The 2005 National Scout Jamboree was the 16th national Scout jamboree

National Scout jamboree (Boy Scouts of America)

The national Scout jamboree is a gathering, or jamboree of thousands of members of the Boy Scouts of America, usually held every four years and organized by the National Council of the Boy Scouts of America. Referred to as "the Jamboree", "Jambo", or NSJ, Scouts from all over the nation and world...

 of the Boy Scouts of America

Boy Scouts of America

The Boy Scouts of America is one of the largest youth organizations in the United States, with over 4.5 million youth members in its age-related divisions...

 and was held from July 25, 2005 through August 3, 2005 at Fort A.P. Hill

Fort A.P. Hill

Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia, is an active duty installation of the United States Army, located near the town of Bowling Green, Virginia.Named for Confederate Lieutenant General Ambrose Powell Hill, Fort A.P...

, Virginia

Virginia

The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...

. Normally, the next jamboree would be held four years afterward in 2009, but the date was changed so that the next jamboree could take place in 2010, the centennial

Century

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 anniversary of Scouting in the United States.

Statistics

• Over 31,700 Youth attended, making up the 883 jamboree troops present.
• Scouts from 26 Nations attended.
• More than 7,000 adults volunteered to provide support and program services.
• Each jamboree troop is made up of 36 youth, consisting of 4 patrols of 8 scouts, and 4 youth leaders (senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, quartermaster and scribe) selected from various units in their local council.
• For the 10 day event Caroline County
  Caroline County, Virginia
  Caroline County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of 2010, the population was 28,545. Its county seat is Bowling Green. Caroline County is also home to The Meadow stables, the birthplace of the renowned racehorse Secretariat, winner of the 1973 Kentucky Derby, Preakness and...
  
   went from the 50th most populated county in Virginia to the 14th.

List of sub-camps

The 2005 National Scout Jamboree was divided into 20 sub-camps, named after living American explorers. The subcamps were then grouped into four Regions.

Northeast

1:William I. Koch Troops 0100-0199

2:Dr. S. Allen Counter Troops 0200-0299

3:Steven W. Squyres Troops 0300-0399

4:José I. Castro Troops 0400-0499

5:Michael Manyak Troops 0500-0599

Western

6:Steve Fossett

Steve Fossett

James Stephen Fossett was an American commodities trader, businessman, and adventurer. Fossett is the first person to fly solo nonstop around the world in a balloon...

 Troops 0600-0699

7:Ken Kamler Troops 0700-0799

8:James A. Lovell Troops 0800-0899

9:Jim Whittaker

Jim Whittaker

James W. Whittaker, also known as Jim Whittaker is an American mountaineer.As a member of the American Mount Everest Expedition 1963 led by Norman Dyhrenfurth, he was the first American to reach the summit of Mount Everest. He summited on May 1, 1963 with the Sherpa Nawang Gombu...

 Troops 0900-0999

Central

10:Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom....

 Troops 1000-1099

11:Scott Carpenter

Scott Carpenter

Malcolm Scott Carpenter is an American engineer, former test pilot, astronaut, and aquanaut. He is best known as one of the original seven astronauts selected for NASA's Project Mercury in April 1959....

 Troops 1100-1199

12:James Dewey Watson Troops 1200-1299

13:Don Walsh

Don Walsh

Don Walsh is an American oceanographer, explorer and marine policy specialist. He and Jacques Piccard were aboard the bathyscaphe Trieste when it made a record maximum descent into the Mariana Trench on 23 January 1960, the deepest point of the world's ocean...

 Troops 1300-1399

14:Richard C. Wiese Troops 1400-1499

Southern

15:Robert Ballard

Robert Ballard

Robert Duane Ballard is a former United States Navy officer and a professor of oceanography at the University of Rhode Island who is most noted for his work in underwater archaeology. He is most famous for the discoveries of the wrecks of the RMS Titanic in 1985, the battleship Bismarck in 1989,...

 Troops 1500-1599

16:Richard Wiese Sr

Richard Wiese Sr

Richard Wiese entered the record books on August 14, 1959 when he became the first pilot to solo an airplane across the Pacific Ocean. The route was from San Francisco, California to Brisbane, Australia...

 Troops 1600-1699

17:Donald C. Johanson Troops 1700-1799

18:William Forgey Troops 1800-1899

19:Joseph Kittinger Jr.

Joseph Kittinger

Joseph William Kittinger II is a former Command Pilot and career military officer in the United States Air Force. He is most famous for his participation in Project Manhigh and Project Excelsior, holding the records for having the highest, fastest and longest skydive, from a height greater than...

 Troops 1900-1999

20:Will Steger

Will Steger

Will Steger is a prominent spokesperson for the understanding and preservation of the Arctic and has led some of the most significant feats in the field of dogsled expeditions; such as the first confirmed dogsled journey to the North Pole in 1986, the 1,600-mile south-north traverse of Greenland...

 Troops 2000-2099

Arena Shows

Three Arena Shows were planned to be held during the jamboree. Allan Gibbs was the director of Arena Operations.

The first Arena Show was held on July 27, 2005. The first show was a staff show, and a youth arena staff member served as MC. The show also featured a staff barbecue and a speech from the Chief Scout Executive, as well as a preview for what was to come during the rest of the week.

President George W. Bush

George W. Bush

George Walker Bush is an American politician who served as the 43rd President of the United States, from 2001 to 2009. Before that, he was the 46th Governor of Texas, having served from 1995 to 2000....

 was scheduled to attend the second show, along with Senator Bill Frist

Bill Frist

William Harrison "Bill" Frist, Sr. is an American physician, businessman, and politician. He began his career as an heir and major stockholder to the for-profit hospital chain of Hospital Corporation of America. Frist later served two terms as a Republican United States Senator representing...

 but was not able to attend. The second show was finally canceled due to extreme temperatures. However, Frist was already en route to the show when it was canceled, and consequently delivered his speech. He emphasized the Support our Scouts Bill recently passed in the Senate. A number of participants and staff members were treated for heat exhaustion and heat stroke while Frist was delivering his speech—at one point, his voice was competing with a helicopter airlifting one victim to a nearby hospital. It also began to rain heavily as Scouts returned to their campsites. The trip to and to and from the second arena show earned the moniker "the death march" among scouts attending the jamboree due to the distances scouts were required to travel in extreme heat, from the Bataan Death March

Bataan Death March

The Bataan Death March was the forcible transfer, by the Imperial Japanese Army, of 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners of war after the three-month Battle of Bataan in the Philippines during World War II, which resulted in the deaths of thousands of prisoners.The march was characterized by...

 experienced by American POWs in the Pacific theater of WWII.

The final show set a jamboree record for the most attendants. President Bush did speak at the third show regarding the importance of Scouting. Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler

Jim Fowler is a professional zoologist and was host of the Emmy Award-winning television show Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom....

, as well as other numerous dignitaries visited and spoke during the closing show. It concluded with both a laser show (originally scheduled for the first show, using music from Epcot

Epcot

Epcot is a theme park in the Walt Disney World Resort, located near Orlando, Florida. The park is dedicated to the celebration of human achievement, namely international culture and technological innovation. The second park built at the resort, it opened on October 1, 1982 and was initially named...

's IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth

IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth

IllumiNations: Reflections of Earth is an award-winning night time show performed nightly at Epcot at the Walt Disney World Resort near Orlando, Florida. The show utilizes fireworks, pyrotechnics, laser lights, fountains, and fire to create a visual production on the park's World Showcase Lagoon...

), and a fireworks show.

Rockers

2005 National Scout Jamboree badge with rockers

At the jamboree, Scouts had the chance to earn five activity patch segments, called rockers, to place on their uniform around the jamboree patch. To earn each rocker, Scouts had to complete certain requirements over the course of the 10 day jamboree. The rockers essentially encouraged the Scouts to see as much of the jamboree as possible. The five rocker segments are Action Centers, Outback Centers, Activities, Duty to God and the 5-K run.

Action Centers

Scouts had to participate in 8 of the following 10 events found in each region's Action center.

• Action Alley- A Full Obstacle course including Zipline, Giant's Ladder and Army Hurdles.
• Air-Rifle Shooting- An Air rifle safety and Technique course followed by target practice.
• Archery- An Archery
  Archery
  Archery is the art, practice, or skill of propelling arrows with the use of a bow, from Latin arcus. Archery has historically been used for hunting and combat; in modern times, however, its main use is that of a recreational activity...
  
   safety and Technique course followed by target practice.
• Bikathalon- A cross country course ridden on mountain bikes with air rifle target shooting stations.
• Buckskin Games- 19th century competitive activities including use of muzzleloading guns, tomahawk
  Tomahawk (axe)
  A tomahawk is a type of axe native to North America, traditionally resembling a hatchet with a straight shaft. The name came into the English language in the 17th century as a transliteration of the Powhatan word.Tomahawks were general purpose tools used by Native Americans and European Colonials...
  
   throwing, knife throwing, bucking bronco event, bullwhip
  Bullwhip
  A bullwhip is a single-tailed whip, usually made of braided leather, which was originally used as a tool for working with livestock.Bullwhips are pastoral tools, traditionally used to control livestock in open country...
  
   cracking and branding
  Livestock branding
  Livestock branding is a technique for marking livestock so as to identify the owner. Originally, livestock branding only referred to a hot brand for large stock, though the term is now also used to refer to other alternative techniques such as freeze branding...
  
  .
• Confidence Course- A series of low course COPE
  Project COPE
  Project COPE is an acronym for Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience, a program in the Boy Scouts of America. It consists of different challenges for groups of scouts that involve teamwork and problem solving, or for individual scouts that test agility and individual skills...
  
   (Challenging Outdoor Personal Experience) activities.
• Motocross- Bicycle racing over an obstacle laden course.
• Mountain Boarding- A cross between snowboarding
  Snowboarding
  Snowboarding is a sport that involves descending a slope that is covered with snow on a snowboard attached to a rider's feet using a special boot set onto mounted binding. The development of snowboarding was inspired by skateboarding, sledding, surfing and skiing. It was developed in the U.S.A...
  
   and skateboarding
  Skateboarding
  Skateboarding is an action sport which involves riding and performing tricks using a skateboard.Skateboarding can be a recreational activity, an art form, a job, or a method of transportation. Skateboarding has been shaped and influenced by many skateboarders throughout the years. A 2002 report...
  
   that has scouts riding mountainboards down hills.
• Pioneering- A series of activities where Patrols use pioneering schools to move objects, build structures and play games.
• Rappelling Tower
• Trapshooting- A shotgun
  Shotgun
  A shotgun is a firearm that is usually designed to be fired from the shoulder, which uses the energy of a fixed shell to fire a number of small spherical pellets called shot, or a solid projectile called a slug...
  
   safety and Technique course followed by target practice.

Outback Centers

Scouts had to participate in 4 of the 9 Outback Center activities.

• Canoe Slalom- A timed canoe course through slalom gates.
• Canoe Sprint- A timed canoe course through buoys.
• Conservation- A hands on experience in conservation techniques.
• Discover Scuba- Instruction in Scuba.
• Fishing- Scouts got a chance to fish in a lake stocked with more than 20,000 bass
  Bass (fish)
  Bass is a name shared by many different species of popular gamefish. The term encompasses both freshwater and marine species. All belong to the large order Perciformes, or perch-like fishes, and in fact the word bass comes from Middle English bars, meaning "perch."-Types of basses:*The temperate...
  
  , channel catfish
  Catfish
  Catfishes are a diverse group of ray-finned fish. Named for their prominent barbels, which resemble a cat's whiskers, catfish range in size and behavior from the heaviest and longest, the Mekong giant catfish from Southeast Asia and the second longest, the wels catfish of Eurasia, to detritivores...
  
   and crappie
  Crappie
  Crappie is a genus of freshwater fish in the sunfish family of order Perciformes. The type species is P. annularis, the white crappie...
  
   among other fish.
• Kayak Fun- A class to learn basic kayaking skills, and a timed course.
• Racing Shell Run- Two scout crews race in lightweight racing shell
  Racing shell
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  s.
• Raft Encounter
• Snorkel Search- A Snorkeling scavenger hunt.

Activities

Scouts had to visit 5 of the 9 Activities in the exhibits and display section.

• American Indian Village- presented by the Order of the Arrow
  Order of the Arrow
  The Order of the Arrow is the national honor society of the Boy Scouts of America . It uses American Indian-styled traditions and ceremonies to bestow recognition on scouts selected by their peers as best exemplifying the ideals of Scouting. The society was created by E. Urner Goodman, with the...
  
  , it taught and displayed Indian Dance, crafts and games.
• QBSA- The jamboree radio station where scouts could sign up to DJ on a live broadcast.
• America's First Scout Camp- A recreation of America's first scout camp at Silver Bay, New York
  Silver Bay, New York
  Silver Bay is a hamlet in the town of Hague in Warren County, New York, United States. It lies on a small bay on Lake George and is the site of a YMCA conference center. The conference center is one of only a few of its type in the United States and is host to many large groups throughout the year....
  
  , started in 1910.
• Merit Badge Midway- A midway filled with close to a hundred booths offering many different Merit Badge
  Merit badge
  Merit badge may refer to:*Merit badge *Merit badge...
  
  s, many of which could be earned entirely on site.
• K2BSA- Amateur radio operator
  Amateur radio operator
  An amateur radio operator is an individual who typically uses equipment at an amateur radio station to engage in two-way personal communications with other similar individuals on radio frequencies assigned to the amateur radio service. Amateur radio operators have been granted an amateur radio...
  
  s were able to use amateur radio
  Amateur radio
  Amateur radio is the use of designated radio frequency spectrum for purposes of private recreation, non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication...
  
   equipment to communicate with other amateur radio station
  Amateur radio station
  An amateur radio station is an installation designed to provide radiocommunications in the amateur radio service for an amateur radio operator. Radio amateurs build and operate several types of amateur radio stations, including fixed ground stations, mobile stations, space stations, and temporary...
  
  s across the country and the world. Scouts also had the opportunity to earn their amateur radio license here.
• Arts and Science Expo- Two exhibits of entries in the Arts and Sciences, submitted by youth attending the jamboree.
• National Exhibits- Exhibits presented by several National associations, the Armed Services and Federal Agencies.
• Brownsea Island Camp- A recreation of the first Boy Scout camp, started by Baden-Powell
  Robert Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell
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   in 1907 in England.
• The Outdoor Adventure Place (TOAP)- A series of events to test scouts' camping skills.
• disAbilities Awareness- Hands on activated conducted to improve awareness about the challenges disabled persons face.
• Venturing Underground- The exhibit of the Venturing program that sent boys far underground for a tour of an abandoned coal mine.

Duty To God

Scouts had to complete the following requirements:

• Attend a Religious Service
• Take Part in 3 religious devotionals found in the 2005 Scout Guide.
• Visit the Religious Relationships exhibit.
• Lead in Grace before a patrol meal.
• Meet your Sub-camp Chaplain
  Chaplain
  Traditionally, a chaplain is a minister in a specialized setting such as a priest, pastor, rabbi, or imam or lay representative of a religion attached to a secular institution such as a hospital, prison, military unit, police department, university, or private chapel...
  
  .

5-K Run

Scouts had to complete a 5 Kilometer Run/Walk. The US Surgeon General

Surgeon General of the United States

The Surgeon General of the United States is the operational head of the Public Health Service Commissioned Corps and thus the leading spokesperson on matters of public health in the federal government...

took part in this run.

Deaths

Contractors were hired to assist in the setting up of a large tent in one of the sub-camps at the Jamboree. Some of the adult scout leaders assisted the contractors in setting the poles. Due to the zoning and the length of the pole, the pole made contact with an electric cable. Those that were killed were: Michal J. Shibe from troop 129, Mike LaCroix from troop 711, Ronald Bitzer from troop 129, and Edward Powell. Mike Shibe had two sons at the Jamboree and LaCroix had one.