>>977080so many weird and unexplained things.
Main thing I remember was noticing that our staff tents had electrical hookups. First thing my tentmate and I did was buy an AC unit and hook that bad boy up. How the hell we didn't burn the tent down or get it taken away I'll never know, we mustve wasted so much electricity.
>3 weeks later all the tents had oneI also remember CoD 4 and Halo lan parties between tents. One was the default "gaming tent" with Christmas lights, mini fridge, and two tv' XBOx 360's. Did a lot of split screen stuff and had a lot of laughs.
As the wilderness survival merit badge guy, I got a lot of good stories too. I had a small bookshelf in my area so I stocked it with random books to mess with scouts, things like old army field manuals about avoiding detection, zombie survival guides, etc. First question every goddamn week
>Can I drink my own pee?"No, bear Grylls does it because he's insane, use a filter like a sane person or if you're really desperate use the evaporation trick (can't remember what it's called, essentially you piss around the edge of a hole, stick a cup in, and then cover it with certain wrap so the water evaporates up to the wrap and drips down clean into the cup) I would then warn them that if I caught someone drinking their piss I would fail them on the spot.
>"How do we get to be good like bear Grylls?"By realizing that you are not him and 60% of the shit he does would get you killed.
A lot of the kids were great, they asked stupid questions because they were excited and the "survival night" where they built their own shelters was awesome. So many crazy ideas that shouldn't have worked but they pulled it off. Definitely my favorite badge I taught.
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