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[crgholthus]

Will someone please explain all the different levels of OA?

I just renewed my membership after 15 year absence.

We just had our Klondike Derby.(-17 dgrees at night but it was a blast). Run very well, & I would like to get more involved, but I dont remember a thing, except when I got "tapped out" in 1984.

 

[SemperParatus]

From the OA website (nonprotected) - should answer your questions.

 

http://www.oa-bsa.org/qanda/

 

[NWScouter]

OA has three levels of membership Person elected by their units is tapped-out and they then go through an Ordeal and become a member of the Order of the Arrow as an Ordeal Member (just a arrow on their sash). Ten months later they are able to seal their membership and become a Brotherhood Member (a bar on about an inch or so from both ends of the arrow on their sash). After two more years they are eligible to selected for Vigil Honor (add a triangle to the middle of the arrow on the Brotherhood sash), only a few are selected from the lodge depending on its size. This is an honor and not all are chosen only those deemed to have done service beyond the usual.

 

All members are considered equal; no level is required to serve in as an Officer in any level (chapter, lodge, section, region, or national).

 

[acco40]

Not to be picayune, but nobody gets "tapped out" anymore. The procedure is called out (youth protection strikes again).

[crgholthus]

Thanks NWS, that helped alot. Stuff in the BSA has changed so much,over a fifteen year absence.

[NWScouter]

I know, but some times I slip. It was 36 years ago when I was tapped out