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The senior General MacArthur noticed a disturbing lack of rifle skill during the Spanish American War and so founded the School of Musketry in Fort Ord back in 1904. It was later moved to Fort Benning Georgia in 1917(?). The NRA started even earlier trying to address the lack of shooting skills at the closing of the American Frontier.

The Scouts were more ambitious. But because they not only taught fieldcraft but morals and a way of life, they were targeted by those opposed to such way of life. This is the curse of having standards. Those who don't want to be held to even a moderate standard of behavior do their best to destroy those pesky inconvenient morals. The Scouts were ridiculed as "goody two-shoes" and destroyed by homosexuals and atheists. After all, it is much cooler to do drugs than to be strong and straight and a credit to your community.