Note that my earlier e-mail said it was an “exercise.”  We didn’t lose anybody.  That’s why we had check-in sheets.  But we got a report of somebody missing in the woods (the call was part of the exercise) and then the Scouts organized themselves into search parties.  There were adults and older Scouts with each group and each group had a radio.  Some helicopter activity overhead helped with the feeling that this was real.  The adults knew it was an exercise.  The Scouts did not.

As I said earlier, the Scouts did a very good job.

-Hank