Seen can be different types of boats, troop transport boats, gunboats, supply boats, etc.

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The 2, 200-passenger liner also was meant to double as a troop transport ship if war broke out.

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In June 1945, 102 died in a train crash in Assling, south of Munich, when an American troop transport train crashed into a train carrying German prisoners of war.

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In January, the administration invoked a nonproliferation law to stop the European Defense, Aerospace and Space Company (EADS) from selling its C-295 troop transport aircraft to Caracas, citing the planes' many American-made components.

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Pte Hutchinson, 23, of County Durham, known as "Hutch", was a driver with the Theatre Logistic Group's Transport Troop, based at Chippenham, Wiltshire.

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Two British military transport aircraft have been assigned to help with the French troop deployment, but no British forces will be in a combat role, the UK Foreign Office said.

CNN: January 16, 2013 -- Updated 1835 GMT (0235 HKT)