Ken reports>My problem was with the other adults<

At our troop (when I was a Scout) the Assistant Scout Masters had a 50%
turnaround rate annually due to the Scout Master, who we kids all called
"Hitler". I remember several of the assistants with fondness (how can you ever
forget the guy who taught you the Morse Code?) I do believe to this day that
he, however, was reliving some WWII thing, and we were his troops, only this
time poeple were going to obey him, dammit! His son "Little Hitler" was one of
the guys who wore the Smokey Bear hat to every meeting. Hitler actually would,
upon seeing some infraction of the rules (mine was breaking some Tote n' Chip
regulation) order the unfortunate soul to "get down and give me 50!"

By the way, I still have my pioneering merit badge book which I refer to
whenever I need a particular knot for some obscure task I have to perform.

MD