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  1. Are Your Knots Right-Side-Up?

    By CaveEagle,
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  2. Guaranteed for the life of the owner?

    By BSAChaplain,
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  3. Eagle pin

    By kdeleve,
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  4. Scouter uniform at son's Eagle COH 1 2

    By isvirtual,
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  5. Appropriateness of Scouter wearing patches earned as a Youth. 1 2 3 4

    By Rip Van Scouter,
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  6. red wool jac-shirt

    By hendrickms24,
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  7. Pants: thought experiment

    By Hunt,
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  8. Is the uniform a hinderance to retaining boys? 1 2 3

    By NIscouter,
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  9. Stop the Insanity! 1 2 3

    By scoutldr,
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  10. number of merit badges on sash

    By cheffy,
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  11. Adult Uniformed Leaders 1 2

    By ps56k,
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  12. Removing adhesive from uniform

    By Katschen,
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  13. Historical Cub Scout Uniforms

    By DeniseK,
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  14. BSA Supply's Uniform Poll

    By SemperParatus,
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  15. NEW Boy Scout Action Shirt

    By VentureScoutNY,
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  • LATEST POSTS

    • RememberSchiff
      Be Prepared, Drills Save Lives - 2014 Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch flood

      By RememberSchiff · Posted

      Timely article:  https://gazette.com/news/local/southern-colorado-boy-scouts-camp-survived-terrifying-flash-flood/article_78a58953-e44e-48a3-90d1-58f144d59da0.html I did not know that Spanish Peaks Scout Ranch was sold in 2023. 
    • HashTagScouts
      How to save a rapidly dying Troop.

      By HashTagScouts · Posted

      Don't disagree with you on when they could have messaged. Does seem to be desired to use NAM as the showcase the past few years- but that could be self-serving trying to get more people to attend ((BSA makes $ off the registration fees for NAM).
    • AwakeEnergyScouter
      How to save a rapidly dying Troop.

      By AwakeEnergyScouter · Posted

      Maybe I'm just overly cynical, but that sounds like someone in your council fighting the success. It could just be poor job performance, of course. But the kind of stiff, emotional resistance to girls and women being a full, authentic part of Scouting America that some people in the organization have doesn't just evaporate in a year or even in the face of evidence. For them, it's not about success for the organization, it's about forcing the world to be a certain way. In this case cooties-free. It could definitely be that your council's policy is a result of an internal struggle between people who wanted coed and people who didn't. Did you see Scouting Maverick's take on postponing coed in Scouts BSA earlier?  https://scoutingmaverick.com/2025/01/21/celebrating-a-sexist-scam-linked-troop-wood-badge-highlights-sas-cultural-rot/ Your example of a CC who is so invested in no girls that he's going to de facto let his unit die rather than go coed isn't the only one I'm sure. Actually, you mentioned several such units, so... They're going to keep shrieking until it stops working, which seems to be roundabout now or soon. But some won't stop shrieking because they realized it's actually fine, they will still sabotage what they can. Meanwhile in my corner of my female-friendly council, many leaders are working together to build out a coed pipeline from Cub Scouts into Scouts BSA. Not coincidentally we're about equal numbers of men and women. And it's working - all of our units are growing. If we keep working, Scouting America is going to come back from cultural oblivion in a decade or so.  
    • Armymutt
      First Scout week trip in 31 years

      By Armymutt · Posted

      That's exactly where we are right now.  Most of the adults in the troop were not Scouts.  They took the youth lead concept to an extreme and now we have a patient that is sick.  I'm trying to avoid getting to the life support stage, much less CPR.  The oldest Scouts have succumbed to sports and the fumes.  Half the troop is under the age of 13 and a quarter is under the age of 12.  We are going to have to actually teach the PLC, such that it is, how to do the skills and then get them to retain the information long enough to teach it to their patrols.  
    • Tron
      How to save a rapidly dying Troop.

      By Tron · Posted

      I get what you're saying; I would counter though that national should have been able to see that and should have planned that timeline to release the coed program earlier. So right now female membership growth is significantly outpacing male membership growth (I think the NAM numbers were 3x the number of females are joining right now), and most of us have no where to send our female AOLs.  I don't know about you guys but my council adopted the dumbest policy during the coed pilot. Only existing linked units from prior to the coed policy can be coed, so we have female AOLs just dropping from the program. Who could be so stupid to think retention of female scout was going to go up in some of these councils where we're stuck telling parents that if they want to keep their daughters in the program they will have to continue to drive an additional 10+ miles just to go to a troop meeting when their sons are swinging around the block for a meeting? 
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