If the gentleman will yield back for a moment, I owed the Army 4 years from an Army scholarship to Texas A&M. From the years of being a Boy Scout, I was good at orienteering, which is the process of taking a map and a compass and finding your way from point A to point B and getting back. Those were things that were important to know when you were in the Army. There is no question that I was quite good at it in the Army because I'd had fantastic training in the Boy Scouts. It was the same way when learning to fire a .22 out on the range as a very young Boy Scout. The first day was the camping, the cooking. It was all about this planet and the things that occupy the planet--this amazing creation that God provided to us, which we learned and studied and had to spend a great deal of time becoming so acquainted with as Boy Scouts.
Louie Gohmert: “If the gentleman will yield back for a moment, I owed the Army 4 years from an Army scholarship to Texas A&M. From the…”
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The speaker reflects on the skills and values learned from Boy Scouts and their application in military service.
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