The United States congress was currently embroiled in turmoil over the southern border, and the ongoing Mexican Revolution. Reports showed that men armed with old Winchester rifles had left a trail of blood and bodies in their wake.
And if these rumors were to be true, they appeared oddly organized and trained, better than even the remnants of the old federal army. Their equipment was lightweight, capable of being moved rapidly via horseback, and was ideal for the terrain they were fighting in.
They carried repeating rifles chambered in modern calibers, and revolvers suspiciously similar to current-issue U.S. designs. Their arsenals also included heavy machine guns lifted straight from old German blueprints, lightweight man-portable mortars—proven in the Great War, and finally lightweight and rapid firing 75mm field guns that oddly enough looked like sanitized and modernized German 7.5 cm FK 16 nA.
