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  1. Decorum And Acting Scoutlike

    By SCOUTER-Terry,
    • 70 replies
    • 12869 views

  2. Message from the Moderators re: links

    By NJCubScouter,
    • 0 replies
    • 1261 views

  3. New LDS Guidelines for BSA recruiting beginning 6/1/19

    Topic was moved to forum Open Discussion - Program

  4. Girl Scouts Suing the Boy Scouts

    By 69RoadRunner,
    • 414 replies
    • 20697 views

  5. Youth Protection Clarification Question

    By Tatung42,
    • 42 replies
    • 1483 views

  6. Potential loss of COR

    By ncscouterz,
    • 8 replies
    • 265 views

  7. Girls in Boy Scouts in the News (and in recruiting numbers)...

    By mrkstvns,
    • 66 replies
    • 2646 views

  8. Archery Lawsuit Against BSA

    By 5thGenTexan,
    • 10 replies
    • 835 views

  9. Our youth versus their youth?

    By SSScout,
    • 0 replies
    • 183 views

  10. School Newspaper

    By Eagle1993,
    • 6 replies
    • 536 views

  11. Cub Scout takes knee during pledge

    By walk in the woods,
    • 28 replies
    • 1553 views

  12. How should I help my boy?

    By jsychk,
    • 59 replies
    • 2429 views

  13. Eagle Scout Extension for new 2019 Scouts

    By scotteg83,
    • 168 replies
    • 7578 views

  14. Girl Scouts Should Stay To Girl Scouts

    By NickWeaver,
    • 1 reply
    • 282 views

  15. Omaha Tribe Elder and Others - disrepect at National Mall

    By RememberSchiff,
    • 42 replies
    • 2228 views

  • LATEST POSTS

    • Sentinel947
      "Pencil Whipping" Requirements

      By Sentinel947 · Posted

      You can get more flies with honey than with vinegar. 

      I believe Unit Commissioners operate best when they are a friendly face, a mentor, a guide. Not a police officer, an inspector or an enforcer. Unless there is some sort of health or safety issue going on, a soft power approach is going to fix far more units than a confrontational and aggressive approach. Maybe your district or council does things differently than mine. 

      https://meritbadge.org/wiki/index.php/Unit_Commissioner
    • ParkMan
      "Pencil Whipping" Requirements

      By ParkMan · Posted

      Same here.  A CC of a local troop asked the DC to stop sending a certain UC to their unit.  
    • TAHAWK
      Vintage Uniform Question

      By TAHAWK · Posted

      Sure was.  1980.   Here's a start; https://mediafiles.scoutshop.org/m2pdf/BePrepared_Vol_1_No_8.pdf https://www.classb.com/history-of-the-scouts-uniform/ https://www.classb.com/history-of-the-scouts-uniform/      
    • qwazse
      Vintage Uniform Question

      By qwazse · Posted

      @CaptBurgers, welcome to the forums! Any chance you have your dad's handbook? That would contain the guide that boys would follow. Boys Life and Scouter magazines have online magazines that you could also research. As to Eagle pins and knots, try browsing https://www.sageventure.com/history/
    • Cburkhardt
      New LDS Guidelines for BSA recruiting beginning 6/1/19

      By Cburkhardt · Posted

      One does not have to read between the lines of the precisely-worded announcement.  They are severing Scouting from their faith in every meaningful manner and that is their right.  They want their youth to participate in their program, and will not overtly encourage Scouting.  With that will be a discontinuation of support and the faith’s dominant presence in the operational and policy-making committees of our organization.  We will no longer need to be concerned that our decisions will run afoul of the preferences of the faith’s leadership.  I thank them for their past interest in the BSA and wish them well.  We will be fine as an organization

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