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US Navy 021023-N-5329L-002 Capt. Mike Salmi Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetist (CRNA) from the 212th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) Miesau, Germany, and Dilmurod local national Interpreter
U.S. Army soldiers and Dilmurod local national interpreter train local Uzbek anesthesia providers on the 885 Mobile Anesthesia Machine at the Fergana Emergency Center in support of Operation Provide Hope.

A Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (or M.A.S.H. or MASH) was a medical center used during wars, to care and fix injured soldiers who got hurt in the fighting. They were an alternative to field hospitals and real hospitals which were used in World War II. During the Korean War, thanks to these kinds of hospitals, soldiers had a 97% chance of surviving an injury. They were also used in the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War, but were gradually replaced by Combat Support Hospitals or CSHs which are used today. Many people know about these places due to a well-known movie and later TV show called M*A*S*H, which was set was a hospital like this during the Korean War.

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  • 8225th MASH personnel with H-13 helo in Korea 1951

    U.S. personnel and equipment needed to save a man's life are assembled at HQs of the 8225th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, Korea, in 1951.

  • Wounded soldier arriving at the 8063rd MASH

    US Army medics move a wounded soldier on a stretcher from a 568th Medical Ambulance Company ambulance into a tent for treatment at the 8225th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH), Korea, September 1, 1951.

See also

Kids robot.svg In Spanish: MASH (hospital móvil quirúrgico del ejército) para niños

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