cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/42453153
Congress requires the Pentagon to support the scouting program’s Jamboree, a gathering of thousands of young scouts held every three or four years. The U.S. military lends trucks, ambulances and medical teams, and puts on aviation and skydiving demonstrations, all at no cost to the Scouts. For the military, it’s both a training exercise and an opportunity to recruit highly motivated, civic-minded kids.
But the law includes an exemption: the Secretary of Defense can withhold support if he determines providing it would be “detrimental to national security.”
Drafts of a report to Congress obtained by NPR show Hegseth invoking that clause — accusing Scouting America of fostering “gender confusion.”
His memo to the House and Senate Armed Services committees argues the Scouts have strayed from their mission to “cultivate masculine values.” It also claims that with international conflicts and a tight budget, sending troops, doctors and vehicles to a 10-day youth event would harm national security by diverting resources from border operations and protecting U.S. territory.
I was a Scout and I never had leaders that were inappropriate thank God, but you best believe that it was basically grooming you for the army. The amount of religious stuff they shove down your throats too, I think we can do better than the Scouts for kids. Let it die
We don’t push anything faith related. Our program focuses on awareness of the environment, community outreach, and most of all… Camping!
I’m pretty sure we pay for all of it ourselves. They can keep their “funding”. It doesn’t reach us anyway.
Yep, same here, we never had any of that religious shit or military shit. It was all about awareness for the environment, community outreach, hiking, climbing, camping, caving. We did a ton, and our leaders where all dads who had their own kids in the program. Everyone of them were previous eagle scouts and had a lot of certs to make it a ton of fun for everyone. It sucks that the program no longer seems like that anymore.
The program is still exactly like that, except now the pedos are kicked out.
I’m pretty sure your experience wasn’t typical of most troops.
That’s fair, their leaders are generally inappropriate.