Troop Quotations

I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

Working with Troop A, we were successful in getting the Senate to approve a plan that would protect our first responders and prevent highway fatalities, ... Dozens of police officers and fire fighters have lost their lives in accidents that should have been avoidable. Our initiative instructs the Department of Transportation to develop model legislation that will increase awareness and help save lives.

Montana is one big playground for scouts. I don't think you'll find a Boy Scout troop with more camping opportunities than Troop 17.

I have always been an avid cyclist, and when my friend mentioned a bike tour, I thought it was a perfect idea. I presented it to our troop committee and it has snowballed since.

I don't think people are talking about doubling or tripling the overall troop contingent, but rather trying to make sure that everybody is doing what they can.

He remembered the troop ship that he went over on. I don't think he ever talked about the troop ship he came back on.

Our hearts are really saddened for her other troop members and the other families.

Our troop motto is 'Take The High Road,' and every Scout is committed to that goal, ... That means being involved in the community as much as possible. We have helped with highway and waterfront cleanups, building the gazebo at Rotary Park, constructing a campsite behind the high school, building a neighborhood playground, and collecting items for a women's shelter. We feel you can never do too much to give back to your community.

Reports of a troop build up are a complete fabrication. We reject such statements in their totality and restraint should be exercised by the spokesman on the Pakistan side.

Troop contributors do provide soldiers on a voluntary basis and they can withdraw them when they feel it's appropriate.

The President will take from his commanders their assessment of what the conditions permit, what Iraqi security forces are capable of doing, and then determine troop levels,

We were reinforcing our troop presence in South Korea and had other military options on the table.

This troop has been together since they were Daisies. We do a lot of community service with the Valley Parish Nurse Program.

It would be great to never have (Camp Flying Eagle) developed forever. Scouts need a place like Camp Flying Eagle. It brings my troop back to nature.

The silverback is in charge. As the young males mature into blackbacks (adolescents), they begin to challenge the silverbacks. He runs them out of the troop and the blackbacks live a bachelor's life until they mature into silverbacks and establish their own groups.

Osama Bin Laden is dead. Killed not by a massive troop deployment but by a commando raid carried out by a few dozen highly trained men and helicopters.

A sagging economy, a soaring national debt, and an increasingly restive Congress pushed Obama to order troop reductions that are both deeper and faster than recommended by his military commanders.

This is an authorized troop movement. There is no reason to fear.

There's been no discussions about any troop adjustment in Europe. And it would be wrong to inject that into the discussion, and cause tremors unnecessarily and inaccurately,

As we have already said, the troop reduction will be based on conditions, and one of the important conditions is this election, which will be the latest in a series of political developments.

It is urgent that ... we establish a force that has both the troop strength, the equipment and an unambiguous mandate to protect civilians from harm.

It's the reality of a situation like this that when you have a large troop presence that it has the tendency to fuel the insurgency because they can make the incorrect and unfair claim that somehow the United States is here to occupy this country, which of course is not true.

It's basically a troop call from the chairman. Some commanders will have latitude to let their troops come out and take part in the event. But it'll be based on the ops tempo for that particular unit.

It's quite an irony that we're commemorating martial law and we see that the militarist mind-set is so deep in this administration, ... The standard response to protest actions are massive troop and police deployment. These things are obviously intended to intimidate people, short of what Marcos did in 1972.

Dad was a Scout, but got back into it through my troop when I joined, and he never quit again. Dad was always helpful and thoughtful. He was a clever problem-solver. He could also design buildings and make sure they got built. He had a knack for fixing and building things. He was always puttering around the house with his tools.

Each scout makes about 21 percent of the fresh fillets the sell. The troop holds that money in a special account and then when the time comes we'll use it to send them to camp.

I started mountain climbing with the troop in Southern California when I was 12. I thought I'd do it indefinitely, but then I found other challenges.

If the number of weapons handed in doesn't reach 25 percent, let's say only 20 percent, then the number of troop (reinforcements) that will be withdrawn will also be the same, 20 percent,

In the context of the troop we're able to have our own culture.

In the Scouts, we learn a lot about construction. The entire troop will probably help out because we usually pitch in on one another's projects. Even the Scout graduates come in if we need them.

Cindy Sheehan, who are just encouraging the terrorists, endangering our men and women in uniform, and lowering troop morale with their antics.

The troop is under full control, adhering to the chain of command.

The current administration is not one to announce large-scale troop reductions.

On the 31st of October, at ten o'clock in the morning, the troop disembarked on the quays of Tampa Town; and one may imagine the activity which pervaded that little town, whose population was thus doubled in a single day.

Even today, the administration submitted a report to Congress on troop training that again failed to set out a plan,

Farewell the tranquil mind; farewell content!Farewell the plumed troop and the big warsThat make ambition virtue!