It started back in first grade when my school invited the local Cub Scout pack to hold a demonstration on activities they do in Cub Scouts such as camping, hiking, and canoeing. This encounter showed me at an early age, that scouting is about having fun in the wilderness and giving back. I remember my first Cub Scout meeting, it began with everyone reciting the scout oath followed by the pledge of allegiance, which led to a demonstration of knot tying where we learned how to tie the square knot. My love for scouting was born.
Next, let’s fast forward to the fifth grade when it was finally time to transition into Boy Scouts. The transition came and my love for scouting grew to an all time high. In scouting the Scout Law is strongly idolized by all and soon became the words I live by. The Scout Law is “A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent."
After my first year of scouts I was able to finish the first 3 ranks of Boy Scouts which consist of Scout, Tenderfoot, and Second Class. During this year, my role in the troop was a patrol member which
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The rank of Life Scout means that you are now not only an expert in the outdoors and in all of the skills taught in Boy Scouts, but that you also show excellent leadership qualities and are prepared to run for certain positions in the troop. This now began my change from member to leader. It started out with me as a patrol leader and teaching a small group of scouts the requirements asked of them in the scout handbook. After 6 months I was elected to be the leader of our entire troop, Senior Patrol Leader. By being the leader my duties consist of the troop meeting plans, the outings we experience together, and the scouts in our troop. I remained leader for a year and 6 months and then began focusing on the highest rank in scouting, Eagle
As an Eagle Scout candidate, my ambition is to serve others while pursuing a life of prosperity, happiness, and leadership, whether it is through education, religious duties, scouting, or careers. My life purpose is to be seen as a model or leader to others while remaining satisfied with my current situations in life. I resolve to stay resilient through any obstacles thrown in my path to achieve my ambitions and life purpose. I will strive to be respected by those that know me in all of the things I participated through leading from behind (following the principles of servile leadership) and applying all that I have learned over the years in Scouts and my life in general.
After I completed new cadet training (NCT) at my previous school, New York Military Academy (NYMA), I was immediately selected to be the squad leader of ten girls. This was my first leadership position that I have ever undertook in a JROTC program. My role as a squad leader was to directly deal with my squad in order to get our duties completed daily for the success of our company. Some of my specific duties were to check their GI ( designated chores), rooms, uniform, and to take control of them during formations. During my time at NYMA, I have learned that leadership is not just delegating and giving orders. I have learned how not only to be a good squad leader, but in doing so, how to be a role model, trainer, mentor, and friend.
Everything for a year had been leading up to this point and here I was in the middle of the happiest place on earth in tears because my friends had abandoned me in the middle of Disney on the senior trip.
My leadership can expect a top tier performer who strives to be one of the most competent Non-commissioned Officer’s within the unit. I will do this by adhering to the regulations, unit sop’s and any other guidance which governs my section. I will ensure my soldiers do the same, holding them to strict but attainable standards and expecting nothing less. I will teach, coach, counsel, and mentor these soldiers-teaching them what a leader is and grooming them to be leaders also.
There are more than 135 merit badges, and any Boy Scout may earn any of these at any time. The merit badge counselor is a key player in the Boy Scout advancement program. Whatever your area of expertise or interest—whether it is a special craft or hobby (basketry, leatherwork, coin collecting), a profession (veterinary medicine, aviation, engineering), or perhaps a life skill (cooking, personal management, communications)—as a merit badge counselor, you can play a vital role in stirring a young man's curiosity about that particular topic. By serving as a merit badge counselor, you offer your time, knowledge, and other resources so that Scouts can explore a topic of interest.
All soldiers, especially leaders, are highly recommended to keep a certain set of values that radiate throughout the entire U.S. Army. They are challenged to keep them near and dear to their hearts and to define and live them every day. A leader is one who takes these challenges serious and abides by
We all know that ROTC is about leadership. But what is leadership? What does leadership mean? And how can you become a leader? John Quincy Adams once said, "If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." Honestly when I decided to transfer to UTC and register for ROTC, I was thinking “what am I getting myself into?” I always had passion for the military, but I couldn’t believe I was wavering a Track and Field scholarship to join an organization I hardly knew anything about, apart from commercials, documentaries and films. However, the more I think about it, the more I realize that during the past two years I’ve learned so much about myself and the qualities it takes to become a great leader and a great person.
Being a leader is no simple task. During my Eagle Scout project, I lead a range of people, from adults to youth. It was my job to make sure everyone was working and, that everyone was capable of doing their task. I had many issues doing this throughout my project because I am only one person and I can’t be everywhere at once. Thusly made being a leader a drudgery. But I had an incredible set of adults guiding me along the way, who taught me that being a leader was not doing everything myself, being a leader
Involvement in marching band, field hockey, and various other activities has given me many opportunities to show leadership. My first leadership opportunity was in eighth grade when I became a WEB leader. While I was a WEB leader, I helped incoming sixth graders get adjusted to middle school life and find their classes on the first day. I also met up with the sixth graders in my group once a month at lunch and got to know them while I asked how school was going and helped them with any issues they had. In marching band, this past season I was a marching captain for my section. I helped the freshmen learn to march, demonstrated proper marching techniques for others, and gave advice to anyone having trouble with part of our marching show. At the start of field hockey season I showed leadership by helping new players learn to play field hockey by demonstrating how
Being a member of the marching band gave me a new perspective of myself. My sophomore year I became the clarinet section leader. I was nervous at first because I had never been a leader of anything. But, as the marching season progressed I started growing leadership qualities. Throughout the season, I helped
Throughout my life I have tried many things snowboarding, sailing, rock climbing, and kayaking. I’ve enjoyed them all but the one activity that has stuck with me more than any other was Boy Scouts. I started scouts when I was 8 years old; I had no idea what I was getting into. I remember walking into the Saint Stevens, the church where the troop held their meetings, for the first time and seeing all of the other cub scouts. I was very nervous and wanted to make a good impression on the other kids. Due to my age I was put into the rank of wolf, the second lowest rank in cub scouts. We were a group of 16 kids. I don’t know how anyone could have controlled us at that young age, we were wild. Only three of the 16 ever made it to eagle and I worked hard to be one of them.
A leader is someone who will work towards a goal that will benefit the group as a whole and along the way they will lead that group to accomplish that particular goal. A leader has to have passion and they need to create a vision and follow through with it until it is completed. I was selected as one of eight out of over 400 applicants to represent the church camp that I have attended summer after summer for two weeks as a high school staffer this past summer. I had to lead two large groups of campers, made up almost entirely of new camper, in a group bible study for two weeks . At first, it was difficult to get the campers to open up, but later I realized that they were trying their hardest and I needed to be patient. My goal was to lead and help them become the best person and future leader anyone could ask
For the last few years, I’ve been involved in Boy Scouts of America. Boy Scouts is very important to me, and has been a huge influence for good on me. Scouting teaches its participance various skills, values, and morals. Some of the knowledge I’ve gained is mostly only useful while camping, but most if it is very use full in everyday life.
Do what you are told, be where you needed to be, and you would be fine, that is what I learned in basic training among other things. We had classes about the rank structure and how all ranks fell into place in relation to one another. Never questioned my leadership because they had the experience and possessed enough knowledge to handle any situation which may have arisen, this is what I had learned in basic training. In my mind, since I joined the U.S. Army, I wanted to become a Noncommissioned Officer because of the way I saw my drill sergeants carry themselves also the vast knowledge that they possessed. Always sure of themselves, never wavering, always having an answer for virtually any
When my brother joined ROTC I thought it was the coolest class and from then on I knew that I wanted to be a part of it. ROTC has helped me throughout high school it has helped me meet new people and make new friends and all of those friends taught me ways to get through high school with less stress. Most people knew because my brother was a senior and was very popular so that’s how I met most people. Some of the people who influenced me in high school were my brother and some of his closest friends Ryan Ellenwood and Breannah Baur.