Scoutmaster: Would all the Eagle Scouts in the audience please come forward and form an Eagle Nest behind the new Eagles.

Eagle Scout [Name] will now deliver the Eagle charge.

Eagle Scout Peer: [Names of Eagles Being Honored], I have the honor to give you the Eagle charge on the occasion of your elevation to highest rank in Scouting. Your conduct along the trail has been excellent. You have rededicated yourself to the principles of Scouting, but one more thing is important …your future.

As an Eagle Scout, you become a guide to other Scouts of lower rank. You become an example in your community. Remember, that your actions are now a little more conspicuous and people will expect more of you. To falter in your responsibility would not only reflect upon you, but on your fellow Eagles and all of Scouting. The torch you carry is not only yours, but is ours also.

I challenge you to enter this Eagle brotherhood, holding ever before you, without reservation, the ideals of honor and service, by the repetition of the Eagle Scout Promise before your fellow members. Though the words you use are similar to those by which you joined Scouting, they will mean more now than they could have meant at any time in the past. When you pledge yourself on your sacred honor, you will be sealing your eternal loyalty to the code of the Eagle Scout, with the words which close the Declaration of Independence. Scout, parents, and guests, please stand.

All Eagles, please make the Scout sign, and repeat after me:

“I reaffirm my allegiance—to the three promises of the Scout Oath—I thoughtfully recognize and take upon myself—the obligations and responsibilities of the rank of Eagle Scout—On my honor—I will do my best—to make my training an example—my rank and my influence—count strongly—for better Scouting—and for better citizenship,—in my troop—and in my community—and in my contacts with other people—to this I pledge my sacred honor.”

[New Eagles], may the oath you have taken remain engraven on your heart forever.

Eagle Nest please shake the left hand of your new Eagle Scout peers before you return to your seats.