Preparation

See Second Class Requirement No. 1.

Examination

The date on which the length-of-service requirement has been fulfilled will be evident from the Troop Roster and attendance record.

In the examination on Badges and Insignia, the Scout may be asked to explain the rank, service and leadership badges of Scouts and Scouters of his own or another Troop, or explain the significance of the various badges from an exhibit of them, possibly at the Local Council Office.

Review

The review may consist of a simple questioning along these lines:

Service—"When did you become a Scout? How long have you been a Second Class Scout? Have you attended Troop and Patrol meetings regularly? What were the most interesting features of each?" Etc.

Badges and Insignia—"How did you meet this requirement?" Etc.

swimmin' hole

There would have been no "old swimmin' hole," if boys had not liked to swim. To learn to swim fifty yards isn't hard the Buddy way.

First Class Requirement No. 2

Swim fifty yards. (Jump overboard, feet first into water slightly over his head, swim twenty-five yards, make a sharp turn about, and return to the starting point).

Object

To create an active interest in swimming and water safety, thus aiding the boy toward physical fitness and preparedness.

Interpretation

This is not a speed requirement. Any stroke or combination of strokes may be used. The insistence on the feet-first-jump is to insure that the Scout has overcome the fright which frequently strikes the beginner on finding himself in deep water in an upright position.

In case only a small pool is at hand, the explanation of the procedure may be interpreted to mean: "... swim fifty yards, including one or more turns as required by the counselor, ..."

Preparation

The way to encourage swimming in the Troop is to make available the facilities for practicing, either in a local swimming pool, or, preferably, in camp under conditions consistent with the nationally prescribed minimum requirements for Swimming and Water Safety (See Chat 30). All swimming instruction should be given under a Senior Life Saver approved by the Local Council.

Examination

The examination is usually made by the instructor of the Scout, and must be performed under conditions as mentioned above. At no time during the examination is the Scout permitted to touch bottom, the side of the pool or of a boat, or any object.

Raising a farm crop

Raising a farm crop is often the beginning of a "love of the lend." The Thrift Requirement may be met this way.

Review

"What is the value of knowing how to swim? Where did you learn? How far can you swim? Where did you meet the requirement? Are you interested in becoming a Life Saver?" Etc.

First Class Requirement No. 3

Earn and deposit at least two dollars in a public bank or other savings institution (U. S. Defense Bonds or Stamps, premiums paid on life insurance are accepted, if earned); or plant, raise and market a farm crop; or earn and contribute at least two dollars or the equivalent to the family budget or to welfare work in the community.

Object, Interpretation. Preparation Examination and Review

See Second Class Requirement No. 9.

First Class Requirement No. 4

Send and receive a message by Semaphore Code, including conventional signs, thirty letters per minute; or by the General Service Code (International Morse), sixteen letters per minute, including conventional signs; or by Indian Sign Language Code, thirty signs per minute; or by the Manual Alphabet for the Deaf, thirty letters per minute.

Object

See Second Class Requirement No. 3.

Interpretation

Again it is recommended that the Morse Code be given first consideration as being the most generally useful method. The requirement calls for "sixteen letters per minute," and not "sixteen letters in a minute," thus specifically insisting on an average speed over several minutes. The Scout is also required to send and receive a complete message, involving the correct use and interpretation of the necessary conventional signs; i.e., the signs used by sender for Attention, proper Call Letters to fit the occasion, Correction, End of Word, End of Message; and signs used by receiver for Ready, Call Letters, Wait a Minute, Stop Sending, Word Received, Message Received.

Sending thirty letters per minute by Semaphore

Sending thirty letters per minute by Semaphore, or sixteen by General Service Code, makes a Scout alert and a quick thinker. It's useful.

Preparation

See Second Class Requirement No. 3.

Examination

Similar to the examination for Second Class, except that the messages should be at least 80 letters (150 for Semaphore), to be completed within five minutes, and should be sent over a distance of at least 200 yards.

Review

"Which code did you use? What did you do to meet the requirement? What is the best speed you have attained in signaling? What use could you make of it?" Etc.

First Class Requirement No. 5

Make a round trip alone (or with another Scout) to a point at least... Beg your pardon, but there are very good reasons why this requirement should be considered after First Class Requirement No. 11, so please turn to the last few pages of this Chat.

First Class Requirement No. 6

First Aid. (a) Tell what First Aid is and what are its limitations.

(b) Review Second Class First Aid requirements including demonstrations.

(c) Show what to do for: (1) frost bitten foot; (2) snake bite on hand; (3) mad dog bite; (4) heat exhaustion and sunstroke, describing difference in appearance.

(d) Tell what to do for: (1) internal poisoning from food or drug; (2) freezing; (3) poisoning caused by poison ivy, poison sumac, or poison oak.

(e) Show how to: (1) use triangular bandage as sling, and as directed for four of the following injuries—head, eye, hand, chest, hip, knee, foot (in each case with dressing over wound); (2) apply splint to broken upper arm and place properly in cravat sling; (3) immobilize broken collar bone; (4) use neckerchief over shoe to support sprained ankle;

To help in accidents

To help in accidents—to be of real service is the aim of Scout training. Scouts learn to Be Prepared through actual practice.

(5) apply finger pressure (digital) to control arterial bleeding of wrist, ankle, and temple;

(6) apply tourniquet on upper arm and upper leg at correct pressure points; and (7) control venous bleeding below knee.

(f) Explain necessity for immediate use of finger pressure control of bleeding; its advantages over tourniquet, and danger and necessary precautions in use of tourniquet.

(g) Demonstrate with another person: (1) four-hand carry and (2) blanket or coat-litter carry; (3) a two-man carry with a chair; (h) with three other persons, method of lifting and transporting through a door and through a narrow passage a man who is unconscious, the Scout himself acting as captain of the team; (5) Fireman's drag.

(h) Describe symptoms of various degrees of shock, when to expect and how to deal with them.

Object

See Second Class Requirement No. 2.

Interpretation

The requirement is very explicit and hardly needs any interpretation. Where Scout is required to show use of triangular bandage "as directed for four of the following injuries: head, eye, hand, chest, hip, knee, foot," he is supnosed to know the treatment of all of them, the actual examination subject to the counselor's choice.

Preparation And Examination

See Second Class Requirement No. 2.

Review

"How did you meet the First Class First Aid Requirement? Did you do all the things required in it? Which did you find hardest to learn? Which easiest?

Advance training

Advance training gives the Scout the basis for effective First Aid when he is called upon to render it.

Have you made practical use of any of them? When?" Etc.