# THE SECOND FIELD BATTALION

THE SECOND FIELD BATTALION Produced: 1917 Description On activities on the Mexican border at Brownsville, Tex. Shows mounted troops and pack mules, carrying radio equipment, on a march. Troops mount and dismount as signals are given, gallop their horses, and stand inspection. Horses are harnessed and saddled. Phone wire is unreeled from wire wagons. The wire is anchored around a tree and spliced to wire from a switchboard. Messages are received and transcribed. The switchboard is dismantled and the wire gathered. https://catalog.archives.gov/id/35494

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1917
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/111-m-119)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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