A request, please:
Settummanque, the blackeagle ("MAJ)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 01:05:35 -0500
I need some assistance, please:
(Mike Walton, needing help?? Yep. Please.)
I am due to present some "end-of-tour" awards to some of the people working
here, as well as to visit all of the BSA and host-nation Scouting units down
here in this part of Central America.
The visits will start about the first part of August, and finish up around
the middle to the end of August. The "end-of-tour" presentation to my boss
(a former Scout, two merit badges from earning Eagle) and a Scouter from
that Council I "swore" I would never have any dealings with
(Georgia-Carolina, Augusta, Georgia) will be on the 10th of August.
The Scouter from Fort Gordon, has served as my "personal" interpreter and
has enabled me to work with Scouting units throughout Central America during
my stay and work down here. Officially, he's a driver and supply specialist
for the command here. However, he has translated host-nation newspapers and
magazine articles about the New Horizons series of exercises; most recently,
he has spent this past Sunday after returning from leave working the phones
and talking with Spainish-language papers explaining the impact of the
earthquake in Guatemala (which was only a few miles from where an American
military basecamp was set up) on our continuing humanitarian mission up
there (and never complained about the long day yesterday and Sunday; yep, a
Scouter)!!
(and yep, fellow military Scouters; the young staff sergeant has been "put
in" for a military decoration from this office for his Scouting stuff!)
My "four-pound binder" does not have a copy of the BSA's Supply Division
catalog, and therefore I cannot find (and my three-hour search of our
archives, both at Texas Christian University as well as through Scouter.com)
failed to yield me the answers I need.
(This has taught me two lessons: one, put a copy of the current (or a)
catalog in the binder; and two, if you know you are going someplace where
BSA resources won't be readily available, have a "plan b" ready!
*smiling*)
So...
1) Can anyone out there please send me PRIVATELY (to either of the below
addresses!) the BSA stock number for the Kente cloth neckerchief.
2) Can anyone out there please check with their Council's trading post or
with their Scout Shop(tm) to see if they have SEVEN of these neckerchiefs in
stock? (two locally; one each to Scouting leaders from the countries of El
Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Nicaragua; and one for me to wear during
the presentations).
3) If so, would you please be kind enough to provide me with their phone
number and ask them if they would take a credit card number over the phone,
again PRIVATELY.
My Scouting peers in most of these countries are presenting specially-carved
wooden plaques and I wanted to present something truly American yet
something distinctive. I realize that this is poor planning on my part, but
I'm hoping that some Council has a few of these items around somewhere
waiting to be purchased and used as designed.
In advance, I thank you all for any help or leads!!
Settummanque!
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(MAJ) Mike L. Walton (settummanque, the blackeagle)
http://www.mninter.net/~blkeagle
Joint Information Bureau Deputy Director
US SOUTHCOM FCE (Enhanced New Horizons)
APO Miami, AA 34042 (Soto Cano AB, Honduras)
personal inquiries via kyblkeagle@aol.com,
blackeagle@SCOUTER.net or blkeagles@hotmail.com
professional inquiries via fcepa@jtfb-emh1.army.mil or
waltonmi@usarc-emh2.army.mil
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