i was in cub scouts for about 2 months. it was fun.

 

Troop 22 Jacksonville Florida

 

I was and loved wearing the uniform.

 

My father in law was/is an eagle scout and so was a friend of mine. When I was younger I didn't see much value in it, but of course I do now.

 

I still am... (as a young leader though)

 

yep!

http://www.survivalistboards.com/arm...t&uniqueid=464

 

a cub scout.

 

39 years later still a scout (Eagle Scout )and prepared. It can be a way of life.

 

Yup,

Troop 736, Wheatridge Colorado
And the first scout troop to attend the Wilderness Institute of Survival Education or W.I.S.E. founded by Bob Wise who was one of the developers of the Air Force Survival Training Program.

 

Oh yes, most of what I know about the outdoors I learned in Scouts, and it's saved my ass plenty of times.

 

I would agree with that statement.....Life Scout, Troop 250....Assistant Patrol Leader, Patrol Leader, Assistant Senior Patrol Leader, Senior Patrol Leader, Junior Assistant Scout Master.....Philmont Ranch 1978, Order of the Arrow......also an Assistant Pack Master for my son's Cub pack for a while....

 

I got very lucky and was in a very active troop. Camping trips every other weekend for the mostpart.

I quit too early unfortunately. 1st class and patrol leader, but that's as far as I got. Definitely have followed the "Be Prepared" motto though. I'm always the one that has stuff no one ever thinks about on trips.

 

Yep,Troop 301,83-89,Eagle Scout,now a Den Leader for Pack 170,hoping my son will follow through with Scouting so I can be along beside him,this is one of the last great programs for our youth that can allow the whole family to be involved in,instead of setting on the sideline cheering someone on.BP always.

 

Troop 19, St. James Espicopal Church, Upper Montclair, NJ. We went camping once a month, every month, regardless of weather. It was awesome. I went to BSA camp in the Adirondacks every year.

For one year, I was the SPL: Senior Patrol Leader! I think I was also a JASM, before I went rogue and moved to the woodlands of central Vermont, to live with my fellow hippies.

I had to stop with scouting when I "woke up" politically. I now refuse to support, in any way shape or form, any organization that treats gay people as second class citizens.

Tom.

 

Yeah

Troop 229, Selden, New York. Life Scout. Senior Patrol Leader. National Jamboree, Valley Forge, 1964. Philmont Scout Ranch. Summer scout camp every year. Order of the Arrow.

Loved it, but...

I now refuse to support, in any way, shape or form, any organization that treats (anyone) as second class citizens.
Tom.

We had a scout master who eventually was thrown out because he wanted girls and boys in one troop. Before being tossed he had a meeting in his house where he showed off his drawings of nude women. We had another guy who tried to recruit scouts into a specific church and who flipped out, screaming at kids for cooking in aluminum foil. Had another guy, former USMC, who forced the kids to set up tents in company streets, ignoring the terrain and sentencing them to sleeping in puddles when it rained. When we were housed in a Catholic church, our hosts tried to force the troop to require all the kids to be Catholic.

Scout values and skills have stuck with me all my life, including the American values of fairness, inclusiveness, and equality, but especially "Be Prepared." But, as in so many areas of life, leaders emerged who ignored those values and used the scouts for their own weird purposes.

 

No never was a boy scout. I was raised back in the woods hunting, fishing,and trapping. And been doing it every since.

 

I once went with a friend to a Boy Scout meeting to check it out when I was young-teen age and was kicked out of the meeting for discussing a perfectly valid way of starting a fire while camping in the rain. Didn't see any reason after that to be interested.

 

you drove strait off the cliff with that one Hoss...........

 

No. But I 2was a Sea Cadet, NJROTC and JROTC.

 

Believe it or not, I was a boyscout. When I was a kid, our local boyscout troop's main focus was square dancing and they allowed girls in for the purpose of the boys not having to dance with other boys. Seems that boys' egos are pretty fragile at that age.

Imagine my father's shock when my boy scout membership card came in the mail with his DAUGHTER'S name on it, LOL!

 

Cub scout,boy scout,adventure scout,army cadets,in that order.

 

French Canadian version out west. Les Loufteau which translates as wolf cubs.

 

Boy Scouts

I was in Troop 346, St. George Espicopal Church. In San Antonio Texas.

When it's kids they are called the boy or girl scouts. When it's adults we are called Survivalists.:

 

Troop 22, McClellan Air Forse Base, Sacramento, CA. We were sponsored by the Sergeants Association on the base. Back during the later stages of Viet Nam, we used to get all knds of cool stuff "donated" by the Air Force, web gear, tents, ponchos, first aid kits and survival gear. I remember one week they gave us a bunch of firstaid gear and they forgot to take out the morphine. The Sr. Patrol Leader scooped them up and had them waiting the next week when the red faced airman came to pick them up.

Greatest experience of my life was 12 days on the trail at Philmont Scout Ranch in New Mexico

 

Holy Boy scouts Batman!!! That is a high percentage! Don't include me in there.

 

I'm an eagle scout......... :

 

Yes I was.