gplundberg

Will do!

Thank you so much for the advice! I really appreciate it!

Hello Everyone! I am currently 18 years old and about a year ago I made the decision to enlist in the Coast Guard. As of right now, I have not been able to be very active in scouting due to finishing school and working 35 hours a week on top of that. I will ship out to boot camp July 25th and I will not know where I will be stationed at until the 5th week of basic. Wherever I get stationed I would like to become an ASM at a local troop. I just have a couple of questions for some younger ASM's out there. Since I am still young and being an ASM I'm thinking that my interactions with the scouts will be much different than the other ASM's that may be some scouts fathers, how would you deal with this? I know I will still be pretty busy getting all of my qualifications done once I am at my first station for a year or so and would it be better to wait to become an ASM when I have more time to dedicate to the troop? Scouting is very big in my area (DC/Northern Virginia) I want to say about 25% of people in my current class are active in scouting and within 10 miles of my area there are probably 8 troops ranging from 50 to 100 per troop, are most scout troops about this size in the rest of the country or are they smaller? I will greatly appreciate all comments and answers!