Even stranger is their phrasing:

Schnee, who has served as an Eagle Scout [...]

"Served"? The article is acting like it's military service

He's a grown man who permanently maimed a teenage girl due to his own recklessness

There is an internal narrative in Scouting that achieving Eagle Scout is a significant life accomplishment that carries respect throughout your adult life, so some people feel compelled to bring it up whenever. Some things I've heard:

• the police may give you some leeway like its a PBA card.
• the military will automatically consider you for higher rank upon induction
• it will always be a positive on a resume.

Of course, at the end of the day it's a youth organization, and bringing up your youth accomplishments past your first interview or college application should be embarrassing at best.

In this case I think it's just short for "someone who should have known better than to throw random bullshit in a bonfire."

The Eagle Scout designation in your 20s is crazy work. It comes off like a guy who puts his Masters degree abbreviation in his email signature, when he's 46.

Fuck you Derek, you sit in a cube all day and have been in the workforce for decades. Nobody cares you have an M.A. in Communications.