Hello everyone, Well, this is a plan we have been working on for over a year now and we plan to put it into action this year. This somewhat rewrites the troop structure and especially the leadership patrol. We have put this idea to our DE with encouraging response so far. I beleive he wants to see a working model. Here it is. Up until now the leadership patrol has an appointed position of Den Cheif that may or may not change at every election. Sometimes the Den Cheif is an unwilling appointee and does little to fulfill his duties. Our idea is to remove the Den Cheif position from the leadership patrol and make an entire patrol of just Den Cheif's. This would be an elite patrol with special privledges and special activities that would make it a very desired position within the troop. The membership of this patrol would last for as long as the scout wished to remain in the patrol. Each patrol member would be assigned a Cub Pack to assist and each month we would invite Webelos from a different pack to camp with our troop. We would also of course invite their parents to join our troop for the outing. That would mean that on most camping trips we would be hosting Webelos. A constant recruitment program year round. Also, this Den Cheif patrol would have special duties as troop honor guard at flag ceremonies. In short, we make the Den Chief patrol THE place to be for Scouts fist class and above. Of course if this plan works the way we think it might, we may have to cut back in a short time because we should be overrun with new scouts. We are hoping anyway. I would love feedback on this plan.
