Gee. I can think of some other lessons they learned from this experience, can't you? Unquestioning submission to authority is just one of them: DES MOINES, Iowa —A central Iowa Boy Scout troop just returned from a three-week trip they will likely never forget. About 10 days into the trip, an innocent action by one of the nearly two dozen Scouts at the Canadian border into Alaska set off a chain of events that lead to a U.S.