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RE: Waiting on my Ticket Counselor
Posted: Wednesday, 8/31/2005: 7:28:42 AM     quality
Hi Neil, and thank you for the words and advice. No Sir, I don't think it would be prudent to wear beads while sailing. But, you ought to see us rappell in white!
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VFW Wood Badge Scholarship
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 9:32:53 PM quality
I'd also like to mention that the VFW has a Wood Badge Scholarship for its members to attend WB. Notre Dame didn't want me for football, but I did get a full ride to Wood Badge!
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RE: Waiting on my Ticket Counselor
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 9:24:21 PM quality
Yes, but if I don't finish mine....I am certain that I would unmercifully jabbed and ribbed all my remaining days on this earth and then into the great beyond.
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RE: Waiting on my Ticket Counselor
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 8:14:08 PM quality
Did Beckett Sail?
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RE: Waiting on my Ticket Counselor
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 7:27:21 PM quality
aaargh! Me trustee Mate. Trustworthy has a bad main halyard and won't be available. But, alas, the fine sailing vessel, SSS Loyal, would be a fine, fine platform for such an event.
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Waiting on my Ticket Counselor
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 5:45:45 PM quality
Submitted all my ticket items several days ago. Waiting on my ticket counselor to approve them or put me back to work.
If he OK's my work, I'd like him to present the beads, and wouldn't it be a fantastic idea to award them on the Sea Scout Ship Trustworthy out on Lake Michigan in the very near future?
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RE: Sea Scouts
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 2:22:28 PM quality
Thanks OGE, appreciate that. A Scuba Ship is a registered Sea Scout Ship that has SCUBA as it's main theme. An example would be the S.S. Scuba Dog. The unit uses the Sea Scout advancement program, Sea Scout uniforming, participates in our Sea Scout events, but instead of sailing with us, they dive. The leadership are qualified master divers and the majority of the Sea Scouts are qualified open water divers, as of this summer. Fantastic program. Fantastic Ship. One of our Ship's highlights this year was to take a Discover Scuba session that the Scuba Dogs hosted for us.
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RE: Loss of Charter
Posted: Tuesday, 8/30/2005: 12:19:20 PM quality
Call your nearest American Legion Post. They will most likely be more than willing to help out!
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RE: Sea Scout affiliated Venturing Crews
Posted: Monday, 8/29/2005: 3:13:26 PM quality
Uh? What is Uh? Uh, go pound sand!
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RE: Sea Scout affiliated Venturing Crews
Posted: Sunday, 8/28/2005: 12:51:40 PM quality
Why create something newish, when it already exists? An aquatic Venture Crew is called a Sea Scout Ship. Isn't it? Sailing, motorboating, waterskiing, canoeing, camping, shooting sports, alpine skiing, backpacking, SCUBA, snorkeling, Philmont, Sea Base, limited only by your Quarterdeck's imagination.
Sea Scouts has an advancement program, it has standard uniforms, it has its own ceremonies, and other unique program items. Presenting the Small Boat Handler and Qualified Seaman alone takes months of work and effort to earn. Able Sea Scouts need to teach many requirements themselves in order to earn QM. Somebody just needs to teach them "how" to teach an hour block of instruction. Hey, that's a class right there. I'll have to have one of my trustee Mate's design a train-the-trainer course for our Ordinarys and future Ables. Hint, hint. Sea Scouts need to be BSA lifeguards, no easy task. They need to be CPR certified.
One of the best things you can do is get a boat. We've had gatherings on meeting days where they worked on the boats all day long. Never seen them happier. Get a boat!
Sea Scouts also have the SEAL Training program. Without a doubt, the toughest 7 days of Scouting they'll experience. My SEAL graduates came back extremely proud of graduating that course, and by golly, they even looked an inch or two taller.
I, personally, me, like the structure and program that the Sea Scouts offer compared to a Venture Crew. Even the weakest Sea Scout leader has some type of program example to use, whereas a weak Venture Crew leader is doomed.
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RE: Need To Look Into Sea Scouts.
Posted: Monday, 8/15/2005: 1:58:45 PM quality
The current Sea Scout manual illustrates and describes two youth Sea Scout uniforms. Our ship has decided to use this national standard as our example.
My advice to a new ship would still be to uniform your new ships exactly as the current manual describes, both for youth and adults. Why would you do it differently?
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RE: Need To Look Into Sea Scouts.
Posted: Sunday, 8/14/2005: 4:01:20 PM quality
Hey Terry,
How about a Sea Scout forum!!!
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RE: Need To Look Into Sea Scouts.
Posted: Friday, 8/12/2005: 4:17:54 PM quality
meamemg,
I had a private laugh to myself regarding regretting being drawn in. It brought back a memory of my Army Basic Training. A bus full of teenagers being bussed from Ft. Jackson, SC, where we got shots and uniforms down to Ft. Gordon, GA, where the basic was held, and not a peep was heard on that bus. We got to Ft. Gordon and the bus pulled into the Brehms Barrracks area and several of the privates out on a work detail started waving their arms at the bus and were hollering, "Go Back! Go Back!" I was terrified. "Go Back!"
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RE: Need To Look Into Sea Scouts.
Posted: Friday, 8/12/2005: 1:34:27 PM quality
So is backpacker FOG trolling from a different library or what?
Mike, so you've been putting up this arguement based on what you remember from the past? The new national standard has the bugs gone as are the youth dress blue uniform. I believe the National Commodore wants all ships uniformed uniformly. So, we've done it, and you would surely recommend to any new unit to stay with the current guidelines. I would anyway.
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RE: Need To Look Into Sea Scouts.
Posted: Friday, 8/12/2005: 8:03:05 AM quality
Bob, did you kick backpacker's dog in a past life? Nice research.
Another idea for you Eamonn, would be to hold your meetings near some water. If you have a boat club or a yacht club on a lake or river, it has been my experience that the club members love to see scouts out boating around. Last Father's Day weekend we got in a huge amount of sail time, and before we left our ship sat together in dress whites at a breakfast buffet at the yacht club we were visiting. I overheard one member whisper, "those are Sea Scouts, they've been racing in the harbor." Then I overheard a lady whisper to her table, "Don't those Sea Scouts look fabulous?" LOL. By golly, we did look fabulous.
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