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Wow, a lot is happening this week. I finally have completed all my merit badges which means all I need is to meet with my SM before scheduling with my district! As many know, I did my project in September 2017. I finished Cycling this weekend, I did the mountain biking portion and did the 22 Miles.

The sounds about right. The number of times I have to explain to our Scouts that is a neckerchief not a womans neck scarf and should be rolled neatly as you describe not be shoved through a woggle (slide) without rolling which ends up looking a bit like a napkin worn around your neck with a napkin ring.

Haha. I did it at an Adult day care center, I found it by doing clinical there. I put stone around the building, rebuilt two moving carts (I made the base out of trek wood), built a horse shoe pit, & some small stuff.

I know. I was quoting another poster. The quoting in older posts no longer appears on the screen correctly. I was actually pointing out that Oscar de la Hoya was a boxer.

Why is the pack waiting until they are in 5th grade to prepare Crossing Over into Boy Scouts? WeBeLoS stands for 'We'll Be Loyal Scouts, and they should begin preparing for Boy Scouts as soon as they become a Webelos, not waiting until after they earn the Webelos Badge. The dens and packs that I have seen with good retention rates of Crossovers staying in Scouting, are those that prepare the Cub Scouts as soon as they become Webelos, and sometimes sooner. So I love the 18 month Webelos/AOL program when it is done properly because it works better than the old 3 year program that I went thr

I am now a Brotherhood member of the Order of the Arrow

No. It's so dry even an electrical spark is enough there. Use manual hand tools, OR be prepared to put out any accidental fires you start.

I think they would look more "squared away" if they were all wearing matching footwear. With different colored sneakers, it doesn't look that good.

I agree. We say the Lord's Prayer every week at mass. Is that redundant? Maybe so. But religion isn't supposed to be a "one and done" type of activity. It's a 24/7 thing.

I don’t understand, duty to god is our values. How is that redundant? Barry

Brian, congratulations! I have enjoyed reading about your journey to Eagle. For me it's been a refreshing antidote to the gloom and doom on the forum. Keep up the good work!

Why not share my adventure to eagle? I’m sure it’s entertaining to some.

unless you remove the scout emblem from the pocket. Then it's just another jacket. signed. a rebellious Redcoat

I have read this whole thread and I must admit from my position as a UK Leader I find the number of professionals involved in BSA very surprising and quite baffling as to what they all do. In the UK The Scout Association employs relatively few people directly, almost all based at our national HQ or at HQ owned activity centres. Most Scout Counties employ 1 or two people for administrative support and if the County own a large enough campsite or activity centre they may employ staff to run these. However for the most part UK Scouting is volunteer led and the volunteers are in charge of any

Ok, I just have to comment on this one as the misunderstanding and misinterpretation of Adult Association" is a pet peeve of mine. I am tired of people claiming that for a unit to be "youth-led" adults can never speak, never suggest ideas, and just watch for spurting blood. "Youth-led" does not mean "adult-abdicated". As adults we are to be role models and mentors, as well as friends and as they grow we become colleagues. The scouts do not reach their full potential in either case. As I see it, the REAL problem with the method of "Adult Association" is how few scouters know how t

Well, we Scouters have a quaint habit of making complex the simple....and to our credit, can do the reverse. There is a certain class of folks that have been aptly named over the course of time, "Uniform Police." I suggest trying to avoid that lot! 😆

What does the DRP have to do with the lifting of the ban on gay scouts? No everyone that is religious and believes in God agreed with the policy on banning gay scouts or that the DRP justified a ban on gay scouts. The BSA started getting in to trouble not because they had a DRP and a Scout Law that said a Scout is Reverent but because they bowed to some religions interpretation of the Bible and the DRP while ignoring other religions interpretations. In essence, they were violating the Scout Law by letting some heavy hitters make the decision of what it meant instead of pointing out that

My breaking point happened 10+ years ago when My wife, who volunteered on our crew's committee, came home from a youth protection class where a fellow student tossed out the, "I thought we had Girl Scouts for girls." One scouter told me I was wrecking the program (promoting venturing) when in fact I was giving our boys more hiking/camping hours. Adults blew smoke over local adult-contrived boundaries that youth rightly found to bIe stupid Yet on each adventure, in a dozen different ways each time, I reaped youths' smiles. I broke. I did. I broke in favor of as many