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Tenderfoot

The Tenderfoot rank requirements were revised effective January 1, 1998.

NOTE: These requirements may be worked on simultaneously with those for Second Class and First Class; 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.
1. Demonstrate how to whip and fuse the ends of a rope.
2. Demonstrate you know how to tie the following knots and 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, and slogan.
• Know your patrol name, give the patrol yell, and describe your patrol flag.
• Explain why we use the buddy system in Scouting.
1. Record your best in the following tests: Pushups, Pull-ups, Sit-ups, Standing long jump, Run/walk approximately one quarter mile.
2. Show improvement in the activities listed above after practicing for 30 days.
• Identify local poisonous plants; tell how to treat for exposure to them.
1. Demonstrate the Heimlich maneuver and tell when it is used.
2. Show first aid for the following:
• Simple cuts and scratches,
• Blisters on the hand and foot,
• Minor burns or scalds (first degree),
• Bites and stings of insects and ticks,
• Poisonous snakebite,
• Nosebleed,
• Frostbite and Sunburn
• Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.
• Complete your board of review.