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EAGLE SCOUT REQUIREMENTS

  1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout.
  2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life. (Page 170)
  3. Earn 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 Lifesaving, (h) Environmental Science, (i) Personal Management, (j) Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling, (k) Camping, and (1) Family Life.* (Pages 188-93)
  4. While a Life Scout. serve actively for a period of 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility: [Pages 169, 172) Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, historian, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, or instructor. Varsity Scout team. Captain, cocaptain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary. Order of the Arrow team representative, historian, librarian, quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor, or den chief. Venturing crew/Sea Scout ship. President, vice president, secretary, treasurer, boatswain, boatswain's mate, yeoman, purser, or storekeeper.