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Pentagon warns Scouts: Ban girls or we will pull your funding
(www.telegraph.co.uk)
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I love how they tag this minor detail onto the very end where they have to publicly justify it to congress rather than just doing whatever autocratic whim they feel like.
Watch them do it anyway. Who's gonna stop them?
Why does the military have anything to do with scouts?
If you get eagle scout you get a small raise when you join the military, same as if you had an associates degree.
You recieve the same bonus for a few different things. I think the girl scouts gold award and sea scouts quartermaster award give the same enlistment rank bonus.
Well yes, because all of those are certificates of auxiliary training befitting a soldier.
Scouts does do a really good job of preparing kids for the military if they so choose. Many of the hard and soft skills it teaches are very military-esque. Or put another way, I was chatting with another parent who's oldest just joined the military at 18 and they said the training is just like scouts and credited scouts with preparing them well for the military
I was a scout, nah. We camped and helped old ladies at nursing homes.
Sort of depends on your troop. As a young teenager we had to endure winter survivalist training which included building usable sleeping quarters in the sub-zero snow and spending the night in them, by yourself. Yes you could come back to the main building but you failed at the training if you did. Actual chance of freezing. They gave you a styrofoam cup half full of chili but otherwise you were on your own for sustenance too, including water. It did give me a sense of independence, but also a fear of the cold.
It's not really teaching Boys to Scout, it's a program that is Scouting for Boys who are likely to do well in situations similar to the military, albeit a less modern one than exists today.
If deployed in significant numbers those skills are almost as useful in a modern military as a century or two before. An Ukrainian or the Russian soldier didn't need those skills in the barracks or having guard shifts in well supplied garrisons, but it is sure nice to know now.