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Re: Uniform items -- NOT made in USA!
Alan Houser (troop24@EMF.NET)
Fri, 12 Mar 1999 09:01:49 -0800
Nat Davis <ndavis@VT.EDU> wrote:
>Re: National's "made in America" policy that many of you mentioned in the
>big BDU discussion.
>
>Have you ever noticed the "made in some Asian country" sticker on the back
>of most of the badges and camp patches that are "sold" to the scouts? In
>our council, we MUST order camp patches (like for summer camp or district
>camp-o-rees) through our council office and, when these patches arrive,
>they seem to always have a made-in-a-foreign-country sticker on the back.
>Over the course of several years, most active scouts/scouters will have
>paid more money for these foreign-made patches (as they attend various
>patch-generating activities) than they paid for their US made shirts and
>pants...
>Sort of an ironic contradiction to BSA's "made here" policy for other parts
>of the uniform.
>If its OK for the patches to be made overseas, why the insistence on the
>shirt and pants being made in the US?
Add to the list of patches "Made in (somewhere outside the US)" the Quality
Unit emblems and any customized patches we've ordered directly throught the
BSA catalog.
YiS,
Alan R. Houser ** troop24@emf.net
** Scoutmaster, Troop 24, Berkeley, California **
** Boy Scout Roundtable Commissioner, Herms District **
** WWW page ** http://www.emf.net/~troop24/t24.html **
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