1. Meet Age Requirements: Be a boy who is 11 years old, OR Who has completed the fifth grade OR Earned the Arrow of Light Award and be at least 10 years old and be under 18 years old. (Updated in 1999)
2. Complete a Boy Scout Application and health history signed by you parent or guardian.
3. Find a Scout Troop near your home.
4. Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance
5. Demonstrate the following
   1. Scout Sign
   2. Salute
   3. Handclasp
6. Demonstrate tying the square knot
7. Understand and agree to live by following
   1. Scout Oath
   2. Scout Law
   3. Scout Motto
   4. Scout Slogan
   5. Outdoor code
8. Describe the Scout Badge
9. With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse and Drug Abuse. (Ed Note this is a pamphlet, found just inside the front cover of the 1995 Boy Scout Handbook)
10. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference. Turn in your Boy Scout Application and health history signed by you parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster Conference.

1. Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.
2. Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop camp out. Sleep in a tent that you have helped pitch.
3. On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.
4. Demonstrate:
   1. How to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
   2. Tying two half hitches and a tautline hitch by using these knots to pitch a tent.
5. Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country during the day and the night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
6. Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower and fold the American flag.
7. Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the:
   1. Scout Oath
   2. Scout Law
   3. Scout Motto
   4. Scout Slogan
8. Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell and describe your patrol flag.
   (ed note: Troop 339 has all of the BSA Patrol emblems posted here.)
9. Explain the buddy system in Scouting.
10. Do the following:
    1. Record your best in : Pushups_____, Pull-ups _____,
       Sit-ups ____, Standing long jump ____(ft.)____(in.)
       1/4 mile _____ (mins.) _____(secs.)
       
    2. Show improvement after practicing for 30 days in the:
       Pushups_____, Pull-ups_____,
       Sit-ups_____, Standing long jump ____(ft.)____(in.)
       1/4 mile _____ (mins.) _____(secs.)
11. Identify local poisonous plants and tell how to treat for exposure to them.
12. Do the following:
    1. Demonstrate the Heimlich Maneuver and tell when it is used.
    2. Show first aid for :
       ___ Simple cuts & Scratches,
       ___ Blisters on the hand and foot,
       ___ Minor burns or scalds,
       ___ Insect bites,
       ___ Poisonous snakebite,
       ___ Nosebleed,
       ___ Frostbite and sunburn
13. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
14. Board of Review.

1. Do the following:
   1. Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map.
      Explain what the map symbols mean.
   2. Using a compass and a map together, take a five mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.^*
2. Do the following:
   1. Since joining, have participate in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.
   2. On one of these camp outs, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched.
   3. On one camp out, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw and ax, and describe when they should be used. (ie Earn your Tote-N-Chip card)
   4. Use the tools listed in 2c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.
   5. Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove.
      Discuss the safety procedures for using both.
   6. Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.
   7. On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the food pyramid. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.
3. Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, community or troop.
4. Participate in an approved (minimum 1 hour) service project.
5. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals found in your community.
6. Do the following:
   1. Show what to do for "hurry" cases of: stopped breathing, serious bleeding and internal poisoning.
   2. Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.
   3. Demonstrate first aid for the following:
      • Object in the eye.
        
      • Bite of a suspected rabid animal.
        
      • Puncture wounds from : a splinter, nail, and fishhook.
        
      • Serious burns (second degree)
        
      • Heat exhaustion
        
      • Shock
        
      • Heat stroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation
        
7. Second Class swim requirements are as follows :
   1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.
   2. Demonstrate your ability to jump feet first into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surface, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place.
   3. Demonstrate water rescue by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.
8. Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with family.
9. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
10. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
11. Complete your "Board of Review".

^*If you use a wheelchair or crutches, or if it is difficult for you to get around, you may substitute "trip" for "hike".

1. Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night, without using a compass
2. Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/ or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.).
3. Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.
4. First Class Cooking Requirements are as follows
   1. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout--including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner -- that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes food from the food pyramid and meets nutritional needs.
   2. Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.
   3. Tell what pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.
   4. Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.
   5. On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.
5. Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your Constitutional rights and obligations as a US citizen.
6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.
7. Do or Demonstrate the following:
   1. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings
   2. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more staves together.
   3. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
8. Do the Following
   1. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways that it can be used.
   2. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
   3. Show how to transport by yourself, and with another person, a person :
      • From a smoke filled room
      • With a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards
   4. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack.
      Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
9. DO the following 3 parts for this Swimming section (2002)
   1. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
   2. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.^*
      
   3. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.)
10. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
11. Tell someone who is eligible to join Boy Scouts or an inactive Boy Scout, about your
    Troop's activities. Invite him to a troop outing, activity, service project or meeting.
    Tell him how to join or encourage the inactive Boy Scout to become active.** (2006)
12. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
13. Complete your board of review.

<sup>** (2006) Effective January 1, 2006 , Scouts already working on their First Class rank prior to this date have
until June 30, 2006 to complete the rank without fulfilling (the new) requirement 11.

*</sup>This requirement #9 may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons and replaced with alternative requirements listed on page 13 of the Boy Scout Requirements 2002-2006 books. #33215E ISBN 0-8395-3215-6
© 1999-2006 Boy Scouts of America Revised 2002 through 2006

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn six merit badges, including any four from the required list for Eagle.
4. While First Class Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your scoutmaster.
5. While First Class Scout, serve actively four months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility
   1. Boy Scout troop.
      • Patrol leader,
      • assistant senior patrol leader,
      • senior patrol leader,
      • troop guide,
      • den chief,
      • scribe,
      • librarian,
      • Order of the Arrow troop Representative,
      • historian,
      • quartermaster,
      • junior assistant scoutmaster,
      • chaplain aide, or
      • instructor.
   2. Varsity Scout team.
      • Captain,
      • cocaptain,
      • program manager,
      • squad leader,
      • team secretary,
      • Order of the Arrow troop Representative,
      • librarian,
      • quartermaster,
      • chaplain aide,
      • instructor, or
      • den chief.
6. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
7. Complete your "Board of Review".

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star Scout
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and
   Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn five more merit badges (so you have 11 in all), including any three from the required list for Eagle.
4. While Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your scoutmaster.
5. While Star Scout, serve actively six months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility
   1. Boy Scout troop.
      • Patrol leader,
      • assistant senior patrol leader,
      • senior patrol leader,
      • troop guide,
      • Order of the Arrow troop Representative,
      • den chief,
      • scribe,
      • librarian,
      • historian,
      • quartermaster,
      • junior assistant scoutmaster,
      • chaplain aide, or
      • instructor.
   2. Varsity Scout team.
      • Captain,
      • cocaptain,
      • program manager,
      • squad leader,
      • team secretary,
      • Order of the Arrow troop Representative,
      • librarian,
      • quartermaster,
      • chaplain aide,
      • instructor, or
      • den chief.
   .
6. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference
7. Complete your "Board of Review".

As changes were made to ALL the Required badges Sometime since 1999,
you need to verify that the badge (booklet) that you are planning work on is up to the current requirements.

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout
2. Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and
   Scout Law in your everyday life.
3. Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than already obtained for life) including the following required badges.
   1. First Aid New 2005 Requirements
      
   2. Citizenship in the Community New 2005 Requirements
      
   3. Citizenship in the Nation New 2005 Requirements
      
   4. Citizenship in the World New 2006 requirements !
      
   5. Communications The New 2004 Requirements
      
   6. *Personal Fitness New 2001 requirements
      
   7. Emergency Preparedness New 2004 Requirements OR Lifesaving 2001 Requirements ***
      
   8. Environmental Science New 2006 requirements !
      
   9. Personal Management New 2004 Requirements
      
   10. Swimming (2001 Requirements) OR Hiking (2001)OR Cycling (2003)***
       
   11. Camping New 2006 requirements !
       
   12. Family Life New 2005 Requirements
       *Please notice that SAFETY has been replaced with PERSONAL FITNESS
       ***The new Alternatives for SWIMMING are now : HIKING OR CYCLING
       SPORTS & PERSONAL FITNESS ARE no longer an Alternatives for SWIMMING.
       On that note, SPORTS and SAFETY are no longer required badges.
       
       (Note: Since Family Life was introduced in 1994, Scouts must earn 12 badges from this required list for Eagle.)
       ***(You must choose only one merit badge listed in items g and j. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed in items g and j, choose only one from those items for to apply to the Eagle list of 12 required merit badges. The extra merit badge may count as a nonrequired badge, or toward getting a Palm.)
       
4. While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility:
   1. Boy Scout troop.
      • Patrol leader,
      • assistant senior patrol leader,
      • senior patrol leader,
      • troop guide,
      • den chief,
      • scribe,
      • librarian,
      • historian,
      • quartermaster,
      • junior assistant scoutmaster,
      • chaplain aide, or
      • instructor.
   2. Varsity Scout team.
      • Captain,
      • co-captain,
      • program manager,
      • squad leader,
      • team secretary,
      • librarian,
      • quartermaster,
      • chaplain aide,
      • instructor, or
      • den chief.
5. While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project idea must be approved by your Scoutmaster and troop committee and approved by the council or district before you start. You must use the Life to Eagle Packet, BSA Publication No. 18-927, in meeting this requirement.
6. Take part in a Scoutmaster conference
7. Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.
   
   NOTE: If you have a permanent physical or mental disability you may become an Eagle Scout by qualifying for as many required merit badges as you can and qualifying for alternate merit badges for the rest. If you seek to become and Eagle under this procedure, you must submit a special application to your council service center. Your application must be approved by your council committee on advancement BEFORE YOU CAN WORK ON ALTERNATIVE MERIT BADGES.
   

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after award of last palm .
2. Show Scout spirit.
3. Make satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.
4. Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or the last palm.*
5. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming a Eagle Scout or after award of last palm.
2. Show Scout spirit.
3. Make satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.
4. Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or the last palm.*
5. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference

1. Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after award of last palm .
2. Show Scout spirit.
3. Make satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.
4. Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or the last palm.*
5. Participate in a Scoutmaster Conference

Note: You may wear only the proper combination of palms for the number of merit badges you earned beyond the rank of eagle. The Bronze Palm represents five merit badges, Gold Palm 10 merit badges and the Silver Palm 15 merit badges.