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Yah these two right here, you hit the nail on the head, I haven’t been involved since the 90’s but yah, elegantly put. Not sure where they go from here though…i wonder if the military culture and trump coziness dies with an administration change or if just ends up being another pipeline for young kids to get funneled into the military. I also remember that religion was optional. I did the Ad Altare Dei program, but I don’t remember it being mandatory but that was also several decades ago lol.
AFAIK, the religious awards have always been optional. I think only one guy in my troop ever bothered to earn it. Officially as long as you're willing to say you believe in some sort of higher power that satisfies their religious requirement, but some troops can end up being pretty Bible-thumpy
Unfortunately they've always been pretty cozy with the military, being an eagle scout gets you a little bit of a rank or pay bump or something if you enlist, and they lend the scouts some equipment and manpower when needed for big events like the jamboree, so that pipeline has already kind of existed for a long time and it's sort of on-line with what Baden-Powell Intended the scout movement to be- a tool to help prepare kids for military service.
But of course that's not really what I took away from scouting, and it just doesn't really feel like what it should be about in today's world to me, so I wouldn't mind seeing that relationship falling apart.
Yah good points, I guess it all depends on where you are physically at in scouting...location makes a difference. I must of been childishly naive at the time as I never put two and two together to connect the dots on the military pipeline...the more I think about it though, it makes sense.