MASH Units and Information

I began this paper based on an interview I had with my grandmother for an Intertional Relations class, I may have already stated this in another page on the site, but I would like to elaborate on the interview and the MASH units that my late-granfather was involved in.

Dr. Lawrence had just been married and offered a job at a hospital in Japan when he was drafted into the Korean War. He was to serve in a new invention of the US Military, a MASH unit. MASH stood for Mobile Army Surgical Hospital and it's just was to provide soldiers a line of hopsital grade treatment that would follow and move around with them as the war went on. The results from the expiriment were great, compared to WW2 the Korean War had over 1.0% fewer battle deaths, over 1.3% fewer deaths from wounds and half the soldiers wounded in action. The numbers only dropped from there.

One interesting fact from the interview with my grandmother was how restricted my grandfather was from intelligence. She knew as much or more about the war than he did as it was going on just by watching the TV, and anything he knew for certain first wouldn't reach her mailbox till a month or more later, well after he and the other servicemen had trudged forward much father.

My grandfather returned home and went back to being a doctor, a career he conintued for decades before passing away. My grandmother is a doctor was well and is still working into her 90s and she's especially famous in the medical fields for her work in pediatrics.

Sources:

King, Booker; Jatoi, Ismail (May 2005). "The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH): A Military and Surgical Legacy" (PDF).