Editing Junior Woodchucks (section)

==Fictional organization history==
[[File:Junior Woodchucks History.jpg|thumb|352x352px|History of the Junior Woodchucks from "W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N." by Don Rosa (1997). (Edited image)]]

In the story "[[W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.]]" by [[Don Rosa]] the history of the Junior Woodchucks of the World begins with the Woodchuck Militia, a defensive army unit that was formed by [[Cornelius Coot]] in the early 19th century to protect [[Duckburg|Fort Duckburg]] from [[Native Americans in the United States|Native American]] warriors and other threats in the area. [[Clinton Coot]], the son of Cornelius Coot, was the founder of the Junior Woodchucks as a Scouting organization for the children and teenagers around Duckburg at the time to uphold the ideals of performing good deeds, protection of the wilderness, rescuing of the innocent, meek & helpless, and the preservation of knowledge. The organization eventually grew larger to include all nations around the world. The first Junior Woodchucks were Grand Marshal Osborne and Exalted Overseer Taliaferro (a reference to [[Ted Osborne|Ted Osborn]] and [[Al Taliaferro]]) and Fulton Gearloose, the father of [[Gyro Gearloose]].

The Junior Woodchucks is a [[Paramilitary|para-militaristic]] organization with its leadership being much more similar to that of [[Officer (armed forces)|army officers]] than to real-life [[Scout Leader|Scoutmasters]]. The scouting groups are organized into troops which include titles such as Trooper, Lieutenant-General, Field Marshal and Ten-Star General. Alongside self-reliance,<ref name=":2" /> trust and [[honor]] are important to the Junior Woodchucks, as its members never lie, as for instance when Huey, Dewey and Louie promised the inhabitants of the sunken city of [[Atlantis]] to always keep their city's location secret from the outside world.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US++++5-02&redirected=1|title=The Secret of Atlantis|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-05-06}}</ref>

As the title of the Junior Woodchucks of the World suggest, it is an international organization and has troops across the globe, including [[Arabian Peninsula|Arabia]] (which consist of Desert Patrol nr. 646),<ref>{{Cite web|title = McDuck of Arabia|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++55-01&redirected=1|website = coa.inducks.org|access-date = 2016-02-18}}</ref> [[Brazil]] (which consist of the [[Rio de Janeiro]] troops)<ref>{{Cite web|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+2004-032&redirected=1|title = Donald Duck - The Magnificent Seven (Minus Four) Caballeros!|access-date = 2016-02-18|website = coa.inducks.org}}</ref> and the [[Duckburg]] troops of the [[United States]].

===Leadership===
[[File:The I.T.S.A.A.D.C.O.T.F.O.I.K. from the Chickadee Challenge.jpg|left|thumb|205x205px|The I.T.S.A.A.D.C.O.T.F.O.I.K., from Carl Barks' "The Chickadee Challenge" (1955)]]
The adult leadership of the Junior Woodchucks consists of troop commanders<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://inducks.org/story.php?c=W+US+++13-02|title=Land Beneath the Ground! {{!}} I.N.D.U.C.K.S.|website=inducks.org|language=en|access-date=2018-08-21}}</ref> (called Grand Moguls in European comics) whom often has vibrantly acronymized titles which demonstrates their ranking position and professional field. They have also been called Generals in a few stories by Carl Barks. The troop commanders' uniforms are militaristic in design. They are often white or brown in color with richly decorated gold embroideries; with their headgear often being a woodchuck cap<ref name=":2" /> or other types of [[List of headgear|military headwear]]. They are also often wearing a lanyard, filled with a large number of elaborately meritorious medals, badges & ribbons which makes them look very dignified and grandiose, and in some cases exceedingly pompous. Only Junior Woodchucks can later become troop commanders.<ref name=":1" />

Again, according to Don Rosa's story ''W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N''. the Junior Woodchucks of the World is governed by the Supreme Council; which is probably part of the World Office of the Junior Woodchucks, the organization's top office.<ref name=":3">{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+181-01&redirected=1|title=The Chickadee Challenge|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-17}}</ref> The council consists of nine high-ranking members whom collectively is called the B.I.G.S.H.O.T.S. (Bureaucratic and Imposing Gathering of Supreme High Officials of the Topmost Strata) with the H.E.A.D.H.O.N.C.H.O. (Highest Executive Administrator of Divisional Headquarters and Organizer of Nearly Complete Hierarchical Overkill) as the head of the council. The Supreme Council is located in the Junior Woodchucks' World Headquarters in the City of Duckburg.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title = W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=D+97052&redirected=1|website = coa.inducks.org|access-date = 2016-02-18}}</ref>

However, other high ranking titles of uncertain position in leadership has been used within the organization in stories by Carl Barks and others. Some of these include Commander-in-Chief<ref>{{Cite web|title = Operation St. Bernard|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+125-02&search=Operation%2520St.%2520Bernard|website = coa.inducks.org|access-date = 2016-02-18}}</ref> and Exalted Grand Marshal.<ref name=":2">{{Cite web|title = Ten-Star Generals|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+132-02&redirected=1|website = coa.inducks.org|access-date = 2016-02-18}}</ref>

A few other acronymized titles within the Junior Woodchucks' leadership include:
* (1955) G.U.C.O.T.R.O.I.S. (Great, Unopposable Commandant Of The Realm Of Inextinguishale Sagacity) and I.T.S.A.A.D.C.O.T.F.O.I.K. (International Twelve-Star Admiral And Deputy Custodian Of The Fountain Of Inexhaustible Knowledge), a very high ranking title which also seem to have some authority over the Littlest Chickadees patrol in the story ''The Chickadee Challenge'' (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #181) written and drawn by Carl Barks, by declaring the bridge-building challenge between the two organisations as a tie; suggesting that the Littlest Chickadees is somehow part of or associated with the Junior Woodchuck of the World in some way.
* (1959) O.O.O.T.Q.F.U.E. (Omnipotent Overseer Of The Quest For Unsurpassable Excellence)
* (1964) O.G.U.F.O.O.L. (Omnipotent Giver of Unimpeachably Full-bodied Observations on Omniscient Logic) and M.A.S.L.L.B.P.C.M. (Admirable Sachem of the Long Limousine and Benevolent Payer of the Clubhouse Mortgage)
* (1970) B.O.W.W.O.W. (Be-strewer Of Well-padded Wisdom, Omniscience and Whatever)
* (1970) H.I.S.S. and P.O.A.H.M. (Hardheaded Intuitive Sagacity Spreader and Possessor Of All His Marbles)
* (1970) T.O.P.B.R.A.S.S. (Thunderbolt of Omniscient Perspicacity and Boss Ramrod of Abounding Succor Spreaders)
* (1971) J.A.W.B.O.N.E. (Judicious, Abstruse, Wise Bestower of Neolithic Edification) This title is held by the duckbill character Philodemus Gentlefogg of Duckburg Burrow Number 22, seen in The Junior Woodchucks story ''Let Sleeping Bones Lie'' (Uncle Scrooge #358).
* (1971) R.I.N.G.T.A.I.L.E.D. S.N.O.R.T.E.R. (Radiant, Illustrious, Notable, Glittering, Topflight Analytical Instructor in Logistical Engineering Dynamics and Sharpeyed, Nitpicking, Overseer, Recorder, Tabulator and Excuse Rejecter)
* (1971) C.O.O.L.H.E.A.D. (Calmer of Outbreaks, Outcries, Lamentations, Hassles, Expostulations, Animosity and Disquietude)
* (1971) S.A.P.P.Y. P.A.P.P.Y. (Stern Advocator of Peanut-Picking Yardmasterism and Peerless Abecedarian Producer of Praiseworthy Youth)
* (1971) D.E.M.I.J.O.H.N. (Dynamic Earth-shacking Molder of Immaculate Junk Obliterators Here and Now)
* (1971) B.R.A.S.S. G.A.S.S.E.R. (Brain Rattling Assigner of Stupendous Sweatouts and Giver of Awesome Scathing Scoldings and Expurgatory Roustings)
* (1971) O.D.D. B.A.L.L.E.R. (Observer of Devious Doings and Bestower of Accolades and Limitless Laurels upon Entitled Recipients)
* (1971) T.A.I.L.C.R.A.N.K.E.R. (Tempestuous Assailer of Indolent Lackadaisicalness and Case-hardened Requiser of Absolute Nose-dipping, Kowtowing, Ear-cocking Regimentationalism)
* (1972) I.R.O.N.H.E.A.R.T. (Intrepid Router of Overblown Nocturnal Hobgoblins and Exposer of Addlepated Rumormorgering Taletellers)
* (1972) J.O.Y. K.I.L.L.E.R. (Jaw-breaking Order-Yeller and Intoner of Leather-lunged Lecturing, Excoriating and Rank-rattling)
* (1972) B.E.L.L.E.R.I.N.G. B.U.L.L.N.E.C.K. (Bellicose Expecter of Limitless Lionization, Esteem, Reverence and Indefatigable, Never-dying Gung-ho as well as Bedeviller of Unskillful, Lunkheaded Lallygaggers, and Nemesis of Extemporizing Campground Know-nothings)
* (1972) H.I.S.T.O.R.Y.N.U.T. (Hypercritical Inquiring Seeker into Tales of Old and Rumors of Yore, as well as Noser-outer of Unprovable Tommyrot)
* (1972) G.U.F.F. S.P.O.U.T.E.R. (Gentle, Unflappable, Friendly Fellow and Serene, Peaceful, Orderly, Utterly Tranquil Example of Reasonableness)
* (1972) T.U.B.B.A. B.L.U.B.B.E.R. (Towering, Unperturable, Bell-wether of Brobdingnagian Adventures and Belchfiring Larruper of Unsavory Beachrats, Buccaneers and Ecology Ravagers)
* (1972) H.O.T.S.H.O.O.T.E.R. (Hawkeyed Ogler of Twigs, Sprigs, Herbs, Oaks, Truffles, Thickets, Eeelgrass and Ragweeds)
* (1972) S.O.A.P. F.R.E.A.K. (Stern Overseer of Aquatic Peccadillos and Fastidious Rectifier of Ecological Abuse and Knaveries)
* (1973) W.A.F.E.R. W.A.V.E.R. (Whip-cracking Achiever ofFrightfully Efficient Regimentation and Wrathful Arm-twisting Vocalizer of Expostulatory Rake-downs)
* (1973) M.O.N.K.E.Y.S. U.N.C.L.E. (Multifabolous Overseer of Noteworthy Knot-tying, Eagle-spying, Yodel-crying and Sock-drying as well as Understander of Nature and Converser with Lions and Elks)
* (1973) S.L.A.C.K.E.R. W.H.A.C.K.E.R. (Stentorian, Law-spouting, Adjudicating Cracker of Knobs and Expounder of Rules as well as Watchdog, Herdmaster, Admiral, Commodore, King, Emperor and Rip-roarer)
* (1973) S.M.O.G. D.O.G. (Sufferocious Measurer Observer and Gatherer od Deleterious Oxigen Gunkups)
* (1973) T.R.O.O.P.E.R. P.O.O.P.E.R. (Tempestuous Requester of Overblown Obedience, Perfection, Enthusiasm and Reliability as well as Propounder of Outrageously Ostentatious Programs, Enterprises and Razzledazzles)
* (1974) C.O.D.F.A.T.H.E.R. (Ceremonialized Oratorical Discourser of Fishes, Alfalfa, Toadstools, Human, Earwigs and/or Rodents)

On few occasions [[Donald Duck]] has taken on the role as a troop commander (although in [[Don Rosa]]'s story "[[W.H.A.D.A.L.O.T.T.A.J.A.R.G.O.N.]]", Donald is revealed to never having been allowed to join the Junior Woodchucks on account of his "hot temper"), or by [[Launchpad McQuack]] in the ''[[DuckTales (1987 TV series)|DuckTales]]'' TV series. In a large number of stories, including the last ones written by Carl Barks, the Duckburg troop commander is a tall duck, who is either the same character in every story with many different titles depending on the situation or separate characters. In some Italian stories the troop commander of the Duckburg troop is a tall, brave, strong, healthy and wise (but scared of flight) goose whose name is Bertie McGoose.

===Troops===
[[File:Huey, Dewey and Louie as Ten Star Generals.jpg|alt=|thumb|Huey, Dewey and Louie as Ten Star Generals, from Carl Barks' story "Ten-Star Generals" (1951)|248x248px]]To become a full member of the Junior Woodchucks and be assigned to a local troop one must first enlist as cadets, who wears woodchuck caps, and pass the initiation test that proves one's intelligence and resourcefulness.<ref name=":0" /> After one has passed this test and become a full member, the headgear of the uniform consist of a backtail woodchuck cap and for higher-ranking members; the Exalted Hightail woodchuck cap. Within the troops there is also leadership titles inspired by the army, in which Major seems to be the lowest rank followed by higher ranking titles like Ten-Star General; which is one grade below Exalted Hightail.<ref name=":4">{{Cite web|title = My Lucky Valentine|url = https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+150-01&redirected=1#scans|website = coa.inducks.org|access-date = 2016-02-18}}</ref> Don Rosa has written that One-Hundred-Star General is the highest title in the Junior Woodchucks; after which promotees can proceed to earn titles above the highest ranks.<ref name=":0" /> Recipients can issue orders to lower ranking members.<ref name=":3" /> To earn titles and get promotions in rank, one will have to pass tests or missions of which there is a vast number and in various fields. These include outdoors and survival skills, science and environmental protection etc. With these promotions, Junior Woodchucks will receive a large number of elaborately honorific medals, badges & ribbons in the specific field that one has mastered. All the different troops also has its own lodge as a base of operation and for gatherings. The most prestigious troop to belong to was the Duckburg Troop No. 1, as it was the first to be created during the time of Clinton Coot and it only admitted high-ranking members from other local troops.<ref name=":0" />

The best known members of the Duckburg Troop Nr. 1 consist of: 
* Ten-Star Generals<ref name=":2" />/ Exalted Hightails,<ref name=":4" /> Commandants of the Hightails' Hall of Heroes,<ref name=":4" /> Chevaliers of the Honor Guard<ref name=":3" /> (etc.) Huey, Dewey and Louie Duck
* Field Marshal Fox
* Trooper Hogg, a character together with Field Marshal Fox most often appears in Carl Barks' later Junior Woodchucks stories and also in the modern stories by later writers and artists. 
* Lieutenant-General Holsworthy Hog, appears in ''Gladstone's Usual Very Good Year'' (Walt Disney's Comics and Stories #136), by Carl Barks.

===General Snozzie===
General Snozzie is the Official Hound of the Junior Woodchucks and was created by Carl Barks in his story ''Dodging Miss Daisy'' from 1958.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://coa.inducks.org/story.php?c=W+WDC+213-01|title=Dodging Miss Daisy|website=coa.inducks.org|access-date=2016-03-10}}</ref> General Snozzie is a [[bloodhound]] occasionally deployed by the Junior Woodchucks during tests or missions and he has many skills but his main attribute and discipline is his extraordinary, and at times incomprehensibly, good scent tracking. He also has a number of acronymized titles which include:[[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]], [[Bachelor of Engineering|B.Sc.]], [[Doctor of Education|Ed.D.]] and '''D.O.G.''' ('''D'''octor of '''O'''dd-ball '''G'''immickry) and '''G.C.O.T.O.O.M.''' ('''G'''rand '''C'''ommander '''O'''f '''T'''he '''O'''rder '''Of''' '''Me'''rcury)(1961), '''S.L.O.B.''' ('''S'''imple, '''L'''owdown, '''O'''rdinary '''B'''oobhound), '''S.S.S.S.''' and '''S.O.S.S.''' ('''S'''upremely '''S'''agacious '''S'''poor '''S'''niffer and '''S'''aver '''O'''f '''S'''tranded '''S'''ouls)(1962), '''K.I.N.G.''' ('''K'''nightly, '''I'''ntrepid, '''N'''atatorial '''G'''uardian) ''working for points to earn a'' '''B.T.H.H.M.''' ('''B'''ucket '''T'''o '''H'''old '''H'''is '''M'''edals) and '''G.P.O.O.T.K.H.''' ('''G'''reat '''P'''eerless '''O'''verseer '''O'''f '''T'''he '''K'''itchen '''H'''elp)(1963).