ADDENDA to the Kiddush Hashem ...M*A*S*H Israeli Style

Does Anyone Remember the TV hit series ... M*A*S*H ?

MASH units continued to serve in various conflicts including the Vietnam War. In October 1990 the 5th MASH, 44th Medical Brigade, XVIIIth AirBorne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, deployed to Saudi Arabia and was the first fully functional Army Hospital in country. This unit moved forward six times, always as the first up hospital for the region. In March 1991 the 5th MASH was operationally attached to the 24th Infantry Division to provide Forward Surgical Care (often right on the front battle lines) to the Combat Units that attacked the western flank of Iraqi Army. In March 1991, the 159th MASH of the Louisiana Army National Guard operated in Iraq in support of the 3rd Armored Division during Operation Desert Storm.


Worldwide, the last MASH unit was deactivated on October 16, 2006. The 212th MASH — based in Miesau Ammo Depot, Germany — was the first U.S. Army hospital established in Iraq in 2003, supporting coalition forces during Operation Iraqi Freedom. It was the most decorated combat hospital in the U.S. Army, with 28 Battle Streamers on the organizational colors. The 212th MASH's last deployment was to Pakistan to support the 2005 Kashmir earthquake relief operations. The U.S. State Department bought the MASH's tents and medical equipment, owned by the DoD, and donated the entire hospital to the Pakistani military, a donation worth $4.5 million.

In the M*A*S*H series, about four surgeons are depicted as being assigned to the unit, the administrative staff consists of the C.O. and his assistant, and few soldiers were shown to be present. By comparison, the 8076th Army Unit Mobile Army Surgical Hospital had personnel including twelve nurses, eighty-nine enlisted soldiers of assorted medical and non-medical specialties, one MSC [clarification needed], one Warrant Officer and ten Commissioned Officers of assorted specialties. On one occasion, the unit handled over 600 casualties in a 24 hour period.

M*A*S*H Israeli Style

ABC, CNN, NYTimes are actually praising the Israeli Field Hospital. Haitians are flocking to the Israeli M*A*S*H unit. YNet news

PORT-AU-PRINCE - The Israeli field hospital in the earthquake-stricken Haitian capital reflects the streets of the city, fluctuating between despair and hope amid the looting, violence and stories of miracles. Each account takes on great importance against the background of the earthquake that devastated the Western hemisphere's poorest country. [...] "We were shocked by the sights, and the nurses here have to cope with providing nursing care - it's a third-world country," she says. "I have four children myself and I was an emergency-room nurse, but the sights here are very difficult and you need a lot of mental fortitude. We've already taken in 87 children, most in moderate to serious condition; there have been a few operations and amputations, and they keep coming."Haaretz

“Thank G-d, we’re able to help, but these people need so much more,” [...] Rabbi Shimon Pelman, director of Chabad-Lubavitch of the Dominican Republic, said that things were chaotic outside the hospital as droves of hungry and thirsty Haitians surrounded a truck driven by a visiting rabbinical student from New York. Pelman and another rabbinical student emptied the truck of its 20,000 pounds of supplies, handing out such carbohydrate-rich foods as bread and pasta, and bottles of water. Chabad

"IDF field hospital in Haiti the “only ones operating”
Wow a pig must have just flown by because CNN has done a story praising Israel and the IDF for the medical aid they are providing in Haiti following the devastating earthquake. [...] ABC praised the Israeli mission which had assisted a birth using a complicated procedure. The network’s reporter, himself a trained doctor, came across a woman on the point of giving birth. First he tried to assist, but when he discovered the baby was turned sideways, he knew there was trouble. This baby had to be born via C-section and even then there were risks. He consulted experts in the U.S. but they wrote back things like “this baby will be IMPOSSIBLE to deliver alive in Haiti.” Then he remembered the Israeli field hospital, called the Israeli consulate in New York and was directed to the IDF camp. The mother’s life, it turns out, was also in extreme danger as she was suffering from pre-eclampsia, the biggest killer of pregnant women in Haiti. Source OlehGirl

"Israeli Teams to stay on in Haiti another Month"
[...] "The foreign rescue teams operating in Haiti are streaming the injured and sick to the Israeli IDF field hospital at the Antoine Izmery soccer field, still the only medical facility with a fully-equipped operating theater, intensive care units, child and maternity wards, laboratories and an X-ray facility operated by 250 staff." Debka

Nothing but Pride for our Blessed Israeli Soldiers and Medical Staff

Blessed by Hashem

Meanwhile America is mired by their Bureaucracy

that seems to be Outdoing the so-called Israeli Bureaucracy!

Unfortunately we know the best way to respond to tragedy

I am just so proud