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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,
    • 5 replies
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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,
    • 34 replies
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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,
    • 0 replies
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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

    • 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.?
    • Armymutt
      It appears that the decision is done; see letter.

      By Armymutt · Posted

      Here's where I see trouble with this model - from the files posted:  We should ensure no Scouts are excluded from events due to lack of appropriate adult volunteer leadership. If, despite best efforts, an event or outing lacks appropriate adult volunteer leadership, it should be canceled rather than excluding any youth. This has the potential to be severely damaging.  No females volunteer to go on an outing, it gets cancelled.  The boys blame girls for being in the program and causing them to miss out.
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