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Prospective Eagle Scouts had been asked to demonstrate a “record of satisfactory service” since 1927. And in 1952, they were instructed to “do your best to help in your home, school, church or synagogue, and community” — an ambiguous instruction, to be sure. But on Oct. 1, 1965, the Eagle rank was forever changed when a requirement was added to plan, develop and carry out a service project helpful to the church, synagogue, school or community. (In 1972, the requirement to “give leadership to others” was added.) The other piece of this was the addition of the requirement to serve in a Troop Warrant Officer position. Since adults were not members of the troop they could not do this requirement effectively ending adults earning the Eagle Rank. Of course there are cases for Scouts with Disabilities and lost records which are covered in the Guide to Advancement.

Here's what I found: 50 nights was the requirement in the Jan 1951 HB 20 nights was the requirement in the June 1953 HB

My bad. The 50 nights is in my copy of the 1934 MB requirements booklet. I’ll have to look further on when it changed to 20.

IMHO this change is unnecessary. What is the purpose of 20 nights and requirement 9b? Teach youth how to take care of themselves in different types of outdoor experiences? If a scout goes to 4 summer camps, that’s 60 percent of the nights. Some scouts today are finishing their Eagle nights and have 75-100 total. we should go back to the pre 1960 camping mb requirement which was 50 nights with no longer term camps allowed.

This was "missing" from the 2025 MB updates. 9. Show experience in camping by doing the following: (a) Camp for at least 20 nights at designated Scouting activities or events. One long-term camping experience of up to six consecutive nights may be applied toward this requirement. Two nights may be counted toward the total for each additional long-term camping trip. Each night must be spent either under the sky, in a tent you have pitched yourself (if a tent is provided and already set up, you do not need to pitch your own), in a hammock that is safely strung outdoors, in a lean-to, or other three-sided shelter with an open front. Nights spent in indoor lock-in events, cabin camping, hotel stays, or other covered accommodations do not count toward the 20 nights.

Only other instruments allowed are for Reville…..Air Horn and Cymbals. merry Christmas

The most interesting item is the chapter 7 paragraph on online mbs. Pretty sure this will be ignored by councils that have huge online events with some classes up to 100 scouts and charging as high as $35 per badge.

The last post that I quickly saw related to the Girl scouts dropping was by Ducttape on 10/30. After that I didn't see one directly related. Went into Character, joining and commissioner posts.

This topic has strayed from the original post which was to identify and discuss Catholic diocese and units eliminating their scout programs.

GSA turn…I just saw the Archbishop of Cincinnati has dropped them from the diocese.

I'm not an expert in the CM policies but it would seem that having ANY youth group (School, sports, teen social groups) within the individual parishes are subject to YP and would cause the liability rates to go up.

Sure let's give boys and parents another reason to leave scouting. The assumption is that the G2SS and tenting are nirvana and the only barriers.

These issues have been around for a number of years. Wonder if there was something that pushed the Diocese to dropping scouts including not meeting. It was nice that they said the scouts could still work on religious emblems but I’m guessing the church would not allow the scouts to receive their awards at Scout Sunday Mass. yeesh

“Changes in Scouting itself”. Wonder which changes they are talking about?

@yknot......Numbers from 12/23 were inflated, as they are end of year in every report that the BSA issues in early January. Didn't we fire professionals in the past for padding numbers with phantom registrations?