First Class
Requirements for the rank of First Class.
- Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at
night without using a compass.
- Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers
at least 1 mile and requires measuring the height and/or width
of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)
- Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol
activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which
included camping overnight.
- a. 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.
b. 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.
c. Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to
cook and serve these meals.
d. 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, can, plastic containers, and other rubbish.
e. On one campout, serve as your patrol's 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 at the meals and supervise
cleanup.
- Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by
your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant,
principal, teacher) your constitutional rights and obligations
as a U.S. citizen.
- Identify or show evidence of at least 10 kinds of native
plants found in your community.
- a. Discuss when you should and should not use lashings.
b. Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their
use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or
more poles or staves together.
c. Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.
- a. Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several
ways it can be used.
b. Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle, and for injuries
on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.
c. 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.
d. Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain
the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).
- a. Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.
b. Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.*
c. 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 the
shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support.
Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using
the inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate
the pants while using them for support.*
d. With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both
as tender and rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately
30 feet from shore in deep water.)
- Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise)
and Scout Law in your everyday life.
- Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
- Complete your board of review.
* This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for
medical or safety reasons.