Apprentice Requirements
1. Present your Explorer Scout Application and evidence of a physical
checkup, together with a list of hobbies, skills and sports which interest
you and an outline record of your camping and other experiences in outdoor
life.
2. Know the Scout Oath and the Scout Law and interpret to you Post
Advisor their practical meaning in your daily life and in your life plans.
3. In a Post Ceremonial, formally declare you adherence to the Scout
Oath and Law and your allegiance to the United States of American and to
its Flag.
Woodsman to Ranger Requirements
1. Complete at least one requirement from each of the seven activity
groups.
2. Complete an additional five requirements for a total of 12 requirements
out of 20.
Woodsman Requirements
I. Physical Fitness
1. Physical Skills
As part of a plan for physical fitness, develop and demonstrate at
least average proficiency in some outdoor skill or sport-- such as swimming,
rowing, canoeing, skiing, fishing, wrestling, boxing, baseball, or an equivalent
as approved by the Post Council.
2. Special Toughening Skills
Establish as a basis for personal improvement, your own fitness scores
on the Step-Test and on any two of pull-up, push-up, or vertical jump.
II. Campcraft
3. Trail Equipment
On a hike, demonstrate how to improvise and use personal emergency
trail equipment--pack, improvised from trousers, sack, or the like-- cooking
kit made from cans--shelter of coat, poncho or native materials-- sleeping
bag from blankets or tarp and emergency cover of leaves or snow.
4. Fire and Food
a) Find in the field suitable local tinder and wood and without matches,
produce and use fires for boiling and broiling.
b) Find and prepare for meal, cooked or raw, three wild edible plants
or fruits.
5. Backwoods Engineering
On a hike, demonstrate proper development of temporary camp site covering
shelter, food cache, and measures for cooking, water supply, and sanitation.
6. Weather
On 4 or more hikes, point out the usual local signs indicating bad
or changing weather and demonstrate bad weather fire-making and cooking
with only improvised shelter; also point out the four types of clouds.
III. Field Craft
7. Stalking and Concealing
a) Creep and crawl without being seen to within 25 feet of a person
b) From a distance of 25 yards, approach a blind-folded listener to
within 12 feet without being heard.
c) At command, "freeze" and remain rigidly motionless for 1 minute.
8. Orientation
On a hike, follow a compass course (magnetic azimuth) for one mile
or more with reasonable accuracy, and with at least four changes of direction
and submit sketch map of route.
9. Communications
On a hike or in camp, send and receive messages of at least 20 words
(minimum of 100 letters) by International Morse Code, using any improvised
source of sound; OR make a radio receiving set, any type, OR log at least
20 short wave stations and list Federal Communications Commission rules
for licensing of station.
10. Trail First Aid
On a hike or in camp, demonstrate on others and self, how to improvise,
on the trail, sterile dressings for stings, burns and other wounds; splints;
non equipment snake-bite treatment, emergency trail handling of shock,
heat exhaustion, sunstroke, freezing, and poisoning.
IV. Expeditions
11. Expeditions
Help plan and participate in at least one expedition of at least two
nights.
12. Camping
Take part in three or more overnight camping or fishing or hunting
trips
V. Life Explorations
13. Hobbies and Skills
Select and develop a hobby or skill
14. Vocations
Hold a job for 30 days or more, and present evidence of success.
15. Farm Project
Determine the soil conditions of an approved soil area, reporting for
what crops it is best suited, and what treatment the soil needed for improved
production of one crop; OR prepare a plan for adequate water supply for
such an area, including a summary from Weather Bureau records of the average
rainfall expectations.
16. Social Observances
Demonstrate the proper way to introduce two people; to handle formal
and informal invitations; the role of an escort; respects due ladies and
older people; calling at a home; going to receptions, public events, restaurants,
theaters, church.
VI. Community Participation
17. Community Service Projects
a) Carry out, alone or jointly, at least one community service project
developed in consultation with his Post Advisor
b) Explore and report on what provision is made by your city or county
government to protect health and provide for health needs.
18. Conservation
From field research, find out how a local conservation problem arose
and offer one or more possible solutions.
19. Continuing Community Duties
Take your share helping meet volunteer leadership needs in the community
through church, school, Scouting, or other community projects.
VII Group Participation Record
20. Satisfactory Record
Render at least three months satisfactory service as an Apprentice
Explorer
Frontiersman Requirements
I. Physical Fitness
1. Physical Skills
Continue you physical fitness plan and demonstrate proficiency in one
added physical skill or sport.
2. Special Toughening Skills
a) Climb overhand an 18-foot rope in not more then 25 seconds
b) Establish your own best record at your least fatiguing gait, for
one mile; or establish, at the basis for improvement, your own records
in high jump, broad jump, and hand vault.
II. Campcraft
3. Trail Equipment
Make and use a back-packing outfit- pack frame, sack, or basket; OR
make and use own snowshoes; OR make and demonstrate two or more snares
and box traps such as would be used for emergency wilderness food supply.
4. Fire and Food
On a hike, or in camp, prepare for two or more companions, one of the
following: bean hole beans, imu, roast on spit, barbecue, clambake,
or fish fry
5. Backwoods Engineering
On a hike, with one or more companions, cross a 20-foot or wide raven,
stream or body of water, using rope, vines, temporary improvised bridge
or raft; OR build a needed trail bridge.
6. Weather
From a study of weather records select the best winter season and the
best hot weather season for expeditions, and submit plans for necessary
clothing and gear for both seasons-- demonstrating for one season on a
hike; find out what seasons are more free from insect pests and on a hike
show how to protect from insects.
III. Field Craft
7. Stalking and Concealing
Stalk a wild animal or bird for photographing or for bow and arrow
hunting, in season; OR track and trail through suitable cover, a companion
keeping within 66 feet to 100 feet for 1/2 mile without being detected.
8. Orientation
On an expedition make a sketch map covering the trip, and showing compass
bearings and approximate distances, also places where wild animal life
was seen.
9. Communications
On a hike or in camp, send and receive messages of at least 30 words
(minimum of 150 letters) by International Morse Code, over a distance of
1/4 mile or more using heliograph, or special improvised visual means;
OR make a short wave receiving set; OR demonstrate your ability to meet
the first half of the Federal Communications Commission requirements for
Radio Amateur's license.
10. Trail First Aid
On a night hike, demonstrate artificial respiration, five types of
emergency splinting and bandaging, done entirely in the dark.
IV. Expeditions
11. Expeditions
Participate in expedition of at least three days and two nights' duration,
involving transportation by foot, horse, boat, and so forth, and involving
more then one campsite.
12. Camping
Hike 15 miles with a pack weighting not less than 25 lb., limit of
drinking water 1 pint, only meat to be emergency rations prepared by self.
V. Life Explorations
13. Hobbies and Skills
Select and develop a new hobby or skill and report or demonstrate in
Post meeting
14. Vocations
Explore and report in Post Meeting on qualities and preparation needed,
as well as the future outlook for a young man in any vocation of own choosing.
15. Farm Project
Carry through your own approved garden, chicken, stock, pigeon, bee
or rabbit, or similar project. (May be 4H Club or Future Farmers of America
projects if desired)
16. Social Observances
Give evidence of knowledge of proper table etiquette including table
arrangement, seating of guests, grace at meals, and the serving and passing
of food.
VI. Community Participation
17. Community Service Projects
a) Continue your effort, alone or jointly, to do your part in helping
with community affairs.
b) Report what non government agencies there are in your community
which seek to benefit youth.
18. Conservation
Develop and carry out an original conservation project in consultation
with his Post Advisor and government or other conservation leaders.
19. Continuing Community Duties
Help find others to help as needed community leaders in church, school,
Scouting, and so forth, in addition to your own continuing service.
VII Group Participation Record
20. Satisfactory Record
Render at least three months satisfactory service as an Explorer Woodsman
Ranger Requirements
I. Physical Fitness
1. Physical Skills
Progress in your physical fitness plan and demonstrate proficiency
in one added physical skill or sport.
2. Special Toughening Skills
Build an approved obstacle course of at least five units and establish
your record for the course.
II. Campcraft
3. Trail Equipment
Make and use a sleeping bag or a tent suitable for your climate, OR
a reflector oven and a water bag, OR make a pair of skis or snowshoes,
OR build a canoe, kayak, or rowboat.
4. Fire and Food
Cook a meal for two or more companions, built around fish, fowl or
other game in season secured on the trip.
5. Backwoods Engineering
With ropes available and poles to lash, rig a rescue device across
a 25-foot body of water or stream bed, with the help of the "marooned"
person; OR build some needed camp equipment such as permanent fireplace,
dutch oven; OR, with others, if needed, build a cabin.
6. Weather
Outline methods of survival for emergencies in arctic cold, desert
heat, when adrift at sea and in jungle wilderness, and demonstrate on hike
or expedition survival measures for that season.
III. Field Craft
7. Stalking and Concealing
On a hike or expedition, pitch tent so as to conceal and camouflage
it. After its use, cover all signs of camp, including footprints
within 15 feet around the site.
8. Orientation
Using compass and grid map, make your way in unfamiliar country (wilderness
where possible) through three designated grid map points, involving a 4-mile
circuit.
9. Communications
On a hike or in camp at night, send and receive at least 40 words (minimum
of 200 letters) by International Morse Code, over a distance of 1/4 mile
using any improvise or homemade blinker device; OR, make a working plan
for an amateur's sending set; OR, qualify for FCC Radio Amateur's license.
10. Trail First Aid
On a hike or in camp demonstrate, over an approved trail, emergency
transportation of injured person by one and by two others, including the
making of an emergency sling or sledge from poles, ropes, and sticks.
IV. Expeditions
11. Expeditions
Present detailed plans as Director of a 5-day, 3-or-more-man expedition
and participate in one such trip, involving more then one campsite..
12. Camping
Spend a total of at least 10 nights in overnight service, fishing or
hunting camps.
V. Life Explorations
13. Hobbies and Skills
Select and carry on a new hobby or advance in an old one, and show
evidence of fair mastery of one added craft skill.
14. Vocations
Compare the three vocations which seem the attractive to you and outline
in conference with your Post Advisor, a practical plan you might follow
to enter any one of them
15. Farm Project
After counseling with one or more agricultural leaders, outline and
carry through your own project in agricultural research or experimentation
in soils, new crops, crop improvement by selection or breeding, grafting,
quests for new uses, methods, and so forth.
16. Social Observances
Give evidence of having read a book or pamphlet on social usage; present
directions for five social games appropriate for informal Explorer Scout
occasional assist social committee in arranging and conducting a formal
social event.
VI. Community Participation
17. Community Service Projects
In addition to your own help or leadership in some approved community
project, report to your Post on which service, protective and developmental,
are carried on by your local government primarily for the benefit of youth.
18. Conservation
Survey and report on the main representatives of the families of plant
and animal life discovered at any one season in an approved areas, indicating
their relation to human life; OR, explore and report on some one form of
plant or animal life as to its prevalence, how it lives, what part it plays
in its natural setting, and its possible values.
19. Continuing Community Duties
Assist in training others as needed, as part of the continuing help
to the community through church, school, Scouting or other community projects.
VII Group Participation Record
20. Satisfactory Record
Render at least six months satisfactory service as an Explorer Frontiersman
Source: Explorer Scout Manual, #3506, 1946