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Boy Scout Troop 163
(Succasunna, New Jersey)
 
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Scouting Fun Facts


Boy Scouts Fun Facts:

•   Only 5% of Boy Scouts earn the rank of Eagle Scout every year.

•   Of the 294 US astronauts, more than 180 had been Boy Scouts in their youth; 40 were Eagle Scouts.

•   11 of the 12 astronauts who walked on the moon were Scouts.

•   In 2004, there were 3,145,331 boys in the program and 1,173,064 leaders.

•   One third of West Point and Air Force Academy cadets were in Boy Scouts. 14% were Eagle Scouts.

•   The badges most often earned are: First Aid, Swimming, Cooking, Camping, and Citizenship in the Community.

•   40% of the members of the 111th Congress were in Scouts.

•   In 2009, more than 2.8 million Boy Scouts participated in community service projects. The 36.7 million service hours the Scouts provided, were valued at $764 million!

 

Famous Boys Scouts:

•   Charles Lindbergh (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award for distinguished service to youth)

•   Walt Disney (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)

•   Normal Rockwell (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)

•   Baseball legends Hank Aaron (Life Scout*, awarded the Silver Buffalo Award) and Nolan Ryan

•   Olympic athletes Dan Jansen, Bruce Jenner, Mark Spitz

•   Bob Hope (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)

•   Vince Lombardi (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)

•   Charles M. Schultz (awarded the Silver Buffalo Award)

•   Astronauts Neil Armstrong (Eagle Scout, awarded the Silver Buffalo Award) and John Glenn

•   Walter Cronkite, journalist (Eagle Scout)

•   Mike Rowe, star of “Dirty Jobs” (Eagle Scout)

•   Actors Jimmy Stewart, John Heder (Eagle Scout), Ashton Kutcher, Richard Dean Anderson, Harrison Ford, Richard Gere, Henry Fonda, Jerry Mathers, John Ritter, John Schneider

 •   Filmmakers Steven Spielberg (Eagle Scout) and Michael Moore (Eagle Scout)

•   Recording Artists Jimmy Buffett, Branford Marsalis, Jim Morrison

•   Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft

•   Samuel Walton, founder of Wal-Mart (Eagle Scout)

•   Presidents Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon B. Johnson, Gerald Ford (Eagle Scout), Jimmy Carter, John F. Kennedy, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama

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