More than 100,000 Sea Scouts volunteered after Pearl Harbor. Admiral Chester Nimitz reportedly said that the Sea Scouts were crucial to the Navy's ability to regroup after that disaster
I didn't know this fact and it makes me even prouder of the Scouts I know, including my son who just joined a "trekker troop" because he thought the traditional troops in the area were just a little to soft for his tastes...
a little to soft for his tastes
That just didn't come out right...no wait
Their activites just weren't what interested him!!(smacking head against cubical wall....)