Milestone
9. Earn the First Aid merit badge
Required Often forgotten
One line in the requirements and the largest single piece of work in this badge: a whole merit badge with fifteen requirements of its own. There is a separate plan for it on this site. Start it first.
Notes and warnings
Warning. This is an entire merit badge stated as one requirement, and it is by a wide margin the biggest piece of work on this page: First Aid has fifteen requirements and around a hundred parts. If you have already earned it, tick this and Emergency Preparedness is much shorter than it looks. If you have not, start it today and work through everything else here while it runs. There is a separate plan for the First Aid merit badge on this site.
Where this step comes from
- Emergency Preparedness Merit Badge Requirements (Merit Badge Hub, last modified 2026-02-25), Requirement 9 · An entire merit badge stated as one requirement.