Re: Wearing International Jamboree Council Patch
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Mon, 11 Jan 1999 17:07:12 -0600
Lots of stuff to add to the Insignia site....
Bill Blymiller <bblymill@TAMPABAY.RR.COM> asked:
>My son just returned from the 1999 International Jamboree in Chile
>(he slept for 14 hours when he got home so he must have had a
>really good time)
And I betcha when he wakes, he's got several HUNDRED stories to
tell you all...listen to each one of them!!
>His contingent to the Jamboree has Council Patches and he asked if
>he could wear the Jambo Council patch instead of the local Council
>patch. I told him I would look it up. All I can find is
>information concerning National Jambo Council patches. It seems
>that in National Jamboree years a participant can continue to wear
>the Jamboree Council patch for 6 months after the event is
>over. Is it the same for the International?
Yep. Whether the event is a World or National Jamboree, or a
special event like a special trek to Philmont undertaken by that
Council and they issued a special CSP for that contingent, the rule
is that the *participant* gets to wear the CSP for six months after
the conclusion of the activity and then must revert to his or her
Council's "regular issued" CSP.
*Visitors* to the event, regardless of stay, do NOT get to wear the
special CSP at all and should be wearing the "regular issued" CSP.
Some Councils are in the "process" of creating special CSPs for
their Eagle Scouts or for fund-raising means, and as far as I'm
aware, the same policy applies for those special CSPs created as
well.
The policy was announced by the Jamboree Division at the conclusion
of the National Jamboree in 1985, and has the concurrence of the
BSA's National Uniform and Insignia Committee. Does everyone
follow it, especially since the BSA has had since 86 to put in
within the Insignia Guide?? Nope.
Should it be followed? In *my opinion*, yep. There's not a reason
to wear a special CSP for no more than a few months after the event
is over, since like a Wood Badge Patrol, you are a part of that
contingent just for that event. The six months allow for a bit of
self- and Council/National promotion concerning the event.
But that's why we also have the special BSA Jamboree insignia and
the Contingent Insignia for World or International Jamborees and
the special place where that insignia should go.
Great question!!
Settummanque!
>Thanks for the help.
>
>(He is going to his first regular Troop meeting tonight with a
> Korean Boy
>Scout shirt, a jacket from the Philipines, and a cap from England.
> Boy is
>he pumped!)
>
>Thanks,
>
>Bill Blymiller
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