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  1. Mo' Chaplain Stuff: Setting a Fire Correctly

    By SSScout,
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  2. Francis Scott Key

    By fgoodwin,
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  3. Nice short quote

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  4. Very Short Scoutmaster Minutes. 1 2 3 4 6

    By Bob White,
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  5. Close to the Edge

    By oldsm,
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  6. Building Character

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  7. My Country, 'Tis of Thee: The Story Behind the Song

    By fgoodwin,
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  8. The Uniform

    By Trevorum,
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  9. Within my power

    By fgoodwin,
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  10. leadership

    By ASM59,
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  11. Shades of gray

    By mk9750,
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  12. The Bird

    By FScouter,
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  13. Sportsmanship

    By Eamonn,
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  14. Boy led troop? Scout's minute?

    By johndaigler,
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  15. What's Important

    By gwd-scouter,
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    • 5thGenTexan
      Concerns for BSA's Future

      By 5thGenTexan · Posted

      I figured NAM was a scaled down version of a Roundtable when the Council Key 3 come and cherry pick some numbers and stats and explain to us how great things are.
    • UKScouterInCA
      National Medal for Outdoor Achievement

      By UKScouterInCA · Posted

      Our Scout Shop told us that National had pulled back all remaining supplies and destroyed them. Not sure if that is true.   It's an absolute shame if they discontinue this award, the achievements a Scout needs to get to earn it are absolutely core to the mission of Scouting. I would way prefer to see a Scout earn this than every merit badge.
    • UKScouterInCA
      Four Peaks Medals

      By UKScouterInCA · Posted

      Talking about janky cheap medals in an earlier thread, this medal is most certainly not!! We just had 2 adults and 2 scouts earn this beauty! The thing is weighty! To earn this the Scouts (and Adults) had to earn 4 separate local High Adventure Awards. As part of that they had to complete:   A 2 (or more) backpack to the summit of Mt San Gorgonio (11,503 ft) A 2 (or more) backpack to the summit of Mt San Bernardino (10.649 ft) A 2 (or more) backpack to the summit of Mt San Jacinto (10,834 ft) A day hike to the summit of Mt Antonio (aka Mt Baldy) (10,064 ft)   Not too shabby!  
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    • UKScouterInCA
      National Medal for Outdoor Achievement being discontinued?

      By UKScouterInCA · Posted

      Does anyone here know what National is doing with the National Medal for Outdoor Achievement? https://www.scouting.org/programs/scouts-bsa/advancement-and-awards/noa/ The medals have been removed from Scout Stores and supposedly all collected by National and destroyed. The medal itself is a janky piece of junk, so flimsy and lame. But the level achievement you need to reach to earn it is super impressive. I for one think it would be an absolute shame if National discontinued this medal. And doing so without any comment period, skulking away in the dead of night, seems super shady. I kind of understand them discontinuing other awards like the NOVA Stem, although I thought they were fun they were always a little like National were jumping on the STEM bandwagon. But OUtdoor Achievement? That is front and center our Core Mission.   Maybe I can dare to hope that National have realised that the medal is cheap and tawdry and not worth of representing the accomplishments, , and decided to replace it with something more worthy of the incredible achievement the Scouts have made to earn it. Yeah, I doubt it.  

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