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Message:: [QUOTE="Inspector43, post: 26529427, member: 89213"]Our uncle Ed Case was in F Troop down on the Mexican border during the Punitive Campaign. The after-action report below is the only one I can find regarding F Troop. My brother Pat and I would ride our bikes to different places and visit. While visiting Uncle Ed we listened to him tell stories about F Troop on the border. This was long before the TV comical series came out. Uncle Ed said that F Troop was a bunch of screw ups and derelicts that were kept away from the fighting. They performed all the menial tasks like KP and cleaning stables. Close comparison to F Troop the TV series. After-Action Report: Castleman met Sergeant Michael Fody, who had rallied the lieutenant’s F Troop. Without hesitating, Castleman led F Troop toward the town, where the situation seemed to be most critical. Lucas was also active, joining his machine-gun troop and breaking out all available weapons. The French-made Benet-Mercier machine guns, fed by 30-round stock clips, had a nasty habit of jamming at inopportune moments. Lucas and his men began firing into the darkness, the raiders’ muzzle flashes their only clue to where the enemy might be. The noise of machine guns joined the sharp crack of Springfields and the bark of Mausers. Many raiders were cut down by the machine guns, which fired some 20,000 rounds before the fight was over.[/QUOTE]