bean patch nickname during the Korean war, an assembly area on the northern outskirts of Masan, a seaport about 40 miles west of Pusan US
The 1st Marine Brigade moved its headquarters to a new bivouac area near Masan that came to be known in marine lore as the Bean Patch. The area in calmer times had been exactly that. — Joseph C. Goulden, Korea, p. 182, 1982