Mobile army surgical hospital (US) The Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (MASH) refers to a United States Army medical unit serving as a fully functional hospital in a combat area of operations. The units were first established in August 1945, and were deployed during the Korean War and later conflicts.
In New Mexico the river is known as the Dry Cimarron River. The river is not completely dry but sometimes disappears entirely under the sand in the river bed. The Dry Cimarron Scenic Byway follows the river from Folsom to the Oklahoma border.escription: The Cimarron River is a tributary of the Arkansas. It extends over 698 miles (1123 km) across four states (New Mexico, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Kansas). The headwaters flow from Johnson Mesa west of Folsom in northeastern New Mexico.
1 Middle (Cimarron) Crossings. 2  The Middle Crossings of the Arkansas River to the Cimarron River extended from the Caches site, about 2 miles west of Dodge City, to as far as Charleston, 26 miles farther west. 3  No crossings are visible today because of sandy soils and frequent floods. This Point of Rocks is 8 miles north of Elkhart on Kansas 27 and 1.5 miles west on a dirt road through Cimarron National Grassland. 2  It was a lookout along the Cimarron Valley for both Indians and traders, with one branch of the trail running between the rock and the river.