For the first time Troop 23B met at the church at 3 for a 3:15 departure, to head to the Coast Guard Training Center in Cape May New Jersey. After a 2.5-hour drive, we arrived at camp.   Isn’t that crazy early time for us to arrive at camp?

The troop all set up their tents and then we went to the playground and the baseball field to have fun and mess around. We watched the Coast Guard Cadets train while we had a good time.  When it got dark, we all slowly went to bed listening to the crickets’ chirping and waves crashing on the beach.
We woke up around 6:15 to put on our class A’s and went to breakfast at 6:30. The food in the galley was good.   We went back to camp, put on our Class Bs and got ready for a self-guided tour of the base from Ben Plichta. We heard some amazing history that Ben read for us and went to the base store. The CGX (as it is called) had anything you would want, basically a mini-Walmart.  After shopping, we went to the cutters for a tour. The Coast Guard Cutters are their patrol ships.  The troops split into two groups, and we toured both cutters that were both in port. The cutters belonged to the FRC class of ships.  After the tours we went straight to lunch.

After lunch, the troop split into different groups, some went to the fire department for a small tour, or went swimming, or went to the base store.  For those that chose the tour or the store, they met up at the galley.  The troop was playing pool football with a volleyball. Some of the scouts were having fun on the diving board. We had an early dinner at around 4:30. After dinner, the troops split up again. Most of the troop went to the beach and went swimming while others stayed back and hung out. Once everyone returned, we all went to the playground and the baseball field. We had a good game of baseball on Saturday night and played until it got too dark to play. Then we chillaxed, some watched a movie, some went to bed listening to the waves crash on the beach with the stars out and crickets chirping on a cooler night.

On Sunday, we were up by 6:15 and went to breakfast at 6:30. Once breakfast was over, we packed up our gear and left to go back to the church.

Training Center Cape May, NJ

-Sean Herzog
This is for Communication Merit Badge

Knot of the week (for winter auction points) starts next week

First knot is the square knot, show Gavin Riley once tied

Peanuts protrol won the relay competition 

Merit badge books are available to take for free

Dear Summer Camp parents:

26 scouts came

Rank ups: Johnathan and Andrew got scout, Ryan got tenderfoot

A new scout was introduced

Radio merit badge, zoom dates: June 16th and 23rd. Live meeting 28th contact Jeremy Carlo at Jcarlo@caa.colombia.edu and http://marc-radio.org/ is their website

Any scout wishing to do the start or finish tenderfoot fitness requirement, come to the church at 6:30. Bring a water bottle, wear clothing for exercising bring your uniform to change into afterwards.