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Apparently our commander in chief just said flag burning is illegal. He said when people burn flags other people "go crazy" and start riots and lots of people die and it goes on all across the country and even the world! Any idea how this works with the flag code? Or even the fact that the executive branch can't make laws? Maybe someone needs to take the Cit in the Nation MB. It just drives me crazy when the fundamentals of the flag code are misunderstood and now this, from our elected leader. So after said leader spewed word salad saying it was now illegal some other guy said that the DOJ would investigate any flag burning and "where there's evidence of criminal activity [and] where prosecution wouldn't fall afoul of first amendment rights ... " then the DOJ should prosecute. Ummmm, what? Sounds like an executive order written to mollify exactly one person. So I guess if you peacefully burn a flag in protest then it's okay? I think I might go burn a flag, not in protest but rather to retire it with dignity. But if it doesn't involve first amendment rights then it's illegal, no? Oh wait, at the same time that this executive order was signed another was signed, directing the DoD to take a larger role in "quelling civil disturbances." Probably all those scouts retiring flags. Maybe this was all just an AI hallucination. -
Maybe ... but something to think about. We're (my town) in a weird situation where the biggest female troop in our district is in the town over and almost every female scout is from my town and not that town. The DE is structurally blocking new linked and coed troops to keep the existing female troops healthy. In addition to those female scouts we're losing the brothers to that troop as well (parents don't want to drive to 2 different places on the same nights). That troop is 1 of 3 linked/coed troops; because of geography it's sort of the only game in town and sucking the air out of the room because of that. That troop is so large that it churns through crossovers and survives on gravitational affect alone. I think, and I have told my commissioner and DE the following: Once my towns troops have the ability to provide the program to female scouts it might kill that other towns mega troop. It's an upsetting discussion for them. As of right now the '26 crossover cohort in my town is female heavy; so is the '27 cohort. If the local troops are allowed to go coed in December the neighboring town (based on discussion with the crossover parents) will lose out on 10-40 scouts over the next 24 months. That's pretty much immediate affect in this program. -
In my opinion it becomes a situation where the PLC is told that the program includes those items that they hate, they have to do them at least once in every 18 month period. The PLC gets told that they have an obligation to run the program and ensure that the younger and newer scouts get a chance to advance. Not running the program is what kills troops, every time. When the district committee does a postmortem on a unit that surrenders it's charter it is literally the exact same thing every time: Not running the program, which leads to scouts not advancing, which leads to them quitting or transferring out, which leads to structural imbalance in age distribution, which becomes a red flag to crossover families, whom then go somewhere else. Think of it this way, the PLC is the management but the scouters are the board of directors.
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Use the method of adult association via scoutmaster conferences to help the youth leaders achieve scouting's aim of making ethical choices within their programming decisions. -
By RememberSchiff · Posted
Santa Barbara–based troop, Troop 26, was on the fourth day of a seven-day backpacking trip through the Emigrant Wilderness in the Stanislaus National Forest that borders Yosemite National Park. Nine young scouts were accompanied by five adult leaders. They were trekking with their 40-pound packs through a high-altitude meadow near Long Lake when they came upon a lone, disoriented 78 year old outdoorsman Douglas Montgomery. He was on a solo 14-day backpacking trip but lost his pack and with it his shelter, food, water, medication, and personal locator beacon. He did have his survival training from Scouting, but Eagle Scout Douglas Montgomery was cold, tired, and dehydrated when Troop 26 scouts came to his rescue. There's more at source. Good story with another surprise or two. Source: https://www.independent.com/2025/08/24/santa-barbara-boy-scouts-rescue-former-scoutmaster-lost-in-the-sierra-nevada/ P.S. I can relate to this quote from old Eagle Scout Douglas Montgomery “Backpacking was my first love. But once you learn how to live in the wilderness … and your backpacking skills become more challenged by age, you like stuff where you’re sitting down.” Scout Salute to all in this story.
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