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The First by Hawk-Hotlips
A/N: I don't own MASH, Fox does. No characters that were in the book or movie but weren't in the TV show won't appear except for the dentist. And here's a shocker for you; there won't be any Margaret or Trapper or Spearchucker in this story. Hawkeye appears in the end. Part 1 of a two story series.
There they came. Over the hill without even a bedpan to their name. There were only two of them, the CO, Lieutenant Colonel Henry Braymore Blake, and Company Clerk Corporal Walter Eugene "Radar" O'Rielly, but they knew this would be a successful place.
The Korean War had just started, and doctors were needed for MASH units, evac hospitals, and Aid Stations. Where these two were going was the site of the first MASH unit, the 4077th .
The Supply Truck was coming about a mile behind, with the papers they need, phones, tents, and the like.
Besides Henry, there wasn't a doctor for a mile and a half in any direction. The other doctors of the unit were coming in a few days. Radar only had heard the names once, but he remembered them;
Major Frank Burns, surgeon
Major Samuel Hammer,
Captain John "Ugly John" Smith, surgeon
Captain John Spaulding, surgeon
Captain Walter Blowersdentist
and Captain Jacob Striper, surgeon.
Henry was also a surgeon.It seemed that you could only be a surgeon or aa dentist in the Army because that was all they were getting.
Then there was the nurses, they only knew of one at the moment, but they were to expect nineteen more.The nurse that was coming was also the head nurse, and her name was Major Cynthia Bergheimer.
Yep, it was going to be a while before everything is set up and everyone arrives, but luckily the people in the Supply Truck came to stay, their names were; Corporal Maxwell Q. Klinger, who only went into the Army to avoid jail (making his serial number start with 'RA') and Private Igor Straminsky. Igor was to be the man who served the food and temporary cook, and Klinger was to be a corpsman.
In any event, they were the first and that's the way they liked it.