Re: Length of Troop Number

At 09:20 AM 5/30/96 -0400, you wrote:
>At our Troop meeting last night, we were discussing Troop numbers...
>Since our council merged w/ 2 other councils, the concern of duplicate
>troop numbers was mentioned... Someone said that Nat'l also associates
>a number to the troop that is something like 1082 ... where our troop number
>is 82... so each troop is unique w/in Nat'l ... True???? or not!
>

Not true. Each troop number is unique (or should be) within a council.
Also, a unit may have a local number that differs from its national
number.

Examples:

1) I was Scoutmaster of Troop 225 in Ventura County Council in
California. At one point, I saw an article in Scouting magazine
that showed members of a Troop 225 in Oregon.

2) At one time, the 414th Interceptor Wing at Oxnard Air Force Base
sponsored a troop. Its local number was Troop 414. Its national number
was Troop 244. The Ventura County Council assigned that number because
the troop was in District 2 of the council.

As to length of troop number, I seem to recall that it varies from 1 to
5 digits.

Yours in Scouting,

Rodger
Rodger Morris <rodger@fishnet.net>
Scoutmaster, Troop 852 Woodbadge 416-18
Ventura County Council Philmont, 1973
Camarillo, California, USA "I used to be a Beaver..."

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