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** In ''Five O'Clock Charlie'', Hawkeye sabotages Frank's attempts to shoot down an enemy plane bombing their camp, replaces Frank's gun with various items which could potentially get him killed, and decides to destroy a nearby munitions dump, using rather vital supplies, large amounts of bedsheets and antibiotics, in the process, with little regard to what that lost ammunition would mean to US troops in the sector.
*** The visiting general mentions that the munitions dump is ''barely'' legal under international law, and that it was put there to keep the ammo safe from being attacked, since the hospital is a non-target. Since it was getting the hospital attacked (legitimately, since the ammo dump stripped the hospital of its non-combatant status), Hawkeye took steps to protect the patients. Also, Charlie wasn't an enemy plane; he was a civilian vigilante who was targeting only the munitions, but kept hitting the camp instead.
**** None of that really makes it any better. It especially makes Hawkeye look like a [[Hypocrite]] since he repeatedly flies off the handle at allied pilots whose bombs are less precise than he'd like. Apparently Hawkeye only considers collateral damage a sin when it's white people dropping the bombs. Also, as was noted above in the example about keeping a nonfunctioning Howitzer around points out, Hawkeye's dedication to not making the camp a target is questionable at best.
* Why doesn't Klinger just shoot himself in the foot?
** Because self-inflicted wounds of that sort would get him out of the Army---and straight into Leavenworth, where he does not want to go.
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