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M*A*S*H We got a call that, ''Doc, clear the deck. You've got multiple casualties coming in.''And here come over a period of about three days several hundred Army casualties, and many of ‘em had been out on the ice for two and three days. When they came in these men were frozen, literally frozen. Smith bristled at the notion that this was a withdrawal or a retreat. There was no front. There was no rear. He was surrounded in all directions and therefore any movement in any direction is essentially an attack. === Everything was complicated by exposure to extreme cold. They had stopped bleeding because the area froze and as they thawed they started bleeding and we discovered four or five additional bullet holes. You did the best you could do and when you finished you moved on to the next patient.