It is funny. It probably did color my view of officers - enlisted interactions a little, the enlisted guys were not nearly as big a bunch of schemers as you would think. For the time it was not really appreciated for some ground breaking about blacks on TV. Kinch was the #2 in the group, Hogan always turns to him for serious advice. Kinch always reads Hogan and knows the Colonel has something in mind before any of the others. Kinch is also the educated one of the enlisted guys, as the radioman and engineer - and the athlete. Carter is a goofy klutz. LeBeau is a cook and gets stuffed in small places. Newkirk is supposed to be the scheming con man, but usually ends up as the doubter and whiner. When Baker came into the group, he ran the radio but never really got to the Kinch level of confidence with Hogan. The show is under appreciated for the character portrayals. Klink, Berkhalter and Schultz actually fought against the Germans in WW2, so if there was some sensitivity, it was playing them for comedy in a serious subject. Ran 5 years, so was a hit, after all.