Boy Scouts of
America
Troop 256
Capital Area Council - Comanche District
Bannockburn Baptist Church - Austin, Texas
Boy
Scout Rank Requirements
Tenderfoot
Rank Requirements
The requirements for Tenderfoot, Second Class,
and First Class ranks may be worked on simultaneously; however, these
ranks must be earned in sequence.
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.
Spend at least 1 night on a patrol or troop campout. Sleep in
a tent you have helped pitch on a ground bed you have prepared.
Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and tell
what their uses are: two half hitches and the tautline hitch.
Explain the rules of safe hiking, both on a highway and cross-country,
during the day and at night. Explain what to do if you are lost.
Demonstrate how to display, raise, lower, and fold the American
flag.
Repeat from memory and explain in your own words the Scout Oath,
Law, motto, and slogan.
Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your
patrol flag.
Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
Record your best in the following tests:
Pushups _______
Pull-ups _______
Sit-ups _______
Standing long jump _______ft _______in
Run/walk approximately one quarter mile. _______
Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing
for 30 days.
Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure
to them.
Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
