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Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan

Straightforward, by the book and a seeming contradiction to her name, Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan is head of the Army Nurse Corps for the 4077. Literally born into the Army, Her dad Alvin Houlihan is a Colonel and growing up in this environment is how she developed her sense of strict decorum and regimen.

Major Houlihan has little patience for those she feels do not live up to her standards of discipline – notably Hawkeye Pierce, Trapper John and Col. Blake. When she's not spending her days battling with them, she's spending her nights with Major Frank Burns.

Her love life is quite complicated, from her affair with the married Major Burns, to her marriage (and later divorce) to Lt. Colonel Donald Penobscott; she seems in love with the idea of being in love. She also has a brief affair with Jack Scully and seems to harbor a secret crush on Trapper John.

Over the years at camp she develops a softer side, making peace with Hawkeye and becoming more of a friend to the nurses and doctors. She genuinely grieves for Col. Blake upon his death and has great respect and admiration for Col. Potter.