Scout troop

Scout troop
A Boy Scouts of America troop at a national Scout jamboree in 1977.
Country	Worldwide
Founded	1907
Founder	Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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A Scout troop is a term adopted into use with Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and the Scout Movement to describe their basic units. The term troop echoes a group of mounted scouts in the military or an expedition and follows the terms cavalry, mounted infantry and mounted police use for organizational units.^[1]