scotteg83

Nope, but that is my Wife, Daughter, fellow Scout and my District Executive with the hippie hair.

When my son crossed over, he went on 4 weekend campouts with the troop without me. I had signed up as ASM right away, but only came to meetings. I went to summer camp his first summer, but that was for me, not him. In fact, there was very little times we were together. I took a training class the first two days. Summer camp is the closest thing I have to a personal vacation, and I very much enjoy it.

Just cause I haven't looked into the update. Whats the ruling on Traveling with scouts? If I have an all girl troop, and we are traveling in 2 different cars, can 1 car have a male adult and all girl scouts? Or do I now have to find another female leader for every car?

Angled stand? I didn't even think of that option! thank you!

First off, probably the wrong form choice, but whatever... We meet in a church's basement, and the ceiling is probably 7 foot with exposed heat pipes that have a six and a half(ish) clearance. So what do you recommend for our American and troop flags? I almost thought about getting the regular height poles, and cutting down the lower pole piece. Do you know if you can get extra lower pieces? It would be nice to switch back to a full height pole for camping and parades. And I am assuming the 'Traditional" size flag is the 3x5? Thanks for any input.

I have only purchased my first Den leader shirt and convertible pants at full price at the scout shop. Since then, I have grown to 8 shirts for me, 2 for my daughter, and 2 for my son, and combined 8 pairs of pants from ebay, craglist, facebook, and clearance at the scout shop. I think the most I have paid for a newer style shirt was $20 shipped. I also got the red jacshirt when they went on huge clearance awhile back, before they caught on and put them back to $80

PACAN was talking about Scout Rank in one day, not getting credit for higher ranks requirements being done before a scout.

My daughters troop is charter by a different origination then the 2 local boys units, and meets at different locations. We are a ground up unit, with myself and 1 other as having an Troop experience. We are going to our first Klondike this weekend, and will be the only girl unit there. I foresee in the future that we will NOT be doing joint campouts with boy troops, but will see them at Camporees and Summercamp.

See, thats what I get for assuming what the large pin was for. Didn't even think about needing paperwork for that as well. I will have to reach out to my advancement chair and see how many patches he really has, and if i can barrow some. I was looking on ebay to see if there was any unused bulk rank deals

We used matching dues cost to my sons troop. We didn't want to scare away anyone with a high number right off the bat. Once fundraising kicks in, money wont be an issue. But its the little things that a troop wants and does have. We already have homemade neckers and slides. All the girls had to buy unforms (luckily most got handy downs or used ones). But our first campout in Maine is either going to have a high cost for a cabin, or a high cost for startup minimum equipment.

So a little back story first. I am the Scoutmaster for a troop that has been around for 90 years, and sometime in the past, we got a big bag of unused rank patches (back when the Scout badge was brown and not a rank). So for immediate recognition we present the rank patch to the Scouts during closing of that meeting. Our advancement chair then fills out an an advancement report for council, and turns it all in before our COH. Using that advancement report, he then buys the patch to replace our "stock". During the COH, the scouts are awarded their rank cards and parent pins. Now, I have help started a Brand new troop with no start-up money besides dues. The Scouts haven't planed their year or fundraising, so costs have to be kept at a minimum. I know the scout shop sells a bigger pin for immediate rank recognition, but that just seems like a unnecessary extra cost. How does your troop handle this? Do the Scouts keep the pin? or trade it back in for their cloth patch during the COH? Do you Recognize, but not award anything till the COH? Thanks for any thoughts, Scott

Cool, Haven't gotten into that yet personally. My kids aren't old enough yet.

Does that fall under the "no double dipping"? If you are dual registered as a Venture/Sea Scout and a troop, can you earn the merit badge WHILE getting the Venture/Sea Scouts requirements done?

I'm glad you got it all off your chest, but If i was the recipient, I don't think I would even bother reading the entire email. Talk about a long winded response. You are no longer a leader of the old troop, it is not your responsibility to explain yourself to anyone in that unit.

As District Program chair, I've been tasked with getting our District more active, and get the troops to WANT to attend district events. I came across a patch from a friend that showed we did a Bike-o-ree in 1987. Now off course, he doesn't remember anything about it, so he wasn't much help. But it did start me on some ideas. First thing first, are their any special Safety issues or guild-lines I need to follow? I am thinking of either getting together with our local skiing mountain and seeing if we can make a camporee there, and have mountain biking as the big event. Rentals through the ski place, as needed. Get some local bike shops to setup bike inspection stations. Get some Merit badge councilors to get them started on the bicycling merit badge. I have connections with the ski place (former scoutmaster of my troop). The second thought, is to also have Road biking, and plan a loop trip to start/finish at the event. But what extra would I need for that? I could reach out to some local charity rides (there's plenty) to see what safety requirements they go through, but I didn't know what BSA requires. Personally, I would think it would be "easier" to do mountain biking at one location then take on the responsibility of taking Scouts down the back-roads of Maine. Let me know what you know, and if you have any more ideas. If all go well, this wouldn't be until Spring 2020. YIS Scott

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There's no patches at all on either. The official roll out pdf shows them wearing the crest.

I hope they come out with patches to sew over your existing uniform brand strip. Would be nice to have a matching labeled uniform for men to wear as leaders

If its a council ran camping (resident or weekend event), aren't they supposed to have a shelter available? Primitive or not? Our local summer camp watches that radar like a hawk. Every summer it never fails that at least half the weeks get a storm.

That tree on the cabin is a different camp

yes!

We had a tree come down this last season during a storm that destroyed a councilors cabin (small one). Luckily the camp was following the Hazard Weather procedures, and were in storm shelters (mess hall, rec hall, etc). They used this as a big learning experience as those 2 staffers were complaining the week prior that they would have rather stay in their cabin then being in the mess hall.

Anyone still mess kit cook? With the starting of a new troop for Girls, with no startup funds, I was going suggest all the girls get metal mess kits (maybe field trip to the closest army surplus) and teach them how to cook over the fire.

Talk to your SM, if that doesn't work, talk to the CC. If that doesn't work, talk to the COR. If none of that works, then reach out to your DE or District Advancement Coordinator

Our troops Eagle COH are for only Eagles and nobody else. So that doesn't really work as a comeback