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Welcome to Troop 445!

We would love to have you join our Troop!  Take a look at this page, and at the rest of our website and see what you think of our program.  After that, come visit in person with an adult.  That is the best way to find out about Troop 445.

There are a few requirements to become a Boy Scout, but they are not that hard...

Meet Age Requirements...
Be a boy who has completed the fifth grade or is 11 years old, or has earned the Arrow of Light Award but is under 18 years old.
Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
Find a Scout Troop near your home...  We hope that it is Troop 445!!
Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance
Demonstrate the Scout Sign, Salute, and Handshake
Demonstrate tying the Square Knot (a joining knot)
Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise, the Scout Law, the Scout Motto, the Scout Slogan, and the Outdoor Code.
Describe the Scout Badge
Complete the pamphlet exercises
With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse:  A Parent's Guide - located in the front of the Boy Scout Handbook.
Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
Turn in your Boy Scout application and health history form signed by your parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster Conference.

 

The Pledge of Allegiance

I pledge allegiance to the flag
of the United States of America,
and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.

Click Here to hear Red Skelton on the Pledge of Allegiance

The Scout Oath or Promise

On my honor I will do my best
to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the Scout Law;
To help other people at all times;  
To keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.

The Scout Law

A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, 
helpful, friendly, courteous, 
kind, obedient, cheerful, 
thrifty, brave, clean, 
and reverent.
The Scout Motto

Be Prepared.

 The Scout Slogan

Do a good turn daily.

 The Outdoor Code

As an American, I will do my best to be clean in my outdoor manners,
be careful with fire,
be considerate in the outdoors,
and be conservation-minded.

 

 The Scout Badge
The badge is shaped like the north point on an old compass.  The shape resembles an arrowhead or a trefoil - a flower with 3 leaves, also known as the fleur-de-lis.
The three points of the trefoil stand for the three parts of the Scout Oath.
The eagle and shield stand for the freedom and a Scout's readiness to defend that freedom.
There are two stars on the badge.  They symbolize truth and knowledge.
The shape of the Scout badge means that a Scout can point the right way in lafe as truly as does a compass in the field.
The scroll bearing the Scout motto is turned up at the ends as a reminder that a Scout smiles as he does his duty.
The knot at the bottom of the scroll represents the Scout slogan, Do a Good Turn Daily.

taken from the Boy Scout Handbook...

Requirements taken from the Boy Scout Handbook, 11th edition.
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