Plot summary

Set during the Korean War, surgeons Captains "Hawkeye" Pierce and "Duke" Forrest, join the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), located three miles from the front lines. Both are draftees and care little for military protocols and conventions. They are soon joined by another surgeon even more anarchic and insubordinate in his attitude, Capt. John "Trapper" McIntyre. The commander is the laid back-yet-efficient Lt. Colonel Blake. Hawkeye, Duke, and Trapper soon have the camp running to their rather non-military tune but then run into Major Frank Burns and the new chief nurse Major Margaret Houlihan (later nicknamed "Hot Lips"), both of whom are by-the-book permanent military types. Hawkeye, Duke, and Trapper set out to undermine the pair. Highjinks ensue.—grantss/siegerrob76