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  • LATEST POSTS

    • Tron
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By Tron · Posted

      Going to be really hard to enforce. Garrison commanders have an extreme amount of authority and flexibility on how they run the base(s) under their command. It's highly unlikely that any order will explicitly state that US military cannot partner or work with etc ... Scouting America; instead it will likely state something like "no diversion of mission critical resources"; which plays into the garrison commanders ability to basically do whatever he wants. 
    • Tron
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By Tron · Posted

      In my opinion this is a sign of burnout in the leadership. In my opinion you want to meet every week unless a holiday falls exactly on the meeting day. What I have seen personally is that units who are looking for these excuses are suffering burnout in the leadership. The two week gap screams to me that the leadership is burned out and that their scouts are probably in a situation where they don't need the meetings to advance so it's just a burden meeting to those families.
    • Tron
      It appears that the decision is done; see letter.

      By Tron · Posted

      This is absolutely avoidable by recruiting as many leaders as possible. If we take an honest look at most packs and troops there are very few leaders. Everyone complains but no one is asking. I forced the issue this year to recruit at least 4 more NEW leaders and it was tough to get everyone onboard, it was about 3 months of going around and talking about what adults were close to aging out, how succession plans really work, how doing a right-seat-ride (you'll like that Armymutt) enables successors to really learn a position. The reality of most units is that we're all running lean because there is a certain point where the number of leaders becomes harder to manage the dynamics between leaders. There are a lot of units running on 4-6 leaders because it's just enough to get stuff done but not too many to make administrative work; when you go to those units and say "hey you need to recruit some female leadership into your SM corps and your committee" those units balk.  My gut tells me more patrol outings fixes a lot of problems. 
    • InquisitiveScouter
      Troops not meeting the week of Thanksgiving and over Christmas break? This is a thing now?

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      If you meet in a military facility, that might end quickly also... https://www.npr.org/2025/11/25/nx-s1-5615164/pentagon-scouting-hegseth-cut-ties Not sure this will gain traction, though...
    • DuctTape
      It appears that the decision is done; see letter.

      By DuctTape · Posted

      I did not think of that. Good point. Perhaps a push for more Patrol outings instead of troop focus is in order. Depending on patrol makeup, this might mitigate the problem.?
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