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- From: johnw@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au (John Wanless)
- Subject: What is an Eagle Scout?
- Message-ID: <johnw.13.715906045@psychnet.psychol.utas.edu.au>
- Sender: news@newsroom.utas.edu.au
- Organization: Psychology Department, University of Tasmania
- Date: Mon, 7 Sep 1992 22:47:25 GMT
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- To Fellow Scouters,
- Would someone explain your training schemes over there in
- the USA. Reading this group and someone says that they are an Eagle Scout
- doesn't mean anything to me in Tasmania(Australian state) unless I can
- relate it to our own training requirements.In each section here, giving
- Scout Leaders as an example, they have to do an orientation or 3A as some
- call it which consists of a weekend camp with probably 4-6 instructors
- taking 1/2 hour sessions on all aspects of what a leader is required to
- do with his Troop. The next phase is called 3B and consists of two
- weekends with the instructors going in to greater detail on what was
- taught the first weekend. This also includes a practical component of a
- hike and overnight camp with bushcraft needed to construct the campsite,
- ie, "table & chairs" and prepare a 3 course meal, judged by an
- instructor. After this weekend if all goes well you are issued with
- a "Warrant", which indicates that you have completed all the training
- required. The "Warrant" is not owned by you and can be withdrawn at any
- time if you leave the service or "conduct" is not at the high standard
- required.
- Further stage 4 training is available and once this is completed after two
- weekends with more practical and a project about some fundamentals of
- Scouting and completed over a three month period and taking more than 10
- hours (more like 30 hours it took me). Once this is passed into your
- supervisor and assessed then the District Commissioner is informed and you
- are recommended for a Wood Badge only after he has assessed you for a
- further 3 months and is "happy" with the way you run the Troop. The Wood
- Badge consists of a couple of wooden beads modelled of the beads given by
- the Chief in Kiplings book of the Jungle Boy, I think thats how the story
- goes.Anyway that a very brief description of our training perhaps we can get
- others to give us their descriptions?Yours in Scouting,
- John Wanless
- Venturer Leader (ex Scout Leader)
-