This document outlines a one-year strategy and roadmap for a new Scout to achieve First Class rank. The goals are to master basic Scout skills, complete 6 merit badges including Camping, First Aid, Hiking, Cooking and Orienteering, and improve outdoor survival skills. Tactics include attending a crossover campout, summer camp, and completing requirements at troop meetings and outings over the year.
After: “Unless I have to” All (Loud & w/ Gusto) : Neither are we!!! ASM Young: Otherwise known as, “Why am I driving the tires off my minivan?!”
After: “Assign each New Scout a mentor” Alex: I want Kirklen! Will: I want Keshaun! Thomas: I want Kyle! James Haner: Gimme, Scott! ASM Young: Hang on, guys, I’ll get to that after the Crossover Campout, next week!
After: Able to train other Scouts Cameron: I need all the help I can get to train these new Scouts! After: Outdoor survival Michael: I ain’t their mama or their daddy, either ASM Young: Yeah, but Mr. Thompson, Mr. Pollard, and I had to help you too!
After: Earn 1st Class by this time next year All (Loud & w/ Gusto) : Oh yeah! We did it! Uh-huh!!!
After: Others to earn it by the end of March James Garrard: Mr. Young? You did bring the Scout badges tonight, didn’t you? ASM Young: You bet! They’ll get it when we form the new Scout patrols.
After: Personal fitness test Dean: I just passed mine. It took me a whole year to get this rank! It’s a good thing I finished 2nd Class & most of 1st Class in the mean time! ASM Young: Good thing! Back in my day, we couldn’t work on 1st Class until 2nd Class was complete!
After: Totin’ Chip Will: Where else can you play with knives and axes and get away with it? After: Firem’n Chit Thomas: I’m Sparky! I was the first one to start a fire with flint & steel!
After: Swim test Alex: My dad made me take swimming lessons for 6 months before going to Scout camp so I could pass 1st Class and swim in the deep end of Camp Lumpkin’s pool! ASM Young: You did it though!
After: Attend Summer Camp All (Loud w/ Gusto, Chant) : Summer Camp! Summer Camp! Gotta go to summer camp! ASM Young: There’s no place like Summer Camp to earn a slew of merit badges!
After: Three orienteering races at local State parks James Garrard: It helps if you write the reports after the race. ASM Young: Yeah, you’d have your Orienteering merit badge by now then wouldn’t you James Garrard: But I hate to write! ASM Young: Show me a boy your age who does! After: Backpacking trip at least 4 miles w/ 1000 ft climb TC: Don’t miss this trip! Or, it’ll be another year before you can do it again ASM Young: You’re right! I’d rather not climb a 1000 ft or more than once a year or so myself! Are you ready for the backpacking trip at FDR State Park? TC: When are we going? ASM Young: Stay tuned!
After: CPR Training Caleb: The scene is safe TC: JT, call 911! I’m beginning CPR Seth: Cameron, get an AED! Dean: 1, 2, 3, 4 . . . . . .
After: Local restaurant tour Will: I didn’t know they made freezers that big Thomas: We didn’t stay in there long cause it was -25 degrees James: It was so cold! ASM Young: We didn’t practice our First Aid for hypothermia, did we?
After: Citizenship meeting JT: I’m gonna read every night Seth: Me too! Judge Edwards said it means $600 every night I read until I graduate from high school once I leave college! ASM Young: You didn’t know one of your obligations as a citizen was to read, did you? After: Swimmer ASM Young: Some of you boys made it by the hair of chinny chin chin!
After: Hornaday Unit Award & Badge JT: We’ve never heard of these before ASM Young: I know you haven’t, because we haven’t revealed next year’s program to you yet! Alex: Do we get to go to Gettysburg? ASM Young: Don’t know yet. You wanna go! Alex: Yeah!!! It was a blast at Christmas! ASM Young: Who knows? Maybe we’ll go to Washington DC while we’re at it!
After: Five 10-mile hikes David: We did our first one an Providence Canyon! Cameron: I skipped out on the one at FDR State Park Alex: Yeah, but you joined us at the Everglades Michael: We hiked two 10-mile hikes in one weekend! Will: Then we plotted Camp Thunder with our GPSs After: One 20-mile hike David: We’re doin’ the Silver Comet Trail Cameron: Starting in Smyrna Alex: And heading to Alabama Michael: Down-hill, Thomas: All the way James Haner: Asphalt, so I can wear my tennis shoes! ASM Young: And by the highway, so we can keep you supplied with food and drink!
After: Able to effectively lead a patrol for 4 months ASM Young: Gladiators & Spitting Cobras: What rank are you working on? All (Loud & w/ Gusto): Eagle! By working on Star!!! ASM Young: What rank are the New Scouts working on? All (Loud & w/ Gusto): Eagle! By working on Tenderfoot!!!