While dictating his article over the phone to the press train, Clayton Kibbee says of the soldier wounded in the motorcycle accident, "He'll be back laughing with his buddies in a week." But Hawkeye diagnosed McKegney with a compound fracture, which can take months to heal. McKegney certainly would not be fit to return to his unit in just a week. The main plot is all about how Kibbee exaggerates and sensationalizes his war stories, so this untrue statement fits his behavior.