Re: Question on Venturing uniforms.
Ted Burton (scouter@VALINT.NET)
Sun, 17 Jan 1999 08:02:31 -0800
At 10:39 -0500 on 1/15/1999, Cliff Keese mailed Question on Venturing
uniforms.:
> According to the more learned members of the list, BSA specifically
> prohibits emulating US military uniforms in the garb of scouts, but
> now it seems that the new venture program has the leeway to violate
> that rule. If this is true, isn't that a double standard that does
> nothing to bolster our credibility with scouts in regular units?
There are many catalogs that sell clothing for hunting that have a
wide variety of camo patterns for cargo-pocketed pants. Not every
camo pant is a military issue item.
Now possibly you were looking at what you in fact know to be military
BDU, I just wanted to open up the possibility that the crew in
question had been into a hunting catalog.
Ted
Thank you for listening. Ted Burton, Inland Northwest 611, Es Kaielgu 311
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