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@tk71 welcome to scouter.com

@MacBrave welcome to scouter.com

Me too. I have an old Byer Maine Military Cot that was made in Maine. Good cot. I haven't tried the newer, made in China, Byer cots. I also have not tried Camp Time cots ($150) which are still made in USA. My $0.02

Doubt it. Explorers started in Sept, 1949. At that time, he was a 23yr old WW2 veteran attending Purdue. In 1950, he graduated with a BS in mechanical engineering. http://www.seniorscoutinghistory.org/seniorscoutsite/explorers.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gus_Grissom#World_War_II_military_service

I stand corrected. Hard to argue with Norman Rockwell's portrait of a young @scoutldr

@CaptBurgers , the den chief cord should be over left shoulder. IMHO maybe add a Band-Aid, a defacto part of the uniform, to the knee or elbow.

@KLB welcome to scouter.com

Congratulations. Your call, but I can tell you what I like to hear at a ECOH. I like the Eagle to tell me the trail forward. Tell your audience about your life plans, schooling, your budding medical career - doing your best, doing your duty, helping other people,... My $0.02,

Thanks for the link, but I think it supports my criticism "...many have speculated that NASA’s decision was a symptom of flawed, biased logistics" Hugo Award-winning author Mary Robinette Kowal tweeted Tuesday afternoon emphasizing that the spacesuits, originally designed more than 40 years ago, were meant to have only a 15-year lifespan and be refurbished periodically to mitigate and repair wear and tear. Only four of the original 18 are aboard the ISS. “When NASA says there’s not one readily available, it’s sort of like...yeah. There’s one up there, but we aren’t sure it won’t leak,” Kowal wrote. If we had more spacesuits, and ones in smaller sizes, it’s possible all of this could have been avoided. And if NASA had been more inclusive toward women since its inception, perhaps we would have had them. Kowal’s Twitter thread noted that when NASA nixed its small and XL suit sizes due to budget cuts, “many of the male astronauts could not fit into the L suits, so the XLs were brought back.” But the smallest suits weren’t. IMO, Atlantic Monthly has a more detailed article. https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/nasa-spacesuit-women-spacewalk/585805/ Today astronauts still use the same 40-year-old space suits; NASA hasn’t made any new ones since they were designed. Several have been lost over the years including in the Challenger and Columbia disasters and in a SpaceX cargo mission that exploded in 2015. ...In the past decade, NASA has spent nearly $200 million on space-suit development for future missions, including to Mars, but “the agency remains years away from having a flight-ready spacesuit capable of replacing the EMU or suitable for use on future exploration missions,” Reality is stranger (dumber) than fiction and news reports. My SPL stands ready. He was also a QM, as alll SPL's should be. My $0.02 P.S. This just in ... "NASA is willing to pay participants about nearly $19,000 to spend two whole months watching TV in bed. " No explanation why NASA did not just observe bedridden, medical patients.

@nspdx welcome to scouter.com

@dfg890 welcome to scouter.com

January 23, 2018, during the Marshall County High School (KY) shooting, Eagle Scout Drew Coleman, a junior, was evacuating the school and came across a fellow student who had been injured. "I saw him, it was just a black figure, he had a hood on and he was just looking down at the barrel of the gun aiming real close to us," explains Drew. Drew says he and his friends took off. The voice inside his head the entire time? His father, Marshall County Sheriff's Deputy JT Coleman, who was among the first emergency responders to arrive at the school. "He taught me three things: first you run, then you hide, if you can't hide you fight," explains Drew. "So my instinct was just to run." "I'm an Eagle Scout, so I was able to treat him for shock stop his blood," says Drew. Coleman relied on his scout training and applied pressure to the student’s gunshot wound during the shooting and stayed with them until an ambulance arrived. Coleman was honored with the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal for “Unusual Heroism in Saving or Attempting to Save Life at Considerable Risk to Self.” Two students, Preston Cope and Bailey Holt were killed. Fourteen other students were shot and four had other injuries. "It was horrible, you just can't imagine," says Deputy Coleman. "There was blood everywhere, kids everywhere." http://www.kfvs12.com/2019/03/27/marshall-county-high-school-student-honored-providing-life-saving-care-during-school-shooting/ https://fox17.com/news/local/marshall-county-high-school-shooting-untold-stories-of-survival-and-safety https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/crime/2019/01/17/marshall-county-high-school-kentucky-shooting-a-year-later/2593728002/ Scout salute,

@chief027 welcome to scouter.com. Thanks for adding tags to your topic. I'll launch some flares here to members who come to mind. I am sure there are many more with camp staff experience here. @desertrat77 @WAKWIB @bob_kins @Eagle94-A1 @Sentinel947

Second or third source news stories from separate sources can help. My $0.02

They are the newcomers., the rookies, to the game of Scouting.

Who doesn't like a story of a group of underdogs working hard and winning the contest? Miracle on Ice , Hoosiers, 1960 Pirates, ...

If a scout is elected into OA but for whatever reason decides it is not for him, all he has to do is to courteously inform the Lodge with a thanks but no. Granted some elected scouts just do not intend OA and in a year, the Lodge removes them. Above is my understanding. Hang around to hear from better informed forum members.

@Momof welcome to scouter.com. Sounds like a easy fix, how did this happen?

My SPL and his PL's do a gear check before our troop goes out. Clothing is particularly important as having the necessary and proper layers and footwear contribute to successful activities. Thousands of other scout troops do the same. History was supposed to be made Friday when, for the first time, two female astronauts were scheduled to do a spacewalk together outside the International Space Station. However, one of the astronauts was switched out this week because of a lack of "spacesuit availability." PPPPPP. Be Prepared. https://www.npr.org/2019/03/26/706779637/nasa-scraps-first-all-female-spacewalk-for-want-of-a-medium-sized-spacesuit

IMHO, the intersection of Politics and Scouting will be the Environment. I would be not be surprised if the current teen global climate movement continues to grow and appears at Jambo this summer.

@SBSkip welcome to scouter.com

Same for me. Back then I had these 2 sashes. I kept thinking why not one sash. The front for mb's, the back for OA.

@thewanderingdude , er... your Dudeness welcome to scouter.com

Mukwonago, WI Troop 229 Scout Master Steve Sherrod said his troop has 28 girls ages 11-17. There are larger troops with 30 or more girls. Source and a good video interview of scoutmaster and his daughter. https://www.tmj4.com/news/local-news/mukwonago-home-to-one-of-nations-biggest-all-girls-scouts-bsa-troops