is any one at THR an Eagle Scout

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Eagle in 1972

Order of the Arrow

Philmont as a Scout and a Scouter

Currently Weblos Den Leader
 
Maybe we need a "Stolen Valor Act" for Scouting.
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Yeah, I'd hate to be casually strolling in to Walmart on a fine Spring Saturday morning and have a bunch of Boy Scouts tackle me and kick my ass for fraudulently wearing a Rifle and Shotgun Shooting merit badge on my IDPA shooting vest. :eek:

Damn that would really wreck my day! :uhoh:
 
walker944: "Yeah, I'd hate to be casually strolling in to Walmart on a fine Spring Saturday morning and have a bunch of Boy Scouts tackle me and kick my ass for fraudulently wearing a Rifle and Shotgun Shooting merit badge on my IDPA shooting vest. Damn that would really wreck my day!"

I wouldn't tackle such a person, but I'd assume something had gone ... very wrong ... somewhere. I shudder to think how many Apollo missions the resume of such an individual might reflect.
 
I'm the Committee Chairman for my son's old troop ( http://www.troop518.us/ ) which we started with in 1996, and he made Eagle at in 2001. I make sure that each year that our troop has at least one shooting outing so we can take these pampered 'city slicker' kids out and make some noise. It's their favorite outing.

BTW... All you Scout Leaders.... take notice of the free NSSF patch Scouts can earn to enhance their shooting outings. There's a new patch every year. Many of my boys have 2 or 3 sewn to their uniform. Your Scouts will love this!

This program starts March 1 of every year. CLICK HERE for the 2008 program rules.
 
Hey, now your hitting home....

I shudder to think how many Apollo missions the resume of such an individual might reflect.
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I have a neice that's a space crew secretary at NASA...so, yep, she's fronted me a few mission patches. :rolleyes:
 
Eagle Scout, somewhere around 1990. I'm pretty sure I got the rifle and shotgun merit badges. We went on camp outs about 10 times a year, and guns were always there. :)
 
Not gonna lie i'm kinda a Boy Scout nerd haha.

Got Eagle in '06, Vigil spring of 08 (my vigil name is Netopolis which translates to warrior) I'm the Scoutcraft Director at the local BSA camp (camp dittmer) and I'm the vice chief of our OA lodge. Probably sleep on the ground more than I sleep in a bed and I wouldn't live any other way haha.
 
I have great respect for Boy Scouts who actually practice what they profess. When I left the Boy Scouts, I was very upset with the way my troop was run and it turned me off to everything the scouts did, except for the really cool stuff. So I joined the Civil Air Patrol and did some freaking cool stuff there.
 
I got mine in '92. I don't think about it much now, but reading through this thread reminded me of how much I got from the experience.

The Wilderness Survival and First Aid stuff was the best, I thought. We did a 50 miler each summer. It would alternate between hiking and canoeing.

Those guys had us on ropes, and on 100 foot rocks, by age 11.

Come to think of it, I think I owe a few 'thank yous' to some folks.......

Bob
 
I am an Eagle Scout, also.

Was awarded mine in Spring of 1982. One of the best things I could have ever done with my time and life. Get to list it on my applications for jobs, etc....

It is the only rank that is retained once you enter adulthood. Once an Eagle Scout...always an Eagle Scout.

By the way, my three younger brothers each earned their Eagle Scout rank, too. Goes to say my parents were big supporters of the Boy Scout program.
 
I was an industrious little Boyscout when I was of the age range. However, I had one little procrastination habit that cost me the joy of being Eagle. I never had any of the "review meetings" (where one would show off that they actually could perform and/or were certified in everything in the rank's section) ever signed off on. I forget the exact reasons now, but I do remember just advancing myself to the next rank's list as soon as I was done with the previous. I went on like this all the way to Eagle, and even completed an Eagle project ... but was still the rank of Tenderfoot at the time. It just never seemed important to me to pester the "adults" who's responsibility it was to review me. In hindsight I realized what a complete mistake this was. Somewhere in my storage area there is a Boy Scouts of America handbook with my name on it. The contents of which have been almost completely filled in inside the rank page, minus the reviews. To this day I regret and remember with embarrassment that I didn't take the final necessary steps at each stage. :banghead: At the time it didn't seem like a big deal, after all, I KNEW I had done and could do everything that had been thrown at me. Everything but confront my own procrastinating self. :eek:
 
Its kinda silly. I could have been I did all the work but never doccumented most of it. I dont know why I did that. Just being a kid I guess.
 
My first post here at THR-

Eagle Scout with 3 palms 1979

Currently a Webelo's Den Leader

Future: Proud dad of two eagles scouts (or so they tell me)


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I was kicked out of Cub Scouts....does that count?
I was told that I didn't attend enough meetings to make those sock puppets, tin-can planters, and pinewood derby cars. I was too busy enjoying roaming the woods, camping, etc. Never was much of a team player.
 
Some, even most, of the best Scouts I knew never made Eagle. I did, but only under some parental compulsion. It's an administrative/political thing, much like John Kerry getting his three Purple Hearts for paper cuts, IMNSHO. You have to go in there and get the paperwork done. If you don't, you can't call yourself an Eagle, even if you "just didn't document it." Those of us who reluctantly did, can bitch a little about that process. I started THREE Eagle projects. I finally stumbled onto the concept that if the local PD was involved, especially with an ambitious then-Sergeant, later Lieutenant, and eventually Chief of Police lending his name to the thing, Troop, District and Council fops would have a harder time turning it down. Those guys hated me, but eventually had to pin me. How I eventually went OA is a much more amusing story.
 
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