Boy Scout, Cubmaster Honored For Heroic Service At Military Crash Site

Cubmasters and their Boy Scouts are taught to be superb leaders in their communities. Turns out, they’re brought adult to be lifesaving heroes, too.

On a morning of May 17, a troops aircraft filled with Marines crashed during a slight traininginvestigation by a Marine Corps

Nearby, Kainoa Hepfner, an 8-year-old Webelos Scout had just finished a weekend Cub Scouts camping trip

She followed Hepfner to a scene, climbed over a blockade surrounding a airfield and immediately began assisting Marines out of a disadvantage and administering CPR. 

“At that time, a [aircraft] was in pieces, on fire

She was one of a initial people during a pile-up site

Last week, a National Boy Scouts of America awarded medals to Peddle Smith and Hepfner

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