Eagle Scouts

[Brewpastor]

We need to design a homebrewing merit badge, maybe a whole series: Brewing, all grain, equipment building, judging, sampling....

 

[fifelee]

So what was everyone's project?

Because I grew up in the sticks and it is hard for individuals to recycle, I built a shed in the middle of our town for people to drop off recyclables. The scouts then take it in every few months for cash. I think the parents now spend double on fuel than what they get from the recycling.

 

[Brewpastor]

I built a nature trail at Wilson's Creek National Battlefield (Civil War) and restored a log cabin at the site.

 

[jjasghar]

So what was everyone's project?

mine was really geeky.... i networked my school. we needed a computer network and well i did it

 

[Craig5_12]

Another Eagle and OOA here... for some reason I knew that Yuri was an eagle scout. Good to see that there are so many of us interested in homebrewing.

the two other guys that started brewing with me are eagle scouts as well! Birds of a feather I guess....

I built a dugout and fence at the local ballfield for my project....

 

[98EXL]

I built a dugout

"you put your weed in it!"

I built a big-ass fence around some 100 something year old trees in a state park = gay but got me my Eagle

 

[Short Drive]

I painted my church.

 

[Pirate Ale]

Eagle Scout in 88. OA, Senior patrol leader, assistant scout master, dad got silver beaver. I just chased local beaver...

Loved it, want to do it again, hope my son is interested.

Project: Lanscaped my church.

 

[Brewpastor]

Damn, I worked too hard on my project.

 

[Baron von BeeGee]

Eagle Scout and OA in the '87-88 region or thereabouts. Built a storage shed for our sponsoring church which I think was essentially to get the scouts out of a closet inside the church (didn't look good when we came back from a camping trip Sunday around service time).

 

[Chairman Cheyco]

In Canada we call them Chief Scouts, and we also don't do a project, but instead do a certain number of hours of 'community service.' Most of mine were working for the Canadian Red Cross.

 

[fifelee]

mine was really geeky.... i networked my school. we needed a computer network and well i did it

Actually I think that is awesome. I shows scouting isn't just about tying knots and making fire.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Was a "beaver" when I was a kid. When I was 17 I joined the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves. Was a Radio Op.

Wanted to join regular force and become a helicopter pilot, but at the time my eyesight wasn't good enough for that, so I went to college instead. Heh, felt weird being in "the military" while still in high school.

Friends in HS: "What did you do on the weekend? We played basketball then got pissed drunk."
Me: "Uh, I blew the $hit out of targets with 7.62mm rounds, then got really drunk with a bunch of 30 year olds at Oktoberfest on base. Then got up at 6am and blew the $hit out of more things in between rounds of puking in the bushes. Oh, and somehow I lost my contact lenses." (might have been the dual fisting pitchers of beer...)

Basic training was fun. Almost blew off my leg with a t-flare. Got the flu/sars in the middle of our final exercise. Since no one wanted me to leave the exercise and thus not pass basic.. They fed me a LOT of cough syrup. Just happened it contained DMX (you know the stuff people trip out on) and I was hallucinating half the time. Great fun on night exercises. I think some heads rolled when we got back to base when the base Dr. saw me. I'm not really sure. I was bed ridden for 3 weeks and passed out during the graduation ceremony. To this day I don't know what the hell the visiting brass said to me when he shook my hand because I couldn't hear anything. ahhhhh... good times.

I'm not sure if I should discuss the time some of the members of my section found pot growing in the woods during an exercise in basic and proceeded to decorate the cam netting with the leaves and ate the buds. I ended up doing the whole navigation course for the whole section since most were body stoned...

God Damn. Was basic really 18 years ago?

 

[Flyin' Lion]

God Damn. Was basic really 18 years ago?

Denny, you're another one of those that I always assume is in his mid-forties, but we are the same age; I don't know why, I just do.

Your basic sounds so much better than mine, although mine was only 11 years ago when all the fun with beer and pot entered the zero tolerance policies.

 

[98EXL]

Actually I think that is awesome. I shows scouting isn't just about tying knots and making fire.

wait, you mean to tell me I did all of that to not build big fires all the time?

 

[WortMonger]

I was an Eagle with Angus's Army, Troop 4 in Ada, OK
We had a scout bus named the green weeny. Got my Eagle right before I turned 18. I put my project off forever. There are a lot of us on here, I didn't think there would be this many. How bout those scout shorts huh? I think they were made in Canada, and the second you put them on they want to go back north.
John W. Lowry, Jr. '93

 

[jdoiv]

Made Life and OA. Went to Philmont. Turned 16, got a car, a job, and girlfriend and just didn't have the time to do Eagle. Grandfather earned a Silver Beaver that is now on the shelf of my study. Loved the scouts, but was more interested in camping than earning badges.

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Denny, you're another one of those that I always assume is in his mid-forties, but we are the same age; I don't know why, I just do.

Your basic sounds so much better than mine, although mine was only 11 years ago when all the fun with beer and pot entered the zero tolerance policies.

Oh great, now I even SEEM older! lol

I just did things younger.

 

[Brewpastor]

Oh great, now I even SEEM older! lol

I just did things younger.

Born in 1972 is never older. Jeez, I was 13 when you were born. I think I will go take a nap now...

 

[Denny's Evil Concoctions]

Born in 1972 is never older. Jeez, I was 13 when you were born. I think I will go take a nap now...

I feel MUCH better now! Thanks Brewpastor.

 

[98EXL]

Anyone take part in the National Eagle Scout Honor Roll that they (NESA.org) put together?

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Wow, hadn't seen this thread before. If you're talking about that postcard asking to call them, then yes, I called and answered a few questions. Didn't buy the book or whatever, but I updated my "profile" with them.

 

[98EXL]

I'm still on the fence about the book, but I still thought this was interesting nonetheless

 

[ShortSnoutBrewing]

Wasn't the directory like $200 or something?

 

[sjvicker]

I am an Eagle Scout.. couldn't get my drivers license until i got it.. was great motivation...

Same here.

 

[98EXL]

I was told a book and CD was $100, but just the book was $20 less

 

[FishinDave07]

Eagle Scout here...with a potential future girl scout. I've got 3 younger brothers, all in boy scouts, and younger sister in girl scouts. Did OA for a while but found i didn't like it. Philmont was a BLAST.:rockin:

 

[brauhaus]

wow, you guys are like a disease.

i was in 4-H... yeah.. raised dairy cows... hehe.

 

[EdWort]

Made it to Life scout and OOA myself. My dad never really encouraged me, but I was in from 11 years old till I aged out at 18. My son will get is Star rank at the end of summer. He can't drive till he gets his Eagle.

I just finished my Wood Badge ticket my self. Any Wood Badge grads here?

 

[olllllo]

Philmont, OOA, Life.