Anyone an Eagle Scout?

Halworks

Halworks

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I am an Eagle Scout. I got my Eagle in 2002. I just figured most Eagle Scouts are smart and smart people use RAT knives. So post away. Even if you were not an Eagle how high did you get in Scouts (boy or girl scouts)?
 
I only got to Second or First class. We were more about camping and having fun. I do kinda wish I'd have buckled down more and worked harder to advance.

Just got my 8 yr old son signed up for Cub Scouts too.
 
Eagle Scout and I think I had a Bronze palm. Scouts was great but I wish I had made even more of the experience. We got our year round camping award three consecutive years. It stings my conscience a little when I consider that I camped for 36 consecutive months as a kid but I don't get out as frequently as I'd like now that I have kids of my own.
 
There's an Eagle Scout group here I believe.

It's a good thing to get done. :thumbup:
 
DMD08 said:
Eagle Scout and I think I had a Bronze palm. Scouts was great but I wish I had made even more of the experience. We got our year round camping award three consecutive years. It stings my conscience a little when I consider that I camped for 36 consecutive months as a kid but I don't get out as frequently as I'd like now that I have kids of my own.
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I know what ya mean. I go camping a 1/3 of what I did when I was in scouts
 
1996 here. We did alot of camping as well. We used to tent year round in new York. Wish it were easier to keep up the once a month pace. Great experiances
 
04/14/2004 is when I passed my Eagle Scout board of review. Went on to earn bronze, silver, and gold palms...


I've gone back to meetings since then and it just isn't the same :( The kids and parents make it not fun anymore...
 
I made it to Life, then got too interested in getting laid and getting drunk to get my service project done on time.

Most of the time I really regret not going through with it...but when I look back at those memories...it is pretty hard to feel bad about it.

I would have regretted NOT doing what I was doing too...
 
to bad to say, but in my region any form of scouts are kind of a joke as far as i know. they only do stupid things like throwing mudballs at each other, push each other into a filthy pond or see who can stuff the most marshmellows in a coke bottle :thumbdn:. just about anything to annoy the group leaders. i've never even tried being part of it, these are just the stories my brother came home with. he held out 6 months :rolleyes:. when my 2 rats arrive im gonna go into the woods with my brother to do my own lil scouting thing :cool:
 
I made Eagle on August 11, 2004. I wish I had the time to go camping like I did back then. I was gone nearly every weekend...
 
I came close, just had to write up the citizenship and safety merit badges. But various people were planning to make a very big deal out of it, which was very uncool back when, so I retired at Life. I don't feel bad about it. What ticked me off was I missed out on a major Sea Scout program which was just a bit too far away at the time. Their Quartermaster program looked like a much bigger accomplishment esp if you got your Eagle to go with it.
 
Side bar: For the younger Eagle Scouts make sure you place this information on job applications and college apps. As a teacher (who writes many letters of recommendation) I believe potential employers and universities place importance on this rank. Be proud...you earned it...let them know.
T
 
clearytja said:
Side bar: For the younger Eagle Scouts make sure you place this information on job applications and college apps. As a teacher (who writes many letters of recommendation) I believe potential employers and universities place importance on this rank. Be proud...you earned it...let them know.
T
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This is very true. It has worked for me.
 
I got into scouts in the 80s with cub scouts and a little bit of boy scouts. It was already starting to become pretty lame by those days. We spent more time making cutting boards for our mommies than we did learning any actual useful survival or outdoors skills.

Like everything else in this country, it's becoming more and more sissified. I wouldn't be surprised if a majority of scouts these days don't even own a knife :thumbdn:

I'm sure there are folks around these boards who get involved with their local scouts and actually teach them something meaningful about the woods, but for every one of us, there are ten suburban parents who think "roughing it" is sleeping in a cabin with no TV.
 
MustardMan said:
I'm sure there are folks around these boards who get involved with their local scouts and actually teach them something meaningful about the woods, but for every one of us, there are ten suburban parents who think "roughing it" is sleeping in a cabin with no TV.
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While it sounds like many of us had good experiences, I'm sure there is much truth in your words. The scouting program has slowly been backing off wilderness skills, and going into...well god knows what. The idea that a non-locking SAK is safer than a fixed blade knife is the kind of ridiculous bullshit I couldn't stand. I'd carry the Camillius boy scout lock back around camp, but took a 5 inch Buck pathfinder whenever we went into the woods. Never had too much trouble, but they need to get over that fixed blade issue. Hell, I think the RC 3 should get a nice scout logo and get issued to scouts after their crossing over. Don't see them letting that one happen though.

Best thing to do if you're looking for a good involved troop, is visit the area council HQ. Tell them what you're looking for, and they should be able to set you up. Or ask them when the next camporee is in the area, and go talk to the kids sleeping in the canvas baker's tents with the stack of dutch ovens by the fire. Don't be afraid to ask for a list of recently earned merit badges. Other things to checkout are how much the boys plan themselves, and what influence the adults exert; what type of food they're cooking on campouts (really? you guys are doing hotdogs and hamburgers again? or worse, I've seen some troops order pizzas!); and the dead-set most telling is what type of boots the kids are wearing.
 
Order pizzas, thats funny. My scoutmaster was hard-core there is no way he would let us do that. One year at scout camp, I ate PB&J for every meal for a week. Somebody told me I couldn't do it, so I had to prove them wrong.
 
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