“Really, really annoying. And I loved the lot of them.”
A wistfulness enters his voice. No, he does not miss the Army, necessarily. He does not miss the wad. But there is always a camaraderie among veterans, among those you shared close quarters with during such a fraught period of your life. He remembers Hawkeye on the day he became Chief Surgeon, plunger in one hand and basketball in the other. Aside from our families, we’ll never be closer to anyone than we are to each other. No matter how much some of them fought with one another.
“We got away with flouting regulation quite a bit because of our efficacy rate. Our chief surgeon and his friend constantly antagonized two of the majors—one of them quite well deserved, I must say, the other largely because she kept taking his side. They put pudding in his pillow, stuck him in a shipping crate as he slept, went around in gorilla suits… oh, they got up to all sorts of things. They used their mischievous instincts for good, too, such as wheeling and dealing their way into getting us extra supplies we desperately needed.”
Oh. He misses them. Well—maybe not one of them, not anymore!
“There is one here, you know. It was quite a shock to see him, but he is! He’s set up a clinic here. Dr. Hawkeye Pierce.”
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A wistfulness enters his voice. No, he does not miss the Army, necessarily. He does not miss the wad. But there is always a camaraderie among veterans, among those you shared close quarters with during such a fraught period of your life. He remembers Hawkeye on the day he became Chief Surgeon, plunger in one hand and basketball in the other. Aside from our families, we’ll never be closer to anyone than we are to each other. No matter how much some of them fought with one another.
“We got away with flouting regulation quite a bit because of our efficacy rate. Our chief surgeon and his friend constantly antagonized two of the majors—one of them quite well deserved, I must say, the other largely because she kept taking his side. They put pudding in his pillow, stuck him in a shipping crate as he slept, went around in gorilla suits… oh, they got up to all sorts of things. They used their mischievous instincts for good, too, such as wheeling and dealing their way into getting us extra supplies we desperately needed.”
Oh. He misses them. Well—maybe not one of them, not anymore!
“There is one here, you know. It was quite a shock to see him, but he is! He’s set up a clinic here. Dr. Hawkeye Pierce.”