Hsia joined up in the year that the Nationalist forces retreated from the mainland, and soon found himself in a desk job at Air Force General HQ in Taiwan. By coincidence, the dormitory bunk above his was occupied by another aspiring painter, Wu Hao.
也就在夏陽從軍的那年，國軍撤退來台，夏陽隨著部隊來到台灣，進入空軍總部擔任文書工作。