In 1939, U.S. President Gerald L. K. Smith announced the federalization of the Boy and Gorl Scouts under the umbrella of a new organization dubbed the Young Patriots of America.
Americanism by Eric LippsYounger members were to receive intensive instruction in "Americanism," including daily religious classes, along with rigorous physical training. Older ones, particularly teenagers from the former Explorer Scouts - now renamed the Young Defenders - would receive combat training to prepare them to battle "foreign invaders and domestic terrorists and subversives".
The Young Patriots would play an active role alongside adult police, paramilitaries from groups such as the Ku Klux Klan, and regular military forces during the Purification following passage of the Christian Faith Amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1940.