Ranger Award

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Ranger Award

Medal and bar
Award data
Owner Boy Scouts of America
Country United States
Created 1998
Website Venturing Ranger Award
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The Ranger Award is Venturing's highest award. It is designed to encourage youths to become proficient in outdoor skills.

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[edit] Award

The medal is an antique silver colored roundel suspended from a white and green ribbon that is in turn suspended from a bar. The medal is inscribed with a compass rose with the BSA universal badge at the top and the word RANGER at the bottom. A powderhorn is in the center on a green enameled background. The bar is inscribed with RANGER. The Ranger bar is available as a separate item for informal uniform wear. As of late 2007, there is no square knot insignia.

[edit] Requirements

To earn the Ranger Award, Venturers must earn awards similar to Merit Badges. There are eight awards, called Core Requirements, that are required to earn the Ranger Award. To earn the Ranger Award, a Venturer must also earn four out of eighteen awards, called Electives.

[edit] Core Requirements

To earn the Ranger Award, all Venturers must earn the following awards:

  1. First Aid
  2. Communications
  3. Cooking
  4. Emergency Preparedness
  5. Land Navigation
  6. Leave No Trace
  7. Wilderness Survival
  8. Conservation

[edit] Electives

To earn the Ranger Award, Venturers must earn four of the following:

  1. Backpacking
  2. Cave Exploring
  3. Cycling/Mountain Biking
  4. Ecology
  5. Equestrian
  6. First Aid (Different from the Core Requirement)
  7. Fishing
  8. Hunting
  9. Lifesaver (Lifeguarding)
  10. Mountaineering
  11. Outdoor Living History
  12. Physical Fitness
  13. Plants and Wildlife
  14. Project COPE
  15. Scuba
  16. Shooting Sports
  17. Watercraft
  18. Winter Sports

[edit] Origins

The first Ranger Medal was issued between 1946 and 1949 as part of the BSA's Explorer Program.[1] Although the Ranger program was officially discontinued in 1949, Explorer Scouts could continue work on the Ranger Award until 1951.[2] A total of 2,782 Explorers earned the original Ranger Award between 1944 and 1959.[3]

The Ranger Award was re-introduced by the BSA in 1998 as part of the new Venturing program. Adam Snyder of Waukegan, Illinois was the first Venturer to earn the Ranger Award in 1999.[4]

[edit] For Leaders

Scout Leaders interested in the Ranger award can take the Powder Horn (Boy Scouts of America).

[edit] References

  1. ^ Highest Rank Awards of the Boy Scouts of America. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  2. ^ Ranger and Silver Awards Past and Present. Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  3. ^ A History of Senior Scouting Programs in the BSA: Explorer Scouts (1933-1949). Retrieved on 2007-08-14.
  4. ^ "Rangers Rock!" (November-December 1999). Scouting. 

Ranger Handbook/Venturer Handbook, 2006

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