LOUISVILLE, Ky. — A Louisville area Eagle Scout has a rare distinction among all current and former Scouts.

If 15-year-old George Green told the story behind every merit badge on his sash, he’d be awarded another for filibustering, if that even existed.

The Eagle Scout from Troop 56 in Fern Creek, actually has so many merit badges he carries a second sash.

In fewer than eight years Green has accomplished something very few Scouts ever have and that’s achieve every patch possible, 138.

“I felt like I could,” Green told Spectrum News. “There had to be a level of wanting to, having the drive to be able to go and get all these badges and I learned not only a lot about all of these, all of these different topics, but I learned a lot about myself,” Green explained.

The Louisville teen said he found Scouts when he was about seven years old. His mother said he took a liking to the organization immediately.

“I mean, you’ve got to have a passion to follow through on such a big goal and he did. I mean from a very young age, everything about Scouts he just seemed to take a liking to and each time he earned something you could just see the pride in him,” Julie Green, his mother, said.

Green achieved his final patch a few months ago, something only a handful of Kentucky Scouts have ever accomplished.

“I think there’s 133 million Scouts from the inception in 1910. There’s a little over 500 that have accomplished the goal that he has, since 1910 and he’s only the fourth one in Kentucky, ever,” Julie Green said.

The teen belongs to Troop 56 in Fern Creek. He earned all of the badges in less than eight years and his grandmother sewed each patch onto his two sashes. (Spectrum News 1/Jonathon Gregg)

Green has patches for scuba diving, water sports, skiing, coin collecting, mammal studies, dog care, the list goes on. Though, it’s not the actual patches Green sought; it was the discipline required to achieve them.

“Motivation, that only gets you so far but if you have the discipline to do something and you can keep going for it for a long period of time and know that you’re going to get this done, I think that’s way more important,” Green said.

George Green would like to give a special thank you to his grandmother who hand sewed all 138 badges onto his sash over the years.