2016 Guide To Advancement?

[blw2]

Has anybody heard if they plan to revise the Guide To Advancement?

I'm guessing the 2015 edition doesn't address the new stuff.

[NJCubScouter]

I have not seen any indication of one.  They seem to be issuing new editions every two years - the completely revamped edition (the first to actually be called "Guide to Advancement") was in 2011 I believe, with revisions in 2013 and 2015.  Of course, none of this means that they won't decide to publish a revision this year, but I see nothing to suggest that they will.

 

I don't think the changes to the requirements necessarily require a new edition of the G2A.  To my recollection, the actual requirements are not printed in the G2A.  The only thing I know of that is probably now "wrong" is that Scout is now a "rank" rather than the "joining badge", and the 2015 edition has a picture of the old badge (they changed the color of the fleur-de-lis from brown to gold.)  But the procedures for "Scout" are still the same - there is still a Scoutmaster Conference but no Board of Review.  It is possible that there are also a few other things that are outdated, but I doubt they would be enough to require publication of a new edition sooner than they would otherwise.

[John-in-KC]

The requirements, per some stuff we saw from the National Advancement Team, are posted first now on scouting.org.  Then, they are incorporated annually into BSA requirements #33015.

 

Guide to Advancement is the adult book for how to implement the method, nationwide.  Requirements is the adult and youth book which lays out what has to be done, rank by rank, merit badge by merit badge, across the programs of Scouting.