USATODAY.com - Scouts' plan: 'Be Prepared'

USATODAY.com - Scouts' plan: 'Be Prepared': "the motto 'Be Prepared.' Preparedness has been a recent theme for Scouts who have been working to increase citizen preparedness. About 17,400 Scouts and leaders in the past year have received an emergency preparedness award endorsed by the Department of Homeland Security. Five hundred were congratulated at a ceremony Saturday.
'The patch was so popular that we didn't have enough,' spokesman Gregg Shields said. All recipients have completed first aid courses, trained with local fire or police departments and compiled emergency plans and kits, including flashlights, maps and necessary supplies to bring to the jamboree, which takes place every four years. "