): Hello. MONTAGNE: We turn now to Rear Admiral Michael LeFever on the line from Islamabad, Pakistan, where he's been in charge of handing over the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, MASH.
With the Iraq War came smaller, more mobile units that could get right near the battlefield, which has made the MASH units outdated. These many hospitals served in the Vietnam War and the Gulf War. INSKEEP: MASH was set where the real MASH units began, in the Korean War. I hope the fact that I'm on the side that shot you won't strain our doctor-patient relationship. Captain Benjamin Franklin Hawkeye Pierce): Hi, there. Unidentified Actor: Another North Korean bad chest wound. We have the finalists in the shrapnel catching contest. Gary Burghoff(as a MASH Unit Member Radar O'Reilly): Attention all personnel, triage in the compound. This is the end of a military enterprise that found its way into the popular imagination, through a fictional bunch of medical misfits in a movie, and then in some of the darkest comedy ever to go on TV. Army medical team has been there since last October, offering care to civilians wounded in the earthquake. The last MASH unit was officially handed over today to the government of Pakistan. After more than 50 years of patching up broken bodies brought in from the battlefield, the Army's last mobile surgical hospitals, known as MASH, are no more.
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