Importance Of National Youth Leadership Training

NYLT stands for National Youth Leadership Training. This training is run through Boy Scouts and is a one week long camp. I did this high intensity camp last year and was the hardest thing I did in my life. The day before i left to go i was extremely nervous and was sick that 's how scared I was. For me to be eligible to go to this camp i had to lose 24 pounds in 4 weeks i did it but was extremely hard running multiple times a day and eating so little. I was packing and all that i can bring was whatever i can fit in my Army backpack from my cousin. Trying to fit a week 's worth of supplies and fitting it in the bag was not easy with also bringing spare of almost everything just to be prepared. The most useful tool the list says was my knife for multiple reasons that it can be used for. Once I get the entire backpack filled to the max i put it on my back and it felt like i put a 150 pound rock on my back. I was ready to leave and loaded up the car and had a hour ride a head of me. The whole way there i was praying. I was praying that I would make it and not get hurt. Right when I got to the place I said my final prayer and got out of the car and gave my Stepmom a hug and my dad. They both started to cry and …show more content…
Once everyone was all ready and in the field uniform we started to jog to the commissary for dinner and of course we had the farthest camp from that. it was around a 3 mile jog there in boots. It felt like it took us forever and when we finally made it there we had to get our food. It was the army packets and were like chalk in a bag. We had 5 minutes to eat. This next thing was going to be the hardest things so far because right after we are done eating we have to go to the waterfront and take our swimming test and that consists of swimming a fourth of a mile and jump in with clothes and get a milk jug with concrete in it from a 12 foot part of the