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2025 Yearbook

Celebrate your Eagle Scout with the Class of 2025 Commemorative Yearbook, now available to order.

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Eagle Scouts who join NESA within one year of their board of review date will receive a 15% discount on a 5-year or Lifetime membership.

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Give your Eagle pride a purpose with membership in the National Eagle Scout Association. Your membership empowers Scouting’s mission, protects the Eagle Scout legacy, and keeps Eagle alumni connected.

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Eagle Pride Showcase

Eagle Pride Showcase shows the contribution of NESA members to the mission, vision, and delivery of Scouting programs in communities across the country.

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Give Your Eagle Pride A Purpose

As a member of the National Eagle Scout Association, you further the mission, values, and time-honored traditions of Scouting in your community and our country. Give your Eagle pride a purpose by joining NESA today; the future is in your hands.

Eagle Pride Showcase

Showcase the moments in your life that exemplify the best of Scouting in your units, family, community, or workplace.

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COL Benitez has returned from two recent deployments to the Middle East and from ARNORTH, serving as Chief of Professional Services. He is now working as US Army North Emergency Preparedness Liaison Officer for Tennessee.

In February, the Three Fires Council honored 263 Scouts from the 2024 Eagle Class. During the event, William Hollister received the NOESA Award, joined on stage by fellow recipients.

Meet the Matt Thomson family—a three-generation legacy of Eagle Scouts.

Matthew is pictured with his Eagle Scout father, James, holding a shadow box that contains Matthew’s great-grandfather’s Eagle Medal.

Eagle Scout Judge Omar Aboulhosn has served as a United States Magistrate Judge for the Southern District of West Virginia since 2016.

NESA Pittsburgh Chapter Board Member Michael Sipper has been awarded a prestigious Fulbright U.S. Student Award to Azerbaijan for the 2025–2026 academic year. His remarkable achievements and dedication reflect the global impact of the Eagle Scout legacy.

Currently serving as the National Commander for the Military Order of the Purple Heart (MOPH), which is a veteran's service organization comprised of combat wounded veterans.

Willie Ore received the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Old North State Council on April 4, 2024.

William Kropa, Chairman of the Marine Corps League's National Scout Committee, was congratulated by the National Commandant of the Marine Corps League, for being selected to receive the Silver Antelope. The award was presented at the NAM event in Atlanta, GA, on May 31, 2023.

All four boys of the Fizer family earned the rank of Eagle Scout. The photo was taken at the newest Eagle Scout brother’s, Jordan, Court of Honor.

Duane has returned home, where he earned his Eagle, to volunteer as the charted org rep for two local units. He has served the Missouri VFW State Scouting Team for the past fifteen years.

Dr. Tim Hoyt was appointed to the Senior Executive Service and serves as the Deputy Director for Force Resiliency in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel & Readiness.

October 10th, 2023, Quivira Council invited our Eagle Scout Alumni to gather and fellowship.

Bram Duffee recently graduated with a Ph.D. in Human Development from Fielding Graduate University.

COL Scott Preston just completed three years commanding the US Army Corps of Engineers - Tulsa District in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He is now the Defense Coordinating Officer for FEMA Region 7 in Kansas City, MO.

Troop 13 celebrates 93 years of Scouting with three new Eagle Scouts

Father and son Eagle Scouts from Utah.

Eagle Scout David Bader received one of the highest awards in computing for inventing commodity-based supercomputing.

Lifetime NESA member Vincent earns every merit badge before turning eighteen.

Ben Weingarten celebrates earning his Eagle with his Distinguished Eagle Scout Grandfather and Father.

Robert 'Bob' Beggs receives the NESA Outstanding Eagle Scout Award from the Chester County Council. Bob is joined by his wife, Erin, and Distinguished Eagle Scout Gary Schroeder, May 2022.

Thomas Proctor, Director of Institutional Research at McLennan Community College, received the 2025 NISOD Excellence Award, honoring his exceptional work in higher education.

Named the United States National Junior Firefighter of the Year by the National Volunteer Fire Council at their annual awards gala in Washington, DC, for my Eagle Scout Service Project recruiting volunteer firefighters. Now a full member of those departments, I am proud to be a fourth-generation BSA member, a third-generation firefighter, and a second-generation Eagle Scout who earned the Glenn & Melinda Adams Eagle Scout Project of the Year award from the Monmouth Council.

Thomas is a third-generation Eagle Scout. His older brother, cousin, and uncle are also Eagle Scouts.

2023 National Jamboree

July 19 - 28, 2023

Jamboree is more than a destination. It’s the adventure of lifetime. And there is simply nothing else like it on the planet.

What’s a Jamboree? It’s not camp. National Jamboree is 360-degrees of fun, friends and fellowship with hands-on adventure that takes you places you never thought you’d go and challenge you to try things you never thought you could.

It’s the beginning of your own heroes’ journey that will challenge you to go farther than you ever thought possible. You’ll reach deeper and lift yourself higher to become the best version of yourself.

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