Cub Scouts Pack 277 of Ponte Vedra spent Veterans Day weekend aboard the historic World War II aircraft carrier USS Yorktown in Charleston Harbor, as well as other warships, as participants of the Patriots Point Naval & Maritime Museum’s camping program.
Eighty-five scouts and their families traveled to Mount Pleasant, South Carolina for the experience. During the trip, the scouts and their families became “shipmates” while touring the museum’s three 70-year-old warships: the USS Yorktown, the World War II destroyer USS Laffey and Cold War submarine USS Clamagore. The group slept on the USS Yorktown in the same bunks as the sailors did decade ago. Morning and evening meals were served in the crew mess hall.
Pack 277 also participated in a flight program in which the scouts learned about aviation history and the various types of aircraft. In addition, they flew a simulated F-35B and landed it onto an aircraft carrier.
