Thornton (in Delaware County, PA) Populated Place Profile. Thornton (GNIS FID: 1204811) is a populated place located within the Township of Thornbury, a minor civil division (MCD) of Delaware County. The elevation of Thornton is 459 feet. Thornton appears on the West Chester U.S. Geological Survey Map. Delaware County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours).
Tennessee Highway Patrol. The Tennessee Highway Patrol (THP) is the highway patrol agency and de facto state police organization for the U.S. state of Tennessee, responsible for enforcing all federal and state laws relating to traffic on the state's federal and state highways.
Reconnaissance patrols are one of the most reliable means for obtaining this information. These patrols engage the enemy only when necessary to accomplish their mission or for protection. They generally avoid combat, accomplish the mission by stealth, and do not maintain contact with the unit that sent them out. A reconnaissance patrol should be kept to the mini-mum number of personnel required to accomplish the mission. A mission requiring a patrol to remain away from its unit for a considerable period of time, or one requiring a patrol to send back information by mes-senger, increases the size of the patrol. Recon-