There was an A Troop, B Troop, C Troop, etc. But they definitely picked "F" for the reason we think they did.
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sharePerhaps the troop that "earned the worst possible grade", or "flunked".
shareUp to the viewer maybe? I always thought school and fail.
shareRight, that's just what I thought, too.
But now it makes you wonder why the cast calls the fort "F Troop" because that must mean that they know that there's room for improvement but it just doesn't get any better than this.
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I agree - vague enough to get by the censors and the adults could explain it to the kids as in school's f grade.
shareBecause the companies in a regiment were given letters, A, B, C, D, and so on.
From the 1880s each company or troop of cavalry carried a swallow tailed two colored flag, a guidon, with the number of the regiment above and the letter of the troop below. You can see those guidons, as well as many inaccurate or anachronistic ones, in Western cavalry movies.
Every cavalry regiment or battalion within a regiment, with more than five companies has an F Troop. In those days a cavalry regiment had 12 companies which ere lettered up to M, the letter J being omitted because it looked too similar to I.
the popular song "The Regular Army, Oh" by Harrigan and Hart https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=the+regular+army+oh+song
has lyrics mentioning gallant company Q. In those days company Q was army slang for a punishment detail. So if the writers of F Troop had wanted to be historically fitting they could have called the show Company Q.
F = Foolish
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shareFoul ,Fool ,Flaky ,Floundering ,Forgetful ,Far-Out ,Failure.
I agree ,it's all up to the viewers.
(Sorry ,no 'bad F word' from me. )
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I remind everyone that "troop" in the cavalry means company, just as "battery" in the artillery means company. Any American military unit with six or more companies will have a Company F.
In the American Civil War there were thousands of infantry regiments with ten companies, thus including a Company F. And a few hundred cavalry regiments with twelve companies, thus including a Company F.
I believe that in the modern US army companies are much larger than they were in those days, and that the army is mostly made of battalions which usually have three to five companies each, and modern soldiers might only be used to companies, A, B, C, D, & E, and might think of a Company F as imaginary.
But in the old days every cavalry regiment had a Company F, or Troop F.
F stands for Friday, the day of the week this was on in its original run.
share[quote] F stands for Friday, the day of the week this was on in its original run.
Dude, with all due respect, that really is a dumb answer.
You really think they formulated the idea for the show and wrote the first scripts and hired all the actors with the knowledge that the network would run it on Friday?
Fuck Troop.