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Scout troop
Basic organizational unit of Scouting / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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]
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Scout troop | |||
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![]() 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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