Ask Peter Lloyd what his trade is and he will tell you straight: he does not have one. He is a homeowner. He learned how to do a lot of this stuff the hard way.
Which is, if you think about it for a second, exactly the audience Skilled Trades is built for. Most of the Scouts walking through these tents this week will never swing a hammer for a living. They will own a house, and something in it will break, and they will have to decide whether they can handle it or whether they need to call someone.
He came to the program the way a lot of good Scouting things happen, which is a conversation that turned into a commitment. He met Matthew Pigg at Philmont last summer and they got to talking. Hands-on trades work was already something Peter had been interested in bringing into his own troop. Matt's response was to ask why he did not just join the staff. Peter's response was that it sounded great.
The "no trade" line undersells him a little. His background is electrical engineering, and he is a retired Marine, so the crew gets a man who understands circuits and understands how to work inside a plan that changed twenty minutes ago. On a build that has spent the week adapting to whatever materials actually arrived, both of those are worth having.