Requirements June 1948 until November 1959

To become a FIRST CLASS SCOUT, you do the following;

I. Scout Sprit

While a Second Class Scout, satisfy your Scout leaders that you do your best, in your everyday life, to live up to:

1. The Scout Oath or Promise
2. The Scout Law
3. The Scout Motto
4. The Scout Slogan
5. Scout Participation

II. Scout Participation

While a Second Class Scout, show to the satisfaction of your Scout leaders that you:

1. Work actively in Patrol and Troop meetings, outdoor activities and service projects.
2. Do your share in helping in your home, your school, your church and your community.
3. Take care of things that belong to you, the property of others, and your county’s natural resources.
4. Maintain a personal savings plan (such as regular payments into a savings account or into a savings project sponsored by your family or Troop).

III. Scoutcraft

1. Prepare for Scout Camping

1. Clothing and Equipment – Present yourself for inspection suitably clothed for the locality, season and the weather, and equipped and packed for an overnight camp.
2. Health Protection – Explain methods used in camp for care of food and drinking water, fire protection and waste disposal.
3. First Aid – Give artificial respiration for three minutes. Explain danger of taking laxative for pain in stomach. Improvise a sterile dressing. Use triangular bandage for arm sling and as binder for wounds on head, hand, knee and foot. Demonstrate first aid for one problem from each of the following groups (problems to be chosen by your leader after you have trained for all of them):

Arterial bleeding from face, throat, arm, leg.
Shock, heat exhaustion, sunstroke, frostbite, internal poisoning.
Puncture wounds from splinter, nail, fishhook, dog bite, poisonous snake bite.
Fracture of collarbone, upper arm, forearm, lower leg.

Explain under what circumstances a person should or should not be moved. Improvise a stretcher and, with helpers, under your direction, transport a presumably unconscious person.

2. GET THE LAY OF THE LAND

1. Directions – Lay out on the ground a true north-south line with the help of a watch and the sun by day and the North Star by night, and a magnetic north-side line using a compass.
2. Measuring – With simple means and using your own personal measurements, determine a height you cannot reach (such as a tree) and a width you cannot walk (such as a river or a canyon).
3. Map Sketching – Select a site suitable for a Patrol camp and make a map sketch for laying it out. Make a map sketch by which someone unfamiliar with your camp location can find his way to it over a distance of at least two miles.

3. LIVE IN CAMP

1. Camp Making – Sharpen an axe and use it for cutting light wood into tent pegs. Locate a tent site and pitch a tent, fastening the guy line with a taut-line hitch. Prepare a comfortable ground bed. Improvise a piece of camp equipment requiring lashings.
2. Wood Lore – Find and identify ten different shrubs or trees Tell their uses.

4. COOK YOUR MEALS

1. Camp Cookery – Prepare in the open, for yourself and a companion from raw ingredients, a complete breakfast of fruit, hot cereal and bacon-and-eggs (or griddle cakes); and a complete dinner of meat (or fish or poultry), vegetable, dessert, and bread (or biscuits, or a twist baked on a stick).
2. Edible Wild Plants – Find and identify four different edible wild greens, roots, or fruits.

5. Go Swimming

Swimming – Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. Jump feet first into water over your head in depth. Swim fifty yards. During the swim, stop, make a sharp turn, level off and resume swimming.

6. Get a Signal Through

Morse Signaling – Morse Signaling – Know the International Morse Code, including necessary procedure signals. Using this code, send and receive, by any suitable means, a message of 20 words (100 letters) over a distance of at least 100 yards.

7. Go Camping

The First Class Camp – After you have done the above, prove yourself a Scout Camper by camping, properly clothed and equipped, on a suitable camp site for not less than twenty-four hours with your Patrol (or, if this is impossible, with at least one companion approved by your Scoutmaster). During this camp, cook at least one hot meal, sleeping in tent or improvised shelter or under the stars, keeping camp clean and safe, and leaving campsite in good condition.

Requirements November 1959 until September 1965

To become a FIRST CLASS SCOUT, you must do the following:

SCOUT TEAMWORK

While a Second Class Scout for at least thirty days, show to the satisfaction of your Scout leaders that you:

1. Work actively in patrol and troop meetings and outdoor activities.
2. Take part regularly and willingly in service projects.

SCOUTCRRFT

1. PREPARE FOR SCOUT CAMPING

Clothing and Equipment—Present yourself for inspection suitably clothed for the locality, season, and weather and equipped and packed for an overnight camp.

2. LAY OUT YOUR CAMP

1. Camp Site—Select a site suitable for a patrol camp and explain your reasons for picking it.
2. Directions—Lay out on the ground a magnetic north- south line using a compass and a true north-south line with the help of the sun by day, the North Star by night.
3. Measuring—With simple means and using your personal measurements, determine a height you cannot reach (such as a tree) and a width you cannot walk (such as a river or canyon).
4. Mapping—Make a map sketch of your camp and a map sketch by which someone unfamiliar with your camp location can find his way to it over a distance of at least two miles.

3. LIVE IN CAMP

1. Camp Making—Sharpen an axe and use it for cutting light wood into tent pegs. Locate a tent site and pitch a tent, fastening the guy lines with taut-line hitches. Prepare a comfortable ground bed. Make a piece of camp equipment requiring lashings.
2. Camp Health—Explain methods used in camp for care of food and drinking water, fire protection, and waste disposal.
3. Wood Lore—Find ten kinds of wild trees or shrubs. Tell what they are and explain their uses.

4. COOK YOUR MEALS

1. Camp Cookery—Construct a simple outdoor fireplace and use it to prepare for yourself and a companion, from raw ingredients, a complete breakfast of fruit, hot cereal, and bacon and eggs (or pancakes) and a complete dinner of meat (or fish or poultry), vegetable, dessert, and bread (or biscuits, or twist baked on a stick). Clean up thoroughly afterwards.
2. Edible Wild Plants—Find at least four different edible wild greens, roots, or fruits. Tell what they are and how to prepare them for eating.

5. GO SWIMMING

Swimming*—Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim. Jump feet first into water over your head in depth. Swim 50 yards. During the swim, stop, make a sharp turn, level off and resume swimming.

6. GET A MESSAGE THROUGH

Morse Signaling—Know the International Morse code, including necessary procedure signals. Using this code, send and receive, by any suitable means, a message of twenty words (one hundred letters) over a distance of at least 100 yards.

7. BE PREPARED FOR ACCIDENTS

1. First Aid—Satisfy your examiner that you have retained your Second Class first aid knowledge. Improvise a sterile Use triangular bandage (Scout neckerchief) for arm sling and as binder for wounds on head, hand, knee, foot. Explain'first aid for puncture wounds from splinter, nail, fishhook, dog bite, poisonous snake bite, heat exhaustion, sun- stroke, frostbite. Explain danger of taking laxative for pain in stomach. Demonstrate first aid for fracture of collarbone, upper arm, forearm, lower leg.
2. Transportation of Injured—Tell under what circum- stances an injured person should or should not be moved. Demonstrate walking assist, one-m.xn and two-man carries. Improvise a stretcher and, with helpers under your direction, transport a presumably unconscious person.

8. GO CAMPING

The First Class Test Camp—After you have done the above, prove yourself a Scout camper by camping, properly clothed and equipped, on a suitable camp site for not less than twenty-four hours with your patrol (or with at least one companion approved by your Scoutmaster). During this camp, cook at least one hot meal, sleep in a tent or improvised shelter or under the stars, keep camp clean and safe, and leave camp site in good condition.

SCOUT SPIRIT

While a Second Class Scout, satisfy your Scout leaders that you do your best, in your everyday life, to—

1. Live up to the Scout Oath or Promise, the Scout Law, the Scout motto, and the Scout slogan.
2. Do your share in helping in your home, your school, your church or synagogue, and your community.
3. Take care of things that belong to you and maintain a per- sonal savings plan.
4. Respect the property of others and help conserve your country’s natural resources. ^*

*Note on the First Class swimming test

Under certain very exceptional conditions, where the climate keeps the water cold the year round, and/or where there are no suitable and accessible places (outdoors or indoors) within a reasonable traveling distance to swim at any time during the year, or in cases where a physician certifies that the Scout’s physical condition for an indeterminable time does not permit swimming, the advancement committee of the local council may authorize a substitution for the First Class swim.

In EACH individual case, application for a substitution must be made in advance by the Scoutmaster to the advancement committee on the special standard form provided for this purpose, Application for Substitution for Basic Scout Requires, ents (No. 4434), and a specific substitution from among
those indicated on the application form must be approved in writing by the committee after thorough review.