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Merit Badges....
You must be at least a Scout rank to earn a Merit Badge (MB). There are several ways of earning your MB. The Troop sometimes organizes a MB activity where we work on the requirements together. You may also enroll in various MB classes offered at local Boy Scout Councils. Another way to earn a bunch of MBs at once is to attend one of the Boys Scout Summer Camps. You begin by talking to the Scoutmaster about the MB you plan to earn. He will give you advice and a signed Blue Card. Once you have met all the requirements for the Badge, have a MB Counselor sign the Blue Card. Turn in your completed and signed Blue Card to the Scoutmaster. Once you finish reading the MB book, you will be awarded a MB patch.

Rank Advancement...
To advance in rank, you must meet all the requirements specified in your Boy Scout Handbook. Once all of the requirements are signed off, arrange for a conference with the Scoutmaster. Once you've finished your Scoutmaster Conference, call the Advancement Chairman (Mrs. Salinas: 818 951-4819) and schedule a Board of Review. Make sure that your Notebook is up to date and organized before you come to the Board of Review, or you will be turned away. Here are the requirements for each Rank:

Scout

• Meet age requirements
• Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian
• Find a scout troop near your home
• Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance
• Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake
• Demonstrate tying the square knot
• Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise, Law, motto, and slogan, and outdoor code
• Describe the Scout badge
• Complete the pamphlet exercises
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference

Tenderfoot

• Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
• Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop camp out. Sleep in a tent that you helped pitch.
• On the camp out, assist in preparing one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
• Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the end of a rope.
• Demonstrate that you know how to tie the following knots and tell what there uses are: two half hitches and the taut-line hitch.
• Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and crosscountry, during the day and night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
• Demonstrate how to raise, lower, and fold the American flag.
• Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.
• Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.
• Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
• Record your best in the following tests:
  Current Results
  Push-ups_________
  Pull-ups__________
  Sit-ups__________
  Standing long jump(_____feet _____inches)
  1/4-mile walk/run_________
  30 days later
  Push-ups_________
  Pull-ups__________
  Sit-ups__________
  Standing long jump(_____feet _____inches)
  1/4-mile walk/run_________
• Show improvements in the activities listed in requirement above after practicing for 30 days.
• Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
• Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
• Show first aid for the following;
  Simple cuts and scratches
  Blisters on the hand and foot
  Minor burns or scalds(first-degree)
  Poisonous snake bite
  Nosebleed
  Frostbite and sunburn
• Demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath(Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.

Second Class

• Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.
• Using a map and compass together, take a five mile hike(or ten miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.
• Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which include camping overnight.
• On one of these camp outs, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you helped pitch.
• On one camp out, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.
• Use the tool listed in the requirement above to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
• Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
• On one camp out, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the four basic food groups. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how you transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
• Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institute, charted organization, community, or troop activity.
• Participate in an approved (minimum of 1 hour) service project.
• Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.
• Show what to do for "hurry" cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning.
• Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
• Demonstrate first aid for the following:
  Object in the eye
  Bite of suspected rabid animal
  Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fishhook
  Serious burns(second degree)
  Heat exhaustion
  Shock
  Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
• Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
• Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.
• Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines or objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
• Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family.
• Demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Compete your board of review.

First Class

• Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.
• Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
• Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
• Help plan a patrol menu for one camp out-including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner-that includes cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.
• Using the menu planned above, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
• Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
• Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.
• On one camp out, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in the requirement above. Lead in your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
• Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations as a US citizen.
• Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native plants found in your community.
• Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
• Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.
• Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
• Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.
• Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm and the collar bone.
• Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person...
  from a smoke filled room
  with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards
• Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
• Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
• Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.
• Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt, and long sleeve shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants while using them for support.
• With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as a tender and a rescuer (the practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water).
• Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.

Star

• Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout.
• Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Earn 6 merit badges, including any 4 from the required list for Eagle.
• While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.
• While a First Class Scout, serve actively for 4 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop):
  Boy Scout Troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant scoutmaster, chaplain's aid, or instructor.
  Varsity Scout Team.Captain, co-captain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, Order of the Arrow team representative, librarian, historian, quartermaster, chaplain aid, instructor, or den chief.
• Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.

Life

• Be active in your troop for at least 6 months as a Star Scout.
• Demonstrate Scout Spirit by living the Scout Oath(Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Earn 5 more merit badges( so that you have 11 in all), Including any three more from the required list for Eagle.
• While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.
• While Star Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the positions of responsibility listed in requirement 5 for Star Scout(or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop).
• Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.

Eagle

• Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout.
• Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
• Ear a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following (a) First Aid, (b) Citizenship in the Community (c) Citizenship in the Nation, (d) Citizenship in the World, (e) Communications, (f) Personal Fitness, (g) Emergency Preparedness OR Life-saving, (h) Environmental Science, (i) Personal Management, (j) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (k) Camping, and (l) Family Life.
• While a Life Scout, serve actively for a period of 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
  Boy Scout Troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant scoutmaster, chaplain's aid, or instructor.
  Varsity Scout Team. Captain, co-captain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, Order of the Arrow team representative, librarian, historian, quartermaster, chaplain aid, instructor, or den chief.
• While a Life Scout, plan, develop and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to an religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting). The Project idea must be approved by the organization benefiting from the effort, your Scoutmaster and troop committee, and the council or district before you start. You must use the Eagle Scout Leadership Service Project Workbook, BSA publication No. 18-927, in meeting this requirement.
• Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.

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