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Mobile Army Surgical Hospitals (MASH) were U.S. Army field hospital units conceptualized in 1946 as replacements for the obsolete World War II-era Auxiliary Surgical Group hospital units. [1] MASH units were in operation from the Korean War to the Gulf War before being phased out in the early 2000s, in favor of combat support hospitals .
9th Portable Surgical Hospital, End of World War II Pacific Theater [10] ... 3343rd U.S. Army Hospital at Mobile, Alabama [145] supporting Redstone Arsenal (2014) [146]
The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, developed after World War II, would address these concerns. One-hundred percent mobile with organic vehicles, with 60 beds and assigned nurses, and fully equipped and supplied to provide definitive care, the MASH built on the experiences of the PSHs of World War II. [1]
During World War II the 95th Evacuation Hospital operated as a 400-bed mobile hospital. The unit was staffed with approximately 40 doctors, 40 nurses, and 220 enlisted men. [2] During operations in Morocco, Algiers, and Italy, it was attached to the U.S. Fifth Army and to the U.S.
The 61st Surgical Hospital was a 100-bed field hospital. It was converted in 1942 to a 400-bed semi-mobile evacuation hospital with a staff of 40 doctors, 43 nurses, and 6 administrative officers and organized as the 93rd Evacuation Hospital (Motorized).
On 16 August 1983 the unit was redesignated as the 10th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH). On 5 August 1987, the Department of the Army directed a realignment of the 10th MASH with the 4th Infantry Division (Mechanized), with an effective date of 16 August 1988.
The 5th Evacuation Hospital (Semimobile), which had previously seen service in both World Wars, was again activated at Fort Bragg on 2 October 1950, and would serve at Fort Bragg through various reconfigurations as a Combat Support Hospital, again as an Evacuation Hospital, and as a Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, before finally being ...
The Fort was also a major factor in the development of various forms of the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, or "MASH," and the perfection of many medical techniques used in trench warfare. Then-Captain Dwight D. Eisenhower served here for four months in 1917 as an instructor. [2] The post was declared surplus after World War II and sold.