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  1. Hello

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  2. Changing Troop Culture as a New Scouter 1 2

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  3. Spelunking/caving merit badge???

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  4. Excited to be a part of the Forum and this website!

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  5. New here, but not to scouting. Trying to help my kid's troop, but about to give up.

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  6. Looking for some help

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  7. New Scouter in WNY

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  8. New Scoutmaster in Maine 1 2

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  9. Does This Go Against YPT?

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  10. Returning as dad of a Lion

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  12. Newbie just trying to learn...

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  13. Jumping back into the Game. Cheers!

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  15. There is no question that I have made a million faux pas in communication through out my life.

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    • InquisitiveScouter
      What?? You've Got to Be Kidding Me with These Membership Numbers!

      By InquisitiveScouter · Posted

      Yes, the 31 December 2025 number of "Total Unit-Based" is 877,403.  If you included Learning for Life numbers, then the total youth served by Scouting America programs on 31 Dec 2025 was 907,950. The 31 Dec 2024 Unit-Based number was 956,541.  So, that one year period change was a loss of 79,138 Scouts, or an 8.27% loss from the Dec 2024 numbers. Current number reporting today (Unit-Based only) is 837,145. There have been numerous problems with online registrations, particularly if families delayed...  If the unit charter lapsed, families were blocked from renewing registrations.  I imagine we will be seeing a cleanup of that boondoggle through March.  So, my gut tells me the 837K number is low.  If accurate, it would mean a loss 40K Scouts since end of 2025. (Another loss of 4.56% of membership.) 
    • jcousino
      Online Training Is Horrible.

      By jcousino · Posted

      Will be on WB staff next time around.
    • jcousino
      Cost of Scouting vs Cost of Sports

      By jcousino · Posted

      That was easy to predict.  Merit badge mills. Hard to hold the line when just  replace you. Part of the reason  the eagle badge means less.
    • Eagle94-A1
      Cost of Scouting vs Cost of Sports

      By Eagle94-A1 · Posted

      I was invited to teach a MB at an MBU. Told them point blank it would be a partial. Sent out email telling Scouts in the class what things they could do before the MBU to get the MB. I got a lot of complaints, and was never asked back. Irony was it was Indian Lore MB, and i had a full blood Lakota stationed at the air base "auditing" my class. I got a lot of praise from her for what we went over. Too bad she wasn't in the session with the smart aleck who asked "which is more violent, Rugby or Lacrosse" My response was "While rugby is a thug sport played by gentlemen, and rugby's unofficial motto is 'Give Blood, Play Rugby,' no one ever was enslaved or executed for losing a game of rugby whereas in some versions of lacrosse losers were enslaved or ritually sacrificed. So Lacrosse is the more violent of the two."  Shut him down the rest of the class.
    • Eagle94-A1
      Online Training Is Horrible.

      By Eagle94-A1 · Posted

      Here is the irony, he is fully trained and is scheduled to go to WB in the near future.

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