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As of 2021, 989 Eagle Scouts have received the Congressional Medal of Honor. The Eagle Scout award is the highest rank attainable in the Boy Scouts of America, while the Congressional Medal of Honor is the highest military decoration awarded by the United States government.
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There were 96 recipients of the US Medal of Honor in WWI.
Eight Eagle Scouts were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during World War II:Aquilla J. DyessRobert Edward FemoyerEugene B. FluckeyCharles P. Murray, Jr.Mitchell PaigeBenjamin L. SalomonJay Zeamer, Jr.Arlo OlsenLeo K. Thorsness and Thomas Norris were awarded the Medal of Honor for actions during the Vietnam War.Charles P. Murray, Jr. - is not an Eagle Scout - but was awarded the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award in 1971 (see related link).
No, but many have been Scouts.
181 NASA astronauts were involved in Scouting, and 39 are Eagle Scouts
The BSA has not released any data on Eagle Scouts by age.
About 10.
About 2% of scouts make Eagle Scout
Because the awarding of the Medal of Honor is done by an act of Congress. The US Medal of Honor was authorized by the Congress in 1862. The first Army soldier to receive the Medal was Private Jacob Parrott.
As of 2017 no Medal of Honor winner has been openly gay.
That number is unknown as it takes place in the future. Statistically, 2% of all boy scouts will achieve the rank of Eagle. It is not very many.