[Myrddin]

After I departed my troop, I heard stories about specific scouts that I knew from the troop. It turns out that some of them were queer and preying on the younger scouts on camping trips. One of the assistant scoutmasters was caught molesting young children at the daycare facility operated by his wife. He went to prison. His son dropped out of sight. The "two deep" rules appeared after I left. That would not have done anything to stop the predatory scouts going after other scouts.

[editor-surveyor]

In the first troop I was in, the scoutmaster was a neighborhood child abuser (a thug). He was also a High School teacher. He tried to suffocate the younger brother of my best friend by shoving a garden hose down his throat and turning on the water.

I was really glad to get out of that troop!

The next troop I joined was fabulous. The scoutmaster was an ex marine who had served in recon in the Phillipines in WW II. We did all kinds of things, like build boats and take them down the Sacramento river from near Shasta dam to Sacramento, and the scoutmaster was the only adult with us (he’d be jailed for that now I guess - child endangerment or some such crap).