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[[File:K Troop 9th Cavalry detail.jpg|thumb|K Troop, [[9th Cavalry Regiment (United States)|9th U.S. Cavalry]]]]

A '''troop''' is a [[military]] [[sub-subunit]], originally a small formation of [[cavalry]], subordinate to a [[Squadron (cavalry)|squadron]]. In many armies a troop is the equivalent element to the [[infantry]] [[section (military unit)|section]] or [[platoon]]. Exceptions are the [[US Cavalry]] and the [[King's Troop Royal Horse Artillery]] where a troop is a subunit comparable to an infantry [[Company (military unit)|company]] or [[artillery battery]]. Historically the remainder of the [[Royal Horse Artillery]] used the term ''troop'' in the same manner but they eventually aligned with the rest of the [[Royal Regiment of Artillery]] in referring to troops as subordinate to artillery batteries.

''Troops'' is often used to refer to the other members of one's company or cause, but because of its military connotations, it conveys a particularly altruistic type of dedicated worker. Traditionally, ''troops'' refers to the soldiers in a military.

A cavalry soldier of [[Private (rank)|private rank]] is called a "[[trooper (rank)|trooper]]" in many [[The Commonwealth|Commonwealth]] armies (abbreviated "Tpr", not to be confused with "trouper").  

A related sense of the term, ''troops'' refers to members of the military collectively, as in "the troops"; see [[Troop (disambiguation)]].