As a life long "scouter" (so far) I have to say scout badges are pretty hit and miss. It depends on your troop and on the badge whether you learn much on it. (

As a life long "scouter" (so far) I have to say scout badges are pretty hit and miss. It depends on your troop and on the badge whether you learn much on it. (example; this would be useless in my local scout troop who's focus is generally on water sports [canoing] and hiking/camping - i.e. the physical stuff. They would probably award it based on little effort (and yes, I did use this "hack" to amass a huge quantity of badges in my time :)) Not that I'm dissing it :) just seems unusual for a Scout badge.