Kansas high school student Rebecca McCreight has earned every Boy Scout merit badge in existence, joining the fewer than 0.5% of American scouts to lay claim to them all. As one of the first girls to join the Boy Scouts of America, her achievements are being celebrated nationwide at a time when the organization is deeply mired in scandal.
McCreight made national news showing off her merit badge sash to local media, complete with 138 badges – “which is all of them,” she made sure to remind reporters. Her father, Scout Master David McCreight, bragged that “what a normal scout might take up to eight years to do, took her about 23 months.”