Scouting America, formerly Boy Scouts of America (BSA), unveiled a newly revised Aviation merit badge, aimed at sparking youth interest in aviation.
Those very color and sex diverse individuals in the photo are WAY too old to be scouts!
“Explorers” are scouts between ages of 10 and 20. It’s another step up after the traditional Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts. Typically they’re more focused on a particular discipline (cars, or computers, or aviation) and less so on camping. Explorer posts were coed starting in 1971.
Back in the day I was a member of Explorer Post 747 (cool number for an aviation post). We had our own Cessna 172.
More can be found here: About Us - Exploring.org
When the “Scouting America” word salad stops, the “Boy Scouts of America” can return to their focus of training and educating young men in a broad spectrum of skills and knowledge!! It’s time to move on from the “neutering” of this once great organization!
“The newly revised Aviation merit badge is aimed at sparking youth interest in the aviation industry”
I worked with several scouts on their aviation merit badge in the past and none of them had secondary sexual characteristics nor were they shaving. I also did it for helping the kids and NOT for “the industry”. The focus in the past was to learn and have fun; NOT to go after yutes to create new industry worker bees.
“Word salad” is not the problem. This “once great organization” neutered themselves by hiding pedophiles instead of kicking them out and turning them over to the police. They ended up paying $2.4 BILLION in damages as a result.
You would make Allen Ginsberg proud!