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Tuskegee Airman Honored During Jamboree
The 2010 National Scout Jamboree is in the books. One of the very special ceremonies at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia was the presentation of the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award to Col. Charles McGee (center), one of the original Tuskegee Airmen—a group of America’s first black military airmen who played a large role in World War II.
“He’s a national treasure,” NESA jamboree chief Shawn L. Briese said during the ceremony. “It was an absolute honor to be able to sit in his house and have this conversation with him. He walked me back into the study, and on his wall in the study was his Boy Scout history. In that frame was the Eagle Scout medal and the Silver Beaver medal. It was at that time I decided that Col. McGee was going to get a Distinguished Eagle Scout Award if I had any say in the matter.”
For more sights and sounds from the historic jamboree, visit www.bsajamboree.org.
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Eagles in the News
Scott Krech wants to be a surgeon, so he was excited last year to do a surgery-related Eagle Scout leadership service project. He didn’t put anyone under the knife, however. Instead, he transformed a storage closet at the Animal House rescue shelter in Fort Collins, Colorado, into a surgical suite.
The U.S. Coast Guard sponsored an exhibit at the 2010 National Scout Jamboree. It involved 106 former Scouts—70 who are Eagle Scouts—who played a large role in building and staffing the two-acre site.
Less than 5 percent of all Boy Scouts earn the Eagle Scout Award, making Scouting’s highest rank a rare honor. But one Scout, Eli Wittum, recently earned an even more uncommon honor: the Medal of Honor With Crossed Palms.
Leaving No Trace
Many Eagle Scout leadership service projects involve building something—a nature trail, park benches, or a memorial garden, for instance. Aaron Edgel’s project took the opposite approach.