what is in a color for shoulder loops

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Fuzzy Bear - my son took JLT-C in the summer of '03. He was in the "red" patrol and as such wore an extra red (about half the width of standardshoulder loops) loop on his right(?) shoulder. Being red and on top of his boy Scout red shoulder loop of the same color, not many people notice it. However, to this day he stills wears it on one of his shirts and is very proud of it.

 

Some uniform faux pas I don't bother with (like my son's). On returning from a Camporee in Canada one year I wore the Scouts Canada Beaver shoulder loops (Canadian Cub Scouts so to speak) to my Webelos den meeting. I knew it wasn't regulation but I wanted to show the Webelos some of the sizzle of Boy Scouts and they served as a good conversation piece. No harm done in my book but some of the uniform police may have arrested me. Other uniform gaffs do bother me - like a leader wearing the untrainable patch (permanently). Oh well, that's life I suppose.

 

Sort of like once a Bear, always a Bear (now about those Beavers ...)