Captain Schnelker maskes One appearance on MASH 4077 episode Pressure Points (TV series episode)
Summary[]
A laison officer who briefs MASH doctors on new ways the human body is damaged in combat and how to treat these wounds, Potter has a "Section 8" emotional breakdown and starts screaming about war should be stopped....
Trivia[]
- Such an emotional breakdown in real life of military surgeon on the front lines would have resulted in said officer being releived of command and taken away for observation;
- Although Major Winchester would have been the ranking surgeon, his supercilious attiutde while once actually being in command would have ment MASH 4077 would have been under the command of the only ranking compent officer Major Margaret Houlihan
- Ironically bespite his smart aleck attitude during the briefing, Hawkeye actually saved a patient who suffered from phosperous shrapnel burns
- Schnelker was played by actor John o'Connell