<Requirements>
  <Rank name="Pre-Scout">
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Scout">
    <MeritBadgeCount>0</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>0</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Meet age requirements: Be a boy who has completed the fifth grade, or is 11 years old, or has earned the Arrow of Light Award, but is under 18 years old.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Complete a Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Find a Scout Troop near your home. (To find a troop, contact your local Boy Scout Council. The Council name, address and phone number can be found on BSA's Council Locator Page.)</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Demonstrate tying the square knot (a joining knot).</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7">Understand and agree to live by the Scout Oath or Promise, Law, Motto, and Slogan, and the Outdoor Code.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8">Describe the Scout badge.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9">Complete the Pamphlet Exercises: With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet "How to Protect Your Children from Child Abuse: A Parent's Guide".</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="10">Participate in a Scoutmaster conference. Turn in your Boy Scout application and health history form signed by your parent or guardian, then participate in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Tenderfoot">
    <MeritBadgeCount>0</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>0</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Present yourself to your leader, properly dressed, before going on an overnight camping trip. Show the camping gear you will use. Show the right way to pack and carry it.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Spend at least one night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in a tent you have helped pitch.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">On the campout, assist in preparing and cooking one of your patrol's meals. Tell why it is important for each patrol member to share in meal preparation and cleanup, and explain the importance of eating together.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4a">Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4b">Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell what their uses are: two half hitches and the tautline hitch.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on the highway and cross-country, during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American flag.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7">Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath, Law, motto, and slogan.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8">Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9">Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="10a">Record your best in the following tests: Pushups, Pull-ups, Sit-ups, Standing Long Jump, 1/4-mile Walk/Run (done twice, 30 days apart)</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="10b">Show improvement in the activities listed in requirement 10a after practicing for 30 days.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="11">Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them. </Requirement>
    <Requirement index="12a">Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="12b">Show first aid for the following: Simple cuts and scratches, Blisters on the hand and foot, Minor burns or scalds (first degree), Bites or stings of insects and ticks, Poisonous snakebite, Nosebleed, Frostbite and sunburn</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="13">Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="14">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Second Class">
    <MeritBadgeCount>0</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>0</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1a">Demonstrate how a compass works and how to orient a map. Explain what map symbols mean.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="1b">Using a compass and a map together,take a 5-mile hike (or 10 miles by bike) approved by your adult leader and your parent or guardian.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2a">Since joining, have participated in five separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), two of which included camping overnight.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2b">On one of these campouts, select your patrol site and sleep in a tent that you pitched.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2c">On one campout, demonstrate proper care, sharpening, and use of the knife, saw, and ax, and describe when they should be used.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2d">Use the tools listed in requirement 2c to prepare tinder, kindling, and fuel for a cooking fire.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2e">Discuss when it is appropriate to use a cooking fire and a lightweight stove. Discuss the safety procedures for using both..</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2f">Demonstrate how to light a fire and a lightweight stove.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2g">On one campout, plan and cook over an open fire one hot breakfast or lunch for yourself, selecting foods from the four basic food groups. Explain the importance of good nutrition. Tell how to transport, store, and prepare the foods you selected.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Participate in a flag ceremony for your school, religious institution, chartered organization, community, or troop activity.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">Participate in an approved (minimum of one hour) service project.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of wild animals (birds, mammals, reptiles, fish, mollusks) found in your community.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6a">Show what to do for &quot;hurry&quot; cases of stopped breathing, serious bleeding, and internal poisoning.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6b">Prepare a personal first aid kit to take with you on a hike.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6c">Demonstrate first aid for the following: Object in the eye; Bite of a suspected rabid animal; Puncture wounds from a splinter, nail, and fish hook; Serious burns (second degree); Heat exhaustion; Shock; Heatstroke, dehydration, hypothermia, and hyperventilation.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7a">Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe swim.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7b">Demonstrate your ability to jump feetfirst into water over your head in depth, level off and swim 25 feet on the surfasce, stop, turn sharply, resume swimming, then return to your starting place. This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7c">Demonstrate water rescue methods by reaching with your arm or leg, by reaching with a suitable object, and by throwing lines and objects. This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7d">Explain why swimming rescues should not be attempted when a reaching or throwing rescue is possible, and explain why and how a rescue swimmer should avoid contact with the victim.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8">Participate in a school, community, or troop program on the dangers of using drugs, alcohol, and tobacco, and other practices that could be harmful to your health. Discuss your participation in the program with your family.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="10">Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="11">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="First Class">
    <MeritBadgeCount>0</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>0</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Demonstrate how to find directions during the day and at night without using a compass.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Using a compass, complete an orienteering course that covers at least one mile and requires measuring the height and/or width of designated items (tree, tower, canyon, ditch, etc.)</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Since joining, have participated in ten separate troop/patrol activities (other than troop/patrol meetings), three of which included camping overnight.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4a">Help plan a patrol menu for one campout -- including one breakfast, lunch, and dinner - that requires cooking. Tell how the menu includes the four basic food groups and meets nutritional needs.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4b">Using the menu planned in requirement 4a, make a list showing the cost and food amounts needed to feed three or more boys and secure the ingredients.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4c">Tell which pans, utensils, and other gear will be needed to cook and serve these meals.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4d">Explain the procedures to follow in the safe handling and storage of fresh meats, dairy products, eggs, vegetables, and other perishable food products. Tell how to properly dispose of camp garbage, cans, plastic containers, and other rubbish.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4e">On one campout, serve as your patrol's cook. Supervise your assistant(s) in using a stove or building a cooking fire. Prepare the breakfast, lunch, and dinner planned in requirement 4a. Lead your patrol in saying grace at the meals and supervise cleanup.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Visit and discuss with a selected individual approved by your leader (elected official, judge, attorney, civil servant, principal, teacher) your Constitutional rights and obligations as a U.S. citizen.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Identify or show evidence of at least ten kinds of native plants found in your community.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7a">Discuss when you should and should not use lashings</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7b">Demonstrate tying the timber hitch and clove hitch and their use in square, shear, and diagonal lashings by joining two or more poles or staves together.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7c">Use lashing to make a useful camp gadget.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8a">Demonstrate tying the bowline knot and describe several ways it can be used.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8b">Demonstrate bandages for a sprained ankle. and for injuries on the head, the upper arm, and the collarbone.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8c">Show how to transport by yourself, and with one other person, a person: from a smoke-filled room, and with a sprained ankle, for at least 25 yards.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="8d">Tell the five most common signs of a heart attack. Explain the steps (procedures) in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR).</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9a">Tell what precautions must be taken for a safe trip afloat.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9b">Successfully complete the BSA swimmer test.  This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9c">Demonstrate survival skills by leaping into deep water wearing clothes (shoes, socks, swim trunks, long pants, belt, and long sleeved shirt). Remove shoes and socks, inflate the shirt, and show that you can float using the shirt for support. Remove and inflate the pants for support. Swim 50 feet using the inflated pants for support, then show how to reinflate the pants while using them for support. This requirement may be waived by the troop committee for medical or safety reasons.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="9d">With a helper and a practice victim, show a line rescue both as tender and as rescuer. (The practice victim should be approximately 30 feet from shore in deep water.) </Requirement>
    <Requirement index="10">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="11">Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="12">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Star">
    <MeritBadgeCount>6</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>4</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 4 months as a First Class Scout.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Earn 6 merit badges, including 4 from the required list for Eagle.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">While a First Class Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">While a First Class Scout, serve actively 4 months in one or more of the positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop) listed in the official requirements.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Life">
    <MeritBadgeCount>11</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>7</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Star Scout.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Earn 5 more merit badges (so that you have 11 in all), including any 3 more from the required list for Eagle.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">While a Star Scout, take part in service projects totaling at least 6 hours of work. These projects must be approved by your Scoutmaster.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">While a Star Scout, serve actively 6 months in one or more of the positions of responsibility listed in requirement 5 for Star Scout (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop).</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Take part in a Scoutmaster conference</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Eagle">
    <MeritBadgeCount>21</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>10</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 6 months as a Life Scout.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Earn a total of 21 merit badges (10 more than you already have), including the following:</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3a">First Aid</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3b">Citizenship in the Community</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3c">Citizenship in the Nation</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3d">Citizenship in the World</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3e">Communications</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3f">Personal Fitness</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3g">Emergency Preparedness OR Lifesaving</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3h">Environmental Science</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3i">Personal Management</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3j">Swimming OR Hiking OR Cycling</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3k">Camping, and</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3l">Family Life. ( You must choose only one merit badge listed in items g and j. If you have earned more than one of the badges listed in items g and j, choose one and list the remaining badges to make your total of 21.)</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">While a Life Scout, serve actively for 6 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility: Boy Scout troop. Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor. Varsity Scout team. Captain, cocaptain, program manager, squad leader, team secretary, librarian, quartermaster, chaplain aide, instructor, or den chief.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">While a Life Scout, plan, develop, and give leadership to others in a service project helpful to any religious institution, any school, or your community. (The project should benefit an organization other than Boy Scouting.) The project idea must be approved by your Scoutmaster and troop committee and approved by the council or district before you start. You must use the Life to Eagle Packet, BSA Publication No. 18-927, in meeting this requirement.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Take part in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="7">Successfully complete an Eagle Scout board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Bronze Palm">
    <MeritBadgeCount>26</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>10</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after the award of your last Palm.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Make a satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or last Palm..</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Take Part in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Gold Palm">
    <MeritBadgeCount>31</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>10</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after the award of your last Palm.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Make a satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or last Palm..</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Take Part in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
  <Rank name="Silver Palm">
    <MeritBadgeCount>36</MeritBadgeCount>
    <RequiredCount>10</RequiredCount>
    <Requirement index="1">Be active in your troop and patrol for at least 3 months after becoming an Eagle Scout or after the award of your last Palm.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="2">Demonstrate Scout spirit by living the Scout Oath (Promise) and Scout Law in your everyday life.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="3">Make a satisfactory effort to develop and demonstrate leadership ability.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="4">Earn five additional merit badges beyond those required for Eagle or last Palm..</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="5">Take Part in a Scoutmaster conference.</Requirement>
    <Requirement index="6">Complete your board of review.</Requirement>
  </Rank>
</Requirements>
