Tenderfoot Investiture
The Captain calls "Fall in." The troop is formed in a horse shoe, with the Captain and the Lieutenant in the gap. When ordered to come forward by the Captain the Patrol Leader brings the Tenderfoot to be invested to the center, where they stand facing the Captain.
The Captain then asks: "Do you know what your honor means?" The Tenderfoot replies: "Yes, it means that I can be trusted to be truthful and honest" (or words to that effect).
Captain: "Can I trust you on your honor to do your duty to God and to your country, to help other people at all times, and to obey the Scout Law."
Tenderfoot: "On my honor I will try to do my duty to God and to my country, to help other people at all times, and to obey the Scout Law."
The Captain then says: "I trust you, on your honor, to keep this promise."
While the recruit is making her promises aloud, all the Scouts remember their own promises, and vow anew to keep them.
The Captain orders: "Invest,"—and pins on her trefoil badge, explaining that it is her Scout's life. If, for misbehavior her trefoil or life has to be taken from her, she becomes a dead Scout for the time the Captain orders—a day or a week—and is in disgrace. The
