Hint

My scout is an 8th grade SPL for an 85 member troop. His troop doesn't have separate elections for ASPL and SPL. The scout is elected to ASPL for a 1/2 year term (June COH-Dec COH or vice versa) and then automatically moves up to SPL for the next 6 months. This troop does the same with the patrol leadership positions as well. So my scout had 6 months of training as ASPL before he took over in Dec. When he was serving as ASPL, his SPL was a 10th grade Life Scout. Right now both the SPL and ASPL are 8th grade Life Scouts and OA members (one is Brotherhood, 1 is Ordeal). So they may be young, but they did have scouting experience. We live in a area with a lot of military families so every so often the ASPL will not get to do SPL and the troop will have to elect 2 officers. This will happen in June since my scout will be finishing up his SPL term and the ASPL is having to PCS with his family. It also happened 2 springs ago for the same reason. My scout is a little concerned about who will become SPL without the ASPL time so he has taken it upon himself to encourage certain boys with natural leadership ability and a command presence to run this June. Haha, he says he wants to be an engineer but I think he should be a politician!

The Scout from last year didn't sew the sashes on top of one another,rather edge to edge. There is a pic in this article http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/02/AR2007040201570.html

I have Adobe Reader 8.something. The workbook that the scout used to write his proposal and AAR worked and still works fine even on the Adobe v.5 and on the v.8. It's the actual 2 page rank application form (the one with all the little squares) that can't be saved.

What does a scout do when he run outs of space on the front of hi sash due to the number of MBs? He bought the xl sash when he crossed that I did hem about 8" so I wouldn't have to rip out and reattach badges. I have let it out twice but it is not to its full size yet as the scout is still only about 5' tall so far (he's 14). In any case, he has 49 badges and is due to get about 5 more at the next COH. If he buys a second sash, how do we attach the sashes together? Is there an official guideline from BSA? I remember that boy who made the national news last year for earning all 122 and he was pictured wearing 3 oddly-attached sashes but I think we could get away with 2.

The NESA.org Eagle Scout Rank Application is an interactive form but it won't save changes. That means that the scout has to completely fill out the form in one sitting rather than writing it, saving it, and coming back later to finish and edit. We have the 8.something version of Adobe on our computer Does anyone know of the 2008 form that has a fully editable and savable format online so the scout won't have to do the whole thing over if he runs out of time?