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Celebrate your Eagle Scout with the Class of 2025 Commemorative Yearbook, now available to order.

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Eagle Scouts who join NESA within one year of their board of review date will receive a 15% discount on a 5-year or Lifetime membership.

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Give your Eagle pride a purpose with membership in the National Eagle Scout Association. Your membership empowers Scouting’s mission, protects the Eagle Scout legacy, and keeps Eagle alumni connected.

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Eagle Pride Showcase

Eagle Pride Showcase shows the contribution of NESA members to the mission, vision, and delivery of Scouting programs in communities across the country.

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Give Your Eagle Pride A Purpose

As a member of the National Eagle Scout Association, you further the mission, values, and time-honored traditions of Scouting in your community and our country. Give your Eagle pride a purpose by joining NESA today; the future is in your hands.

Eagle Pride Showcase

Showcase the moments in your life that exemplify the best of Scouting in your units, family, community, or workplace.

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Eagle Scout Terry Fossum, winner of the Fox Network survival reality competition Kicking & Screaming.

M.W. Daniel Bartlett, Grand Master Mason of Maine, recently presented the Grand Lodge of Maine Masonic Scouting Achievement Medal to NESA life members and siblings Logan and Nora Spratt.

Duane has returned home, where he earned his Eagle, to volunteer as the charted org rep for two local units. He has served the Missouri VFW State Scouting Team for the past fifteen years.

Torben recently passed the CPEN (Certified Pediatric Emergency Nurse) Exam and now is in the Board of Certified Emergency Nurses "High Five" Club. He is the 98th Emergency Nurse to hold all five of the board's professional nursing designations.

Meet the Matt Thomson family—a three-generation legacy of Eagle Scouts.

Dr. Tim Hoyt was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and serves as the Deputy Director for Force Resiliency in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness.

Evan received the AFCEA International’s prestigious Emerging Leadership Award during a ceremony on February 13th, in conjunction with the AFCEA West Conference.

Thomas Proctor, Director of Institutional Research at McLennan Community College, received the 2025 NISOD Excellence Award, honoring his exceptional work in higher education.

CHICAGO - On Friday, April 29th, 2022 Colonel (Retired) Paul J. Hettich was inducted into Loyola University Reserve Officers Training Corps (ROTC) Hall of Fame Class of 2022.

Lauren becomes the third Eagle Scout in her father’s family. The two earned their Eagles 39 years apart.

PFC Jonathan Roberts had a busy 2022, graduating high school, earning Eagle, and graduating basic training from Paris Island Marine Corps training base.

Former BSA professional Chris Schuler before his first campout with then Lion Scout son Chris.

William Kropa, Chairman of the Marine Corps League's National Scout Committee, was congratulated by the National Commandant of the Marine Corps League, for being selected to receive the Silver Antelope. The award was presented at the NAM event in Atlanta, GA, on May 31, 2023.

Currently serving as the National Commander for the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH), which is a veteran's service organization comprised of combat wounded veterans.

Five Eagle Scouts from the McNiff family.

Ethan receives a proclamation from New York State Senator John E. Brooks at his Eagle court of honor.

Five Eagle Scouts summit Mount Rainier in a five-day ice climbing trek up the Kautz Glazier to the 14,410 elevation. Together, the three sons earned their Eagle Scout in Troop 8 in Asheville, NC.

NESA Life Member Stephen Spratt and his wife Christine are pleased to welcome and congratulate their son Logan as Katahdin Area Council's newest Eagle Scout and now NESA Life Member!

The journey started by Robert Morell, Scoutmaster 1982-1988.

The Andersen-Taylor family celebrating at the Court of Honor for Gabriel Andersen-Taylor.

Lifetime NESA member Vincent earns every merit badge before turning eighteen.

Robert F. Clifford recently returned to the United States after over two years in Kyiv, Ukraine, where he served as Mission Advisor and Country Program Director for US DOJ-sponsored law enforcement training. A retired FBI senior executive, he managed a team assisting Ukrainian law enforcement and was significantly involved in investigating Russian war crimes.

Willie Ore received the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Old North State Council on April 4, 2024.

A troop and its charted partner, Eden Church, trace their history back to the 1920s. Troop 31 recently decided to celebrate their 100th Eagle Scout, with fourteen Eagle Scouts in attendance.

2023 National Jamboree

July 19 - 28, 2023

Jamboree is more than a destination. It’s the adventure of lifetime. And there is simply nothing else like it on the planet.

What’s a Jamboree? It’s not camp. National Jamboree is 360-degrees of fun, friends and fellowship with hands-on adventure that takes you places you never thought you’d go and challenge you to try things you never thought you could.

It’s the beginning of your own heroes’ journey that will challenge you to go farther than you ever thought possible. You’ll reach deeper and lift yourself higher to become the best version of yourself.

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