Nathan Huddleston

I owe the blog a report of little Troop 5’s backpacking/campout in the Wichita Mountains in southern Oklahoma, but need to share a Nathan story.

Nathan Huddleston is currently serving our county as an infantry solider. He is stationed in New York training and preparing for deployment to Afghanistan. He is a proud alumnus of Troop 5. Nathan is only one of four troop 5 boys to have successfully completed the Eagle Rock Loop in the Ouachita Mountains in Arkansas.

I was catching up on Facebook this past Sunday evening when Nathan popped up to chat. He wanted to know about how the troop was doing and how the backpacking trip went. It was neat to realize little Troop 5 was still important to him.

I remembered the struggles of the weekend the Senior Patrol Leader have the boys stay motivated to keep moving over rough terrain for about 5 miles while reflecting on Nathan on his first backpacking trip. How he complained and whined!

In Nathan speak; he reflected on how the boys of the troop don’t know how trouble-free they got it. He had just done a 35 mile trek under load with his duty weapon.

God speed Nathan, keep your head down so you can tell the boys of little Troop 5 in person how easy they got it!