He never wears rank insignia on his fatigues, never polishes his combat boots, and only wears his Class A uniform when he believes appearance can achieve greater good – but does not wear any of the decorations to which he is entitled. Pierce has little tolerance for military red tape and customs, feeling they get in the way of his doing his job, and has little respect for most Regular Army personnel. I mean, he wanted nothing more than to have people leave him alone so he could enjoy his martini, you know? Government should get out of his liquor cabinet". But he was also a traditional conservative. Alda said of Pierce, "Some people think he was very liberal. He served briefly in World War II in 1950 he was drafted into the US Army Medical Corps and sent to serve at the 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) during the Korean War. After completing his medical residency (possibly in Chicago he has a familiarity with the city that implies extended time spent there, e.g., "Adam's Ribs") he had a common law marriage with a nurse, Carlye Breslin, but they broke up after a year. In the book and the film, Hawkeye had played football in college in the series, he is non-athletic. He attended the fictional Androscoggin College. Īlthough he had a rather unremarkable boyhood growing up, by his own admittence he had had several experiences he never forgot: once when young he fell overboard in a pond and nearly drowned as a result of a cruel practical joke (which left him with a lifelong fear of claustraphobia) when he was 10 he made his father extremly angry when the elder Pierce found his son in bed with a girl and smoking a cigarette when he was 12 he found out his father was dating a female bookkeeper to keep attention to himself Hawkeye selfishly ruined their relationship so they couldn't marry. Among those from the Medical School is listed one Benjamin Franklin Peirce. Īlternatively, in the lobby of Memorial Hall at Harvard University, the names of Harvard men who died in the Civil War are inscribed. His birth name is taken from a member of Hooker's own family named Franklin Pierce.
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He was given the nickname "Hawkeye" by his father, Benjy (Sr.), in the novel and in the series from the character in the novel The Last of the Mohicans, "the only book my old man ever read".
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In the novel and film, Hawkeye is married with children, but in the TV series, he is a bachelor and something of a ladies' man. His mother is deceased and he has a sister (although, like Vermont, they are mentioned in some early episodes), and he is close to his father, who-as mentioned in the later episodes-is also a doctor. His father graduated from medical school and settled in Crabapple Cove Maine in 1911. Pierce was born and raised in New England, most often mentioning Crabapple Cove, Maine, with a few references (primarily in the early seasons) to Vermont. In the television series, he becomes the Chief Surgeon of the unit early in the first season. Although just one of an ensemble of characters in author Richard Hooker's MASH: A Novel About Three Army Doctors, in the television series Hawkeye became the center of the MASH unit's medical activity.
In the novel, he serves as a moral center and author's alter ego, chiding Trapper John for calling Major Houlihan "Hot Lips," which he never does himself. Between long sessions of treating wounded patients, he is found making wisecracks, drinking heavily, carousing, womanizing, and pulling pranks on the people around him, especially Frank Burns and "Hot Lips" Houlihan. in the novel) was played by Donald Sutherland in the film and by Alan Alda on television.
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