Bored out of my skull

"If you weren't humping, you were waiting. I remember the monotony. Digging foxholes. Slapping mosquitoes. The sun and the heat and the endless paddies. Even in the deep bush, where you could die any number of ways, the war was nakedly and aggressively boring" (page 34). This reminded me that soldiers were not always going out and killing all the time. Reading this part made me think of Hawkeye Pierce from the t.v. show, MASH. Hawkeye was a surgeon and was drafted into the Korean War. He hates the war and all of the people who created the war and those who are supposed to end the war. He constantly says he is 'bored out of his skull.' While the 4077th waits for causalities, there is not much to do. He drinks, pulls pranks, and talks to nurses. Hawkeye's friend, B.J., says that war is an unorganized bore. It is true because the soldiers are limited to what they can do as they wait. They do not have televisions or phones in the bush.