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Old 11-28-2011, 19:47   #102
adal
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I don't think Scouting pushed me towards SF but it was a natural path for me.
It taught me leadership, trust in myself, skill knowledge.
I am still active in scouting. Took a troop out for the second year in a row and taught winter survival. I am in the mountains at 7500' and they are from Phoenix where it rarely gets cold. This year I took my 12 year old daughter with us. It was 35 degrees and rained all night long. Stellar!!!!!! The boys shelters worked, fire skills were tested, moral was high and lots was learned.
I think everything other than tactics I learned in scouts. All the military did was reenforce or sharpen a skill I learned in scouts. (Rifle and survival skills were good, but team time with an M-4 and SERE sure made those better!
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