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The '''Direct Service''' is a program service of the [[Boy Scouts of America]]'s International Division, created in [[1955]] to make the Scouting program available to citizens of the United States and their dependents living in countries outside the jurisdiction of the [[#Transatlantic Council|Transatlantic Council]] (headquartered in [[Scouting in Germany|Germany]] and serving American Scouts in much of Europe), the Aloha Council (serving youth residing in much of the eastern and Central Pacific as well as Guam, American Samoa, and several Hawaiian islands) and the [[#Far East Council|Far East Council]] (headquartered in [[Scout Association of Japan|Japan]], serving several nations in the western Pacific.)

Approximately 3,000 youth members and 1,000 adult leaders belong to Direct Service units, or are registered as [[Lone Scouts]] in isolated areas of the world. Direct Service members are the children of international businesspeople, [[diplomatic corps]] officials, and U.S. military personnel. Direct Service serves 100 [[Cub Scouts (Boy Scouts of America)|Cub Scout]] packs, Boy Scout troops, and Venturing crews in 47 countries on five continents.

*Bahrain

*Bangladesh  

*Bolivia  

*China  

*Costa Rica  

*Cuba

*Dominican Republic  

*El Salvador  

*Ethiopia  

*Ghana  

*Guatemala  

*Honduras  

*Iceland  

*Indonesia  

*Israel  

*Jordan  

*Kazakhstan  

*Kuwait  

*Malaysia  

*Mauritania  

*Myanmar  

*Nepal  

*Nigeria  

*Panama

*Peru  

*Qatar  

*Saudi Arabia  

*Trinidad and Tobago  

*United Arab Emirates  

*Uruguay  

*Zambia

The chartered organizations of Direct Service units include American schools and churches, international schools, U.S. embassies, [[multinational corporation]]s, parents' groups, and [[fraternal organization]]s.

Gamenowinink Lodge #555, chartered in [[1962]], serves 135 Arrowmen as of 2004. The lodge [[totem]] is a globe, and the name translates to "On the Other Side of the Great Sea" in the Lenni Lenape language. Gamenowinink Lodge is under the supervision and administration of the BSA International Division in Irving, Texas. In [[1971]] Gamenowinink Lodge absorbed Cuauhtli Lodge #446 of the Scouts de America Council, which served American Scouts in Mexico, and in 1987 absorbed Chiriqui Lodge #391 of the Panama Canal Council, which served American Scouts in the former [[Panama Canal Zone]].

The '''Far East Council''' #803 of the [[Boy Scouts of America]], headquartered at [[Camp Zama]] in Japan, was created in 1953 to make the Scouting program available to United States citizens and their dependents living in several nations in the western Pacific.

*South Korea  

*Taiwan

**Garuda District

The [http://www.oa803.org/oa/ Achpateuny Lodge #498], originally chartered in 1953 as Hinode Goya Lodge (Rising Sun), serves 278 Arrowmen as of 2004. The lodge totem is a dragon, and the name translates to "East Wind" in the Lenni Lenape language. Officially, Baluga Lodge #538 (Philippine Islands Council), merged with Hinode Goya, the lodge later changed its name to Ikunuhkatsi (reportedly translated from Filipino Tagalog as "a Gathering of the Nations") in 1975. Ikunuhkatsi was inactive near the end of its charter year in 1983, and in 1984 it was rechartered as Achpateuny Lodge.

Trail medals are issued for the hiking and cleanup of several World War II and historic sites, such as Task Force Smith throughout the Council territory.

** Norway: Stavenger

** Denmark: Copenhagen

** Switzerland: Geneva

**Sweden: Stockholm

* Barbarossa District -

** Germany: Kaiserslautern, Ramstein, Landstuhl, Sembach, Baumholder

** Germany: Bamberg, Munich, Garmisch, Hanau, Würzburg, Schweinfurt, Kitzingen, Ansbach, Grafenwoehr, Vilseck, Illesheim, Hohenfels, Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden

**Romania: Bucharest