I'll agree - most scouts are truely clueless. I always was well prepared, but I thing that came from the fact that I had been going a field with Dad for YEARS.

In my troop, so other guys got a clue the time we had to carry out a kid suffering from hypothermia. Not fun lugging that kid out. The scoutmaster we had at that time was CLUELESS. I was trying to tell him HOW to warm the kid up so he could walk out himself

(Kid had a down sleeping bag that he allowed to get wet, and not enough clothes to stay warm even though it had stopped raining)