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LONDON MILLS Surrounded in darkness by driving winds and rain, with a tornado nearby, about 200 Boy Scouts and their chaperones faced a scary situation last weekend.
Some of the children who were spending the week at Ingersoll Scout Reservation were driven to tears by the storm. It struck about 11 p.m. June 18.
As the next morning dawned, it became clear damage was extensive around the 960-acre Boy Scouts of America camp located along the Fulton-Knox county border. Summer camp scheduled for this week was postponed.
Those who rode out the storm emerged uninjured. According to some of them, that might be attributable to a time-honored Boy Scout motto:
39 CAMP HANSEN, OKINAWA, Japan U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Jacob A. Moses is a combat marksmanship coach with Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations Pacific.
As a CMC, Moses trains hundreds of Marines every year on rifle-combat marksmanship. He trains Marines from the beginning of grass week through table two, a two-week process, in which Moses can train anywhere from 15 to 40 Marines.
“The Marine Corps is a war fighting institution,” says Moses. “We fight wars with firearms. If somebody can t shoot a rifle, they are not going to be able to be useful on the battlefield; our first and foremost thing is to be ready for war at any point.”