Scouting

Most people don't know this, but just about every city in the U.S. sponsors a company size unit in one of the branches of the armed forces. It just so happens that the one that sponsors my company (Dco 1-327) is Franklin TN. Franklin is about 1 hour and 15 minuets south of Fort Campbell. In fact it is just south of Nashville. Well during the deployment, different groups would get together and make us care packages, write us letters, and make sure that we had someone thinking about us. One of these groups was the Boy Scouts of Troop 137. So when we returned, the scoutmaster wanted to have a few of the guys come down and talk to the scouts. Being an Eagle Scout myself, I thought that I should go. So I did. I took Michelle along with me(my First Sergeant was surprised that she wanted to go). I thought that I was going to show up and there was going to be maybe 10 scouts and that would be it, boy was I wrong, when we get there we pull up to this barn with 150 scouts running around. This scout troop had a ton of kid it was crazy. to start the night we had a flag raising ceremony and the Scoutmaster had all of us tell a little about ourselves. After that we played a game of BALL. The whole point is to get the ball and hold on to it as long as you can, when 150 guys all are trying to get the ball, it is a lot harder then it sounds. I played ball for 20 then we all went inside the Barn. Inside the barn we let the scouts ask us questions about the army. Most of the questions were about the weapons that we used, and boy did their faces light up when one boy asked me what the biggest gun i ever got to use was, and I told them it was the MK19 Full Automatic Grenade Launcher. After a ton of questions, we split up into patrols and each patrol got one Solider. This gave all the scouts a chance to ask a question. we took pictures, and talked to the scouts. We then all met back together in a large group, and My company Commanding Officer CPT Rottenberg Said a few words, and then gave a few scouts, Company coins, and handed out a few company T-Shirts. Before we closed the Scoutmaster asked me to come forward, I was the only Eagle Scout, and asked me to tell the scouts how being an Eagle Scout has helped me in the army. After I answered, The scouts all challenged me to see how many pull ups I could do. I looked back at my CO and my First Sergeant, they looked back at me like, You do PT every morning you better be able to do it. so In front of 150 scouts, 10 of my fellow soldiers, and my two bosses, I did pull ups. I did 19, and the army standard is 6 so I did good enough that I was happy. After that we closed, and we drove back to Ft Campbell.