A few facts about Scouts:
For every 100 boys who join scouting:
- One will save his own life with information he gained in Scouts.
- One will save someone else's life with the information he gained in Scouts.
- Two will join the medical profession.
- 10 will have their first contact with an organized religion through Scouting activities.
- 2 will join the ministry or become key persons in their church or synagogue.
- 2 will join law enforcement.
- 10 will find a lifelong hobby or a career through the merit badge program.
- 3 will obtain the Eagle Scout rank.
- 16 will return as adult volunteers in Scouting.
In addition to that:
- Every man to have ever walked on the moon was an Eagle Scout!
- 75% of US Rhodes Scholars were Scouts!
- 75% of FBI agents were Scouts!
- 80% of the graduates from all US military academies were Scouts!
- There are over 30 Eagle Scouts in the US Congress!
**According to a Time Magazine poll conducted about 10 years ago..