First Class Requirements

The First Class Rank

 1. Demonstrate how to find direction 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 item (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.

 4a. Help plan a patrol menu for one campout-including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner-that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.

 4a. Help Plan a patrol menu for one campout-including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner-that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.

 4b. 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.

 4c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.

 4d. 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.

 4e. On one campout, serve as your patrols 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 and supervise cleanup.

 5. Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) on you Constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. citizen.

 6. Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.

 7a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.

 7b. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings boy joining two or more poles or staves together.

 7c. Use lashings to make a useful camp gadget.

 8a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.

 8b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle and for injuries on the head, upper arm, and collarbone.

 8c. Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person:

· From a smoke-filled room

· With a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards 

 8d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).

 9a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.

 9b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test. *

 9c. Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt, and long-sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate shirt, and show that you can float using your shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, and then show how to reinflate the pants while using them for support. *

 9d. 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 the Scout Law in your everyday life.

 11. Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

 12. Complete your board of review.

 * This requirements may be wavered by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.