Name that adult patrol...

[Herms]

Our adult patrols is called the Anasazi Patrol, an old indian word meaning "the ancient ones", but man can we make a good dutch oven cobbler!.

[OneHour]

At OLST, we called ourselves the Aging Armadilloes. We made patrol patches that have an armadillo on his back with a bottle of Lone Star. Of course, that was only amongst the adult at OLST.

[LPC_Thumper]

Name: Lawn Chair Patrol

Flag: Tripod lashed together with THE official Lawn Chair Patrol Emblem lashed to it.

Emblem: We have a specific lawn chair (these are the large folding ones that have canvas seat, and back, aluminum padded arms) We have graduated parents out of the lawn chair patrol (their sons have turned 18, and they want to do something other than Scouts)

Yell: "(various yawns)... Is it time to eat yet?" The more disorganized the better.

 

We cook together, and do things together. We try to show our Scouts how fun this can be. We work hard to have the best food, sometimes we do sometimes we don't (we've got boys that use mom's cookbooks, etc). Is this competition? You bet! Do the boys know it's fun? Oh yeah! We have all the adults eat with this patrol, except for the Scoutmaster with the NSP (we always cook too much, so that the long faces don't starve)

 

This keeps our adults busy enough to allow the Scouts to learn what they need to learn.

[Fuzzy Bear]

Wearing patrol patches is wrong, wrong, wrong. Either you are on the boat or you are off the boat. If any of us see your patrol patch, off it comes using a sheath knife. (just a little humor)

FB

[whitewater]

I agree that adults wearing a patrol patch is wrong since it violates uniform standards. However, there is nothing that says the adults can't have a patrol flag and set an example for the boys in that way.

[LPC_Thumper]

Now you see why we use a lawn chair... Sure we can lash it to a tripod, not really a flag, but it's something. And if an adult is dumb enough to try and sew a lawn chair to their sleeve, we can leave him on the trail, at least he'll have a place to sit.

 

I agree there is such a thing as an adult uniform, and a youth uniform. While both have things on them that are similar, there are very important differences.

[Proud Eagle]

Adults don't wear patrol patches on the uniform for their troop/pack/district/crew/council/ect. uniform.

 

However, if an adult still has a uniform rigged as their Wood Badge uniform, it is perfectly fine to have a patrol patch on that. I know a couple of people in my council that never reconfigured their wood badge shirts, and instead keep them for periodic wear to wood badge reunions, or just for when the run out of other clean uniforms. This works particularly well in our council, since there is a Wood Badge council strip.

[Christofer_H]

The wearing of a patrol patch on an adults uniform is acceptable as long as the boys have decided that it is a proper part of the Troop uniform for their adults. BSA National allows troops to add "Troop uniform items" such as patches, camping record beads, custom neckerchiefs, etc., therefore if the Troop decides to allow the adults to wear the patrol patches they efffectivly become "Troop uniform Items". By the way Our adult patrol's name is the "Old Craokers" and we wear the frog patrol patch upside-down.

 

YIS,

Chris Hartman

North Star District

District Advancement Chairman

Scoutmaster Troop #440

Richwood, Ohio

[candidapax]

Our patrol name is the "Guidos" and we do have our own patch.

the background is orange with green flames and around it is our

motto "Leading by Example"

We do what the scouts does, if we have a fundraising talent show, the adults participate even though some of us really do not have a talent.

[CA_Scouter]

Our adults don't have a patrol per se, its just that we use the phrase to refer to all the adults on the current campout.

 

We are known as the "Rocking Chair Patrol" and/or the "Council of Elders".

 

We did the Council of Elders thing at summer camp last year, and one of the ASM's carved a staff upon which he attached whatever shiny stuff we could find, then we ruled by decree... 'yada, yada, so saeth the Council of Elders'... we yukked it up pretty good, those poor kids groaned and rolled their eyes everytime they saw us coming...