B.J.,Hawkeye and Radar Radar was feeling down "I don't think that this place is turning out to be that great an experience for me". So what do you want to be asks BJ "A hot lover, or even a cold one, I don't care" replies Radar. So Hawkeye persuaded him to sign a weekend pass, take a jeep to Seoul and visit the Pink Pagoda." A little you know never hurt anyone."
The next time Hawkeye saw Radar he was laying on a stretcher in pre-op, he'd been injured by a mortar round. Hawkeye insisted on carrying out the surgery himself, and then headed straight for Rosie's bar to drown his guilt in Saki. pre-op
He managed only 2 hours sleep before the sound of choppers bringing more incoming wounded woke him. He was so hung over he was unable to finish an operation leaving Winchester to close for him.
When Hawkeye called into post-op to visit him Radar was subdued "You walked out on a patient. A lot of people look up to you here. They admire you and they want to be like you, and when you walk out, they feel you let them down. If they can't depend on you, then maybe there's no point in depending on anything." Hawkeye was quick to reply "Look, you can't lay all that on my shoulders, don't you know how much this place stinks." When Hawkeye left, Radar was nearly in tears.
Father Mulcahy was the first to visit the swamp to admonish Hawkeye, "have you lost your mind", he said, as he kicked the stove. Col. Potter was next, closely followed by Margaret.
When Hawkeye tried to apologize, Radar wasn't interested "You know, I don't need you to tell me what's what, I know what's what just as well as you do. So why don't you just crawl back in your bottle and pickle yourself."
It took a while but they soon started talking again, Hawkeye even managed a salute after he pinned on Radar's Purple Heart.