Scout Promise

Every week thousands of Boy Scouts across America vow to keep themselves “morally straight” as they recite the final line of the Boy Scout Oath: “[I promise] to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” Unfortunately, many of the Boy Scouts of America’s critics claim Scouting has lost its moral standard. When the Boy Scout National Council decided to remove its ban on homosexual boys and adults, Christians began to ponder the ethics of supporting Scouting. While some…

an Eagle Scout and an active Assistant Scoutmaster with the Boy Scouts of America, what I believe to be the best leadership training program in the US. One serves in several leadership roles to earn this rank. To meet these requirements, I was an Instructor for two years and a Troop Guide for three. Instructors are in charge of groups of one to three Scouts for skills tutoring. The Troop Guide leads the instructors and teaches large group lessons to first years. We had over 25 new Scouts two of…

In the Wind Ensemble, I play the trombone. It is a very easy instrument to play because there are only seven slide positions to remember. The only problem I have with playing the trombone is how much space you need to play it. Every day, people get too close to the trombone players, so we have to ask them to move forward or deal with it. The people we ask will move will move most of the time, but if they don't, we trombone players always have slides to do the work for us.Marching band is…

Joining the Cub Scouts program in first grade put me on track to join the Boy Scouts of America, which at age eleven, I transitioned into, thus beginning my journey towards achieving the coveted pinnacle of the scouting program: Eagle Scout. Obtaining the Eagle rank is a long and difficult process, building within the scout strong traits of leadership, teamwork, and individual growth mindset, because progression is up to the scout. If it’s something they really want, then they will go after it…

From my beginning as a Wolf Scout to my current promotion as an Eagle Scout, the Scouting program has always existed as a fundamental aspect of my life that has largely shaped my morals and personality. The picture above represents not only a culmination of the hard work that I have dedicated towards achieving a great honor, but also a large influence that has helped guide me through life. Through every campout, service project, fundraiser, and planning conference, Scouting constantly helped me…

about cub scouts. My dad and i came up to the booth to get more information and from that point i started cub scouts. I started as a webelo 1 in cub scouts from that once a year passed i became a webelo 2. Now cub scouts is coming to an end and i will began my journey as a boy scout. I start out as a scout working my way up the ranks performing to the best of my ability to become a tenderfoot. As i camp and complete merit badges i rank up slowly but steadily, now i’m a 1st class scout and i have…

Clean, and Reverent. These twelve words may not mean a thing to most people, but to people like me across the world it is a promise we made at a young age. Sir Baden Powel in England founded Boy Scouts. It was based on morals and militaristic order to teach children how to learn new skills and how to act with good morals. After it transferred to the United States the Boy Scouts of America mirrored its British counterpart. The traditions that drove the organization since the 1800’s continued…

It was many years ago that I found myself to be away from home the first time. I was a cub scout then and was super nervous. I was always super cautious and wary of dangers hiding behind the corner. I thought that something would jump out and scare me, or drag me to my doom. I felt more comfortable being at home versus being in the wilderness, where I felt exposed to the unknown and maybe the wrath of mother nature. Home made me feel safe, and in those days camping tended to make me uneasy due…

inform you that my son, Alexander Christopher Danish, who has been involved in scouting since 2009 in Troop 63, in Brielle, New Jersey, has achieved the rank of Eagle Scout, Scouting’s highest rank in Fall 2017. On March 19, 2018, we shall be conducting his Eagle Court of Honor. Would you please be so kind as to send this worthy Eagle Scout a letter of congratulations, along with any other items you wish to be presented to him during his Court of Honor? We will see that it is presented to…

Boy Scouts was initially something that I never truly expected to enter my life. The most exposure I had of it was cartoonish representations that I would see in the funnies section of the newspaper or spoofs of the organization in my daily cartoons. This all changed when my friend one day invited me over to one of the weekly meetings. I was a little scared at first, a group of people I didn’t know was frightening to my middle school self. But for some reason; I’m not sure now if it was the…