F Troop

F Troop (1965)

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Corporal Randolph Agarn: How do you get to Fort Courage? That's easy. You take a right at the rock that looks like a bear, then a left at the bear that looks like a rock.

Chief Wild Eagle: It is balloon.

Captain Wilton Parmenter: We come in peace.
Chief Wild Eagle: What else?

Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke: F Troop just wouldn't be the same without the Old Man, sir.
Captain Wilton Parmenter: What Old Man?
Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke: Why, you, sir. You're the Old Man.
Captain Wilton Parmenter: That's right. I keep forgetting I'm the Old Man around here.

Chief Wild Eagle: Hekawis very brave warriors, except for one thing.
Sergeant Morgan O'Rourke: What's that?
Chief Wild Eagle: We faint a lot.

Scourge of the West - S1-E1

Factual error: We see how the accident-prone Wilton Parmenter was a soldier at Appotomatox during the Civil War when he sneezed. Union soldiers mistook his sneezing for a call to regroup and charge, winning the battle. Wilton Parmenter was awarded the Medal Of Honour. Accident-prone, even in his moment of glory, when the medal was pinned on Wilton's chest it pierced his skin, drawing blood. Wilton was therefore awarded the Purple Heart, becoming "the only soldier in history to get a medal for getting a medal." This was not possible, for the "Purple Heart" (or "Badge Of Military Merit", to use its proper title) awarded to US soldiers wounded in action, was only instituted in 1932. (Before somebody corrects me, George Washington did institute the award for some distinguished combatants during the War Of Independence, but it was never awarded during the nineteenth century, and revived in 1932).

Rob Halliday

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