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Scouts remember... https://dfw.cbslocal.com/2019/07/13/eagle-scouts-remember-ross-perot-after-his-death/ Scout Salute

Been there, wasn't happy either. https://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/2019/07/12/eagle-scout-project-destroyed-dunbar-cave-state-park/1698007001/

OP story freely available https://www.allergicliving.com/2019/07/12/boy-scout-rescued-in-wilderness-after-severe-food-allergy-reaction/

Scouts on a sailing trip rescue stranded couple in waters off Florida Keys. see video of rescue by scouts in their sailboat and Coast Guard. https://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/Montgomery-County-Boy-Scouts-Rescue-Stranded-Couple-Off-Florida_Philadelphia-512655982.html

Scout leader gives his side of story... Brandon Jones is one of the Boy Scout leaders and said they made this trip with Boy Scouts three years ago with no issues — this time they found themselves in a “tough" situation. Once the canoes were flipped upright again, Jones said the boys continued on their way. The trip required canoeing and camping for a few days, and the boys made it all in their handmade canoes. “This is about turning young men into men and giving them life experiences,” Jones said. “I think they learned some valuable lessons that when life throws you some curveballs and you can get by.” More including video at source: https://fox13now.com/2019/07/12/boy-scouts-in-handmade-canoes-caught-in-green-river-how-they-got-out/

2013? "The purpose of the BSA’s National Camp Accreditation Program (NCAP) is to help councils elevate camps to new levels of excellence in delivering Scouting’s promise to youth . Councils will engage in rigorous review of camps and properties, continuous improvement, and correction or elimination of substandard practices .In addition to the national camp standards, the NCAP involves three separate but interrelated cycles that both support the standards and ensure that camps meet continuous improvement goals: (1) the multiyear Authorization Cycle; (2) the continuous camp improvement program, which has multiyear and annual components; and (3) the annual Assessment and Accreditation Cycle . The annual cycles started in 2013 and the multiyear cycle will be phased in from 2013 through 2016 ." https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/outdoor program/pdf/430-056.pdf https://www.scouting.org/outdoor-programs/camp-accreditation/

Sgt. Vetere said the homemade canoes had “no business” on the river especially with the conditions of the water running a little high even for commercial canoes with experienced canoers. Sheriff Greg Funk emphasized that those planning on being on the river in Emery County should do their research, know their limitations and be prepared. Officials said the total time of the rescue was three hours and all were accounted for. Now the beginning of this story is amusing as the source link tells it. Can a sheriff spank a scoutmaster? https://www.abc4.com/news/southern-utah/scout-groups-rescued-after-cannoeing-trip-gone-wrong/

Speaking of Ten Mile River Scout camp His Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio, Bishop of Brooklyn, arrives at Ten Mile River Scout camp. We need leaders, we have plenty of followers...God calls us not when we are old, but when we are young...

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So far in my time, just one such camp incident and the camp staff handled it, completely, discreetly,and efficiently which included machine washing and drying bags and clothes. Cots and platform were also disinfected. Other scouts never knew. Troop went to program . Many troops bring one or two spare sleeping bags to camp and most camps also have spare bags. A blue tarp across tent platform floor comes in handy.

Rescuers airlifted one Boy Scout, hand-carried out another and provided water to a handful of others after a group doing trail maintenance ran into heat and medical issues outside Camp Geronimo recently. One of the boys was having trouble breathing and appeared to have heat stroke so “out of an abundance of caution” was airlifted from the trail for medical treatment, Pitterle said. Another boy was also having heat issues and TRSAR volunteers carried him out on a wheeled litter. TRSAR hauled water up for the rest of the group and they were able to walk out safely, he said. https://www.paysonroundup.com/news/local/boy-scouts-rescued-from-trail/article_9aacebce-ed73-5eb5-8cb9-dc91359e08a4.html

@JohnNovack welcome to scouter.com. To be fair, I edited your post as I was unable to verify the information you presented. - RS

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I would hope a more accurate description would take hold. The offender is now an expelled/dismissed/defrocked Eagle Scout who can never again be a member of Scouting, BSA.

Update 7/6/2019: The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Ohio is seeking help finding the victims of a Boy Scout official accused of taking video of children changing. Thomas Close, 40, of Shelby, is currently facing charges of sexual exploitation of children and receiving and distributing child pornography in locations that included Sandusky and Wakeman, according to court documents. The U.S. Attorney’s Office is now asking anyone who suspects they or their children were recorded by Close to email their contact information to Homeland Security Investigations at HSI-CLOSE-Investigation@ice.dhs.gov and attach a photo of the child in question that was taken around the years Close would have access to the child, according to a news release According to an affidavit filed in the case: Homeland Security Investigations agents received information from the Cyber Crimes Center regarding videos taken of minor boys changing before or after swimming at the YMCA in Sandusky. A review of several videos revealed they were recorded at the YMCA facility in Sandusky, which sometimes rented its pool to the Boy Scouts, inside teepees used at the Firelands Scout Reservation in Wakeman, as well as inside the bathroom of a home that appeared to have a swimming pool. Investigators met with Boy Scouts of America officials in Cleveland (Aug, 2018 - RS ), whose area includes seven counties. Due to the fact that all of the photos appear to revolve around changing before or after swimming, Boy Scout officials alerted investigators to an incident report from June (2017 - RS) documenting an occurrence at the Firelands Scout Reservation they felt could be related, the release said. The report was made by a den leader regarding a Boy Scouts of America staff member named Thomas Close, also known as “Aqua Joe,” according to the affidavit. Source: https://www.morningjournal.com/news/crime/u-s-attorney-seeks-victims-of-sandusky-wakeman-boy-scout/article_df9977ba-9f47-11e9-aa90-1f0f81ab9192.html

Not that I am aware. Maybe as a start, anyone designated an Ineligible Volunteer ("Perversion Files") and is found to be an Eagle has that rank rescinded? My $0.02,

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Back in the day, I don't remember such a plaque. At the end of the trail, we bought Philmont belts with the iconic buckle.

I found this news story about starting a Ship, please add posts regarding starting a Ship. Eagle Scout Bill Murphey has been involved with the Boy Scouts of America since the 1970s...Growing up on the Jersey Shore, Murphey has also put in more than 40 years on the water, sailing and racing on the Barnegat Bay. He always wondered why there had never been a Sea Scouts chapter established on the South Jersey shore. Recently, Murphey found a prophesy in a box of his grandfather’s memorabilia, where he discovered photos of his great uncle, John Wood, a sea scout in North Jersey. The photographs were of a cruise Wood took with Sea Scout Ship 117 in the year 1914. Coincidentally, Murphey’s junior sailing group at the Barnegat Bay Yacht Club is group 117. So, when Capt. Pat Geiger reached out to recruit him to a Sea Scouts ship in Little Egg Harbor, Murphey climbed aboard with enthusiasm, suggesting they take on the augural ship number. “I thought, someone’s going to lead this ship, and it might as well be me,” Murphey chuckled. Just like that, he became skipper of Sea Scout Ship 117, which comprises about a dozen male and female scouts and, according to Geiger, will be chartered by the West Creek Volunteer Fire Co. Geiger stated that Eagle Scouts Todd and Paul Lund had done most of the work, and were already holding meetings before recruiting any adults. “Pretty impressive for our local Eagle Scouts,” Geiger praised. The scouts elected Geiger as their executive officer, Todd Lund Sr. as committee chairman, Virginia Lund as treasurer, and named several mates including Lou Foster and Capt. Robert Meseck. ... continued with history, crew interviews, and program at news source: https://www.thesandpaper.net/p/all-aboard-teens-form-first-sea-scouts-chapter-in-ocean-county/1819868 P.S. According to First Mate Foster, the ship is responsible for organizing and executing a long cruise. Their first goal is a 14-mile cruise to Atlantic City on Independence Day. If they achieve this goal, they will sail out to Atlantic City, tie up to watch the fireworks, and sail back. Murphey said he expects overnight trips by this August.

Update on construction of 2,800 acre Camp Strake which is near Huntsville, TX at edge of Sam Houston National Forest. Scheduled to open summer 2020. 28 acre man-made lake STEM center, 450 seat dining hall, 9000sq ft Grand Pavilion, total of 66 structures photos, including aerial photo https://www.houstonchronicle.com/business/bizfeed/article/Construction-progresses-at-Camp-Strake-campsite-14063649.php

Charles McGee turned 22 on the day the U.S. entered World War II. At the time, he was an engineering major at the University of Illinois. Eleven months later, McGee left Champaign-Urbana for Alabama to train with a group of Army Air Corps cadets who would become some of the first black fighter pilots in the country, now known as the legendary Tuskegee Airmen. He went on to fly 136 combat missions in WWII with the all-black 332nd Fighter Group, also known as the “Red Tails.” Later, he commanded fighter-bomber, support and training squadrons and was the first black commander of a stateside Air Force wing and base. When he retired as a colonel after a 30-year Air Force career, McGee had a total of 6,308 flight hours — 1,151 of those in combat — and had completed 409 combat missions in three wars, a record that still stands. And, he’s the only fighter pilot to have flown 100 or more combat missions in WWII, Korea and Vietnam. McGee excelled in school and was active in Boy Scouts, later earning the rank of Eagle Scout. ... When retired U.S. Air Force Col. Charles E. McGee speaks to young people as an ambassador of the legendary Tuskegee Airmen, he encourages them “to ignore negativity, rise above their challenges and follow their dreams.” McGee — who completed 409 combat missions in World War II and the Korean and Vietnam wars — says he does that by sharing his story and talking about the four P’s. Prestige. “Dream your dreams, Find what your talents are and what you like doing. You don’t want to go to work every day and not enjoy it. Prepare. “Learn to read, write and speak well. Get your education and develop those talents you discovered.” Perform. “Always do your best and have excellence as your goal.” Persevere. “Don’t let the circumstances be an excuse for not achieving. More more at source: https://www.news-gazette.com/news/trailblazing-tuskegee-airman-life-s-been-a-blessing/article_56ac9194-007d-59d2-bf4c-0ccab3ea87f1.html Scout Salute,

We moderators are still discussing this locked topic... in a scoutlike way. Meanwhile, a local council named their annual Distinguished Citizen, attorney Thomas Rath. Noting the Scout motto’s attention to good citizenship and moral character, Rath said the country as a whole needs to pay attention. We are, he said, in a dark place, where civil discourse has been replaced by discord. ...we know better and can do better in terms of conducting ourselves ... That can start at the next town meeting, or the next school board meeting, he said. He cited both Republican and Democrat lawmakers in New Hampshire who have been able to disagree without being disagreeable and have being able to work together as a result. Inspiring words, those, and very much needed. Congratulations to Rath and to the Daniel Webster Council for continuing to prepare Scouts “to do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.” https://www.unionleader.com/opinion/editorials/we-know-better-inspiring-words-at-boy-scout-event/article_a85cb44e-35a0-5a48-902e-234cfc1338a8.html RS

Source: http://www.wrde.com/news-article/9232.htm

Update June 26, 2019: ...Eight-year-old scout Alex Ostendorff recalled seeing the lightning from his parents’ vehicle. “When the lighting struck, it was more like an explosion than a bolt … and then there was a lot of steam,” he said. “It looked like a bomb went off.” “After it struck, it kind of put our car up on two wheels,” he added. Although Alex said he thinks he may camp again, he doesn’t want to go back to Balsam Mountain Campground. “It scared me very much,” he said. “I cried I was so scared.” “After that, when I went home, I couldn’t get the vision out of my head, and it was really scary,” he added. Dave Crowder and Cubmaster Blair Bishop were in Bishop’s truck when the lightning struck. Crowder, a Marine Corps veteran, said the sound and the flash of light was akin to a mortar round exploding. Bishop agreed, adding that it arced overtop of the truck. “The frame is bent where the lightning hit my truck … and the tires were melted in places,” he said. “It appeared that it blew the asphalt out of the ground.” Likewise, Crowder saw the sheer power of the bolt another way. “Her umbrella, part of it was just vaporized,” he said of the mother who was injured. Once Crowder noticed Wijewickrama and the mother had been hit, his instincts kicked in, and once he saw the mother come to her feet under her own power, he applied first aid to Wijewickrama. “I went to check Roy’s pulse, and his jacket was wrapped around his neck so I cut that off,” he said. “He started talking, so obviously he was breathing. Then we got him up on his feet.” Wijewickrama was reaching for his truck’s door when the lightning struck. Had he been in contact with the truck, he likely wouldn’t have survived the incident. Cell reception in the remote Heintooga area is spotty, so it was quicker for cub scout parents to evacuate the victims themselves than call an ambulance and wait for it to get there. Within minutes, Bishop was driving Wijewickrama to the Haywood Regional Medical Center in Crowder’s truck, and not long after, Crowder used his wife’s car to take the injured mother and members of Wijewickrama’s family to the hospital, as well. Once he had cell reception, Crowder called the hospital to let them know they would be receiving two victims injured in the lightning strike. Wijewickrama was transferred to Mission Hospital, where he is still being held. Both are expected to recover. More at source: https://www.themountaineer.com/news/witnesses-recall-horrific-lightning-strike-incident/article_44c1c2f2-9744-11e9-ba25-dbeb0b53356e.html

Well done Brian!