I am an Eagle Scout and this video does not make anyone tougher than a boy scout. My Scoutmaster always said the number one rule of scouting is fun. Scouting teaches you how to work with others and many life lessons. It is more than having ten items in the woods.
In our case it was a combination of both. For a firefighting badge, we had to take less than 20 seconds to get our shirt off, roll our shorts up and socks down, before stomping a pile of burning hay out with our boots. Kids from country areas who had worked on farms had no problems, but those from the city often failed to fully put the hay out, mainly because they did not know how to put the embers out with their hands. They also did not realise that rolling their shorts up was to prevent the edges from catching alight, or embers getting inside them. For safety reasons while camping we wore 100% cotton canvas combat shorts of cut off denim jeans. We also had to wear pure wool socks, Scouting taught us a lot about common sense that is quite rare these days and no one ever got seriously hurt.
@@wilsjane Honestly I never received that merit badge, I received my Eagle scout in 2010 and am from Southern California, lots of hikes lots of camping lots of swimming but we were not taught anything about putting out a forest fire or the like, just basic fire safety when it comes to fire pits, and not leaving any embers lit. The hardest one for me was the swimming merit badge, We had to swim a mile out off the coast of Catalina at 4 in the morning in November, get a tag off a Canoe and bring it back to the beach otherwise we were not allowed to swim in the ocean for the week at Emerald Bay
@@PuzzlingChap Living in California, putting a few fires out would be perforable to swimming out to sea to avoid them. Most of the fires are caused by people not putting campfires or burning grass out before it spreads. Another thing we had to do was beat the fires out with our denim shirts or jackets.
...The biggest reason you signed up for this is to prove that you could have been an Eagle Scout? Sorry, buddy, but as an Eagle Scout I can personally attest to the fact that it takes a lot more than packing the ten essentials to be an Eagle Scout. This show does not, cannot, will not prove anything in that regard.
Why post 20+ videos when you can you just post one episode. Flooding my feed man. Think it's time to unsubscribe. Natgeo stopped posting cool stuff long time of ago. Now this channel is just their advertising channel.
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I am an Eagle Scout and this video does not make anyone tougher than a boy scout. My Scoutmaster always said the number one rule of scouting is fun. Scouting teaches you how to work with others and many life lessons. It is more than having ten items in the woods.
You will never forget what you've learned, achieving Eagle Scout.
I had been a scout for eight years and I can tell you that it's a mixture of both hell and heaven.
Agreed
Agreed
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Great show!
its not about toughness its about discipline
In our case it was a combination of both. For a firefighting badge, we had to take less than 20 seconds to get our shirt off, roll our shorts up and socks down, before stomping a pile of burning hay out with our boots.
Kids from country areas who had worked on farms had no problems, but those from the city often failed to fully put the hay out, mainly because they did not know how to put the embers out with their hands. They also did not realise that rolling their shorts up was to prevent the edges from catching alight, or embers getting inside them.
For safety reasons while camping we wore 100% cotton canvas combat shorts of cut off denim jeans. We also had to wear pure wool socks,
Scouting taught us a lot about common sense that is quite rare these days and no one ever got seriously hurt.
@@wilsjanethank you sir
@@PuzzlingChap When you come across a grass fire, do you just roll your shorts up and stomp it out before it gets above knee high.?
@@wilsjane Honestly I never received that merit badge, I received my Eagle scout in 2010 and am from Southern California, lots of hikes lots of camping lots of swimming but we were not taught anything about putting out a forest fire or the like, just basic fire safety when it comes to fire pits, and not leaving any embers lit. The hardest one for me was the swimming merit badge, We had to swim a mile out off the coast of Catalina at 4 in the morning in November, get a tag off a Canoe and bring it back to the beach otherwise we were not allowed to swim in the ocean for the week at Emerald Bay
@@PuzzlingChap Living in California, putting a few fires out would be perforable to swimming out to sea to avoid them.
Most of the fires are caused by people not putting campfires or burning grass out before it spreads.
Another thing we had to do was beat the fires out with our denim shirts or jackets.
You obviously have never gone to survival class. Whistle is to allow you to communicate with searchers. Perhaps you should attend one.
I'm a first class scout and boy scouts are this stricked
Depends on the troop.
@@StevenTheAristolianNerdi second this
Should have a whistle
...The biggest reason you signed up for this is to prove that you could have been an Eagle Scout? Sorry, buddy, but as an Eagle Scout I can personally attest to the fact that it takes a lot more than packing the ten essentials to be an Eagle Scout. This show does not, cannot, will not prove anything in that regard.
Thank you sir, making Eagle was as strenuous as anything ive attempted.
And I'm now a chemical technician, for reference.
i just need one thing..... DUCT TAPE
Why post 20+ videos when you can you just post one episode. Flooding my feed man. Think it's time to unsubscribe. Natgeo stopped posting cool stuff long time of ago. Now this channel is just their advertising channel.
good video
Is that lee Torno?
fuck all those maps, compases water bottles and stoves. The 1 essential tool is a knife, which is the only thing I carry into the wild
cool and all, but you have to admit, it should be a full-tang stainless steel 90degree spined knife right?
You could also use a decent analogue watch, so you can tell the time and use as a compass.
They should add some way to purify water in the 10 essentials.
paintballtech my troop wants you to have a life straw or purification tablets
@@gabemello363 I thought typically you'd just boil water, and save the life straw/tabs for when that's impractical.
i am eagle scout
stop spamming my feed.
@Stuffthatsfunny1 why, in case a bear tries to rape them?
hahahha!