The Senior Patrol Leader is elected by the Scouts to represent them as the top youth leader. He runs all troop meetings, events, activities. He appoints other troop youth leaders with the advice and counsel of the Scoutmaster. The Assistant Senior Patrol Leader is the second Highest-ranking youth leader. He is appointed by the SPL with the approval of the Scoutmaster. He will provide leadership to other youth leaders as well. The Patrol Leader, is elected leader to his patrol. He represents …show more content…
They teach young men the way the Native Americans would do things in old manners. What I mean by that is they teach you to survive without using technology. You start a fire with leaves and sticks, you cut would with an ax, you fish with just a stick and some string and worms you find in the ground. You camp in tents, with no electricity. You cook on open fires and you are taught that if you take water and boil it then you are able to drink it. They teach you how to use the land to survive. The Native Americans also would follow animals in order to survive. Birds made good alarms for something that might be coming. As a Boy Scout you learn what the different kinds of birds there are and how they act. Not all of the Boy Scout culture is based of Native Americans, though a heavy portion of it is, there are some European and American culture as well. The leadership culture comes from European ways, while with the American culture is more of a military style. Boy Scouts of America is not a military culture. The clothing that we wear is based off that culture as Class A and Class B. Class A is your fully dressed uniform. Your Class B is a more relaxed comfortable outfit such as a t-shirt and pants. Trying to integrate all these different cultures can be hard at times, but in the end that is what makes the Boy Scouts of America a different type of