 By World War I, there were 96 "Sich Sharpshooter" societies in Galicia alone.Plast was by then transformed into a full-fledged scouting organization with branches in many towns and villages.Many of these young scouts would continue to voluntarily join "Ukrainian Sich Sharpshooter" movement even well after the war was over, and future generations would also participate in the liberation struggles between the wars and in World War II.