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[M*A*S*H] When Hawkeye dumps the garbage on the visiting colonel who creates many more casualties by sending troops back to collect already dead soldiers...

Hawkeye has a helicopter drop garbage he purchased from Frank's idiotic camp garbage sale on the colonel. 

Assuming the colonel wishes to press charges (and it seems likely that he would), how could Hawkeye have avoided getting locked up?

Klinger was in on it, but I can see him lying to keep Hawkeye safe. Ditto for the chopper pilot. But Hawkeye admits it's his garbage, rightfully purchased including having a receipt, to Frank.

How does Hawkeye wriggle out of this one?
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MASH was largely fantastic, but has one huge grain of truth - MDs can get away with almost anything in the military, even in peacetime.  A trauma surgeon in wartime is an incredibly valuable resource. Proof point: retired and former military docs are routinely asked to return to active duty during wartime. 

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Hawkeye Piece was not only a very talented doctor, he was a trauma surgeon with significant experience in battlefield wounds. If they court martialed him and send him to the stockade, there was likely **no one to replace him**. Remember, this is the Korean War, 7 or 8 years after WW2 - the entire generation of young men who would have been finishing their surgical fellowships are still in medical school or residency. Or they are dead because of WW2. 

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It was repeatedly stated that his superiors knew he was sort of a dick and completely unmilitary and they didn't care. Not just his MASH COs, but various Generals.

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