[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 40 (Wednesday, March 6, 2024)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E217]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




          HONORING EAGLE SCOUT JADEN FACTOR OF OZARK, MISSOURI

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                           HON. ERIC BURLISON

                              of missouri

                    in the house of representatives

                        Wednesday, March 6, 2024

  Mr. BURLISON. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to honor Jaden Factor of 
Ozark, Missouri, who recently achieved the rank of Eagle Scout. Eagle 
Scout is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America 
program, and since its inception in 1911, only 4 percent of scouts have 
earned this rank after a lengthy review process.
  Jaden is a junior at Ozark High School and a member of Troop 201 of 
the Ozark Trails Council of the Boy Scouts of America where he has held 
numerous leadership positions ranging from den chief and historian to 
outdoor ethics guide and senior patrol leader, the highest youth 
position in a scout troop.
  Jaden also is a master sergeant in the Junior Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps at Ozark High. His Eagle Scout project combined his love 
of scouting with his military training. Jaden raised $2,500 to 
refurbish a Conex storage container that was in poor condition, which 
was used to house the Ozark JROTC Raiders team gear. He hired a 
trucking company to transport the container from the junior high school 
to a sandblasting company which stripped and painted it, and it was 
then moved to a new home at the high school. Jaden and a team of fellow 
scouts prepped the site for the container at the school, touched up 
paint when it was returned and restored a retaining wall adjacent to 
the container.
  Scouting has been teaching valuable lessons in leadership since it 
was established in February 1910, and achieving the rank of Eagle Scout 
is an important accomplishment. This young man deserves our applause 
for a job well done. I am proud to have him as a constituent.

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