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How do I know how many times the TF was warned? I might have seen him once passing by my hammock whittling recklessly ... told him to behave. He says "yes sir" ... and puts on his best behavior ... while he thinks I'm watching. On the way from his patrol site, the SPL may have seen him horsing around with his buddy, knife in hand ... told him to behave. He said "yes sir" ... waited till SPL continued rounds to next patrol. At his patrol campfire, the PL may seen him ... told him to behave. He said "yes sir" ... then took his buddy on a walk away from his patrol site. By

You sir are correct. Here is a link to the marketing group photos. http://tidewaterbsa.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/ Scout with glasses original photo. Another Scout in above photo shoot.

@qwazse It's difficult to tell with only a partial side view, but I think it might be the Cascade Pacific Council patch.

"If people are doubting how far you can go, go so far you can't hear them anymore." - Michele Ruiz

Right, because heaven forbid everybody should know what is going on. (That is directed at National, not you.)

@Hawkwin, this is not about feeling like being a bully, or a savior. It is about assuring that the scouts with cutting implements are sufficiently disciplined to wield them. Can it get out of hand? Sure! But you're weighing a possibility of feeling hazed against the probability of harm to life or limb. Handing a kid a partly-colored buddy-tag possibly could be bullying, but pales in comparison to the probability of drowning. Neither buddy tags or Totin Chip teach anything per se. But both inform scouts something about themselves and each other. In the process, they enable scouts

Now if only they hadn't watered down the requirements, the name "Camper" would still work.

We tend to whip our ropes

Corporal punishment of a card? I once saw an egregious example of corporal punishment of a rope. They gave it a real lashing.

https://www.scoutshop.org/totin-chip-pocket-certificate-single-34397.html $0.19 each What I find hilarious is that it is now a restricted item requiring paperwork

imo, treating the taking of a corner of a totin chip card, or asking a group "who's item is this" (where there is no name on it) and the person's who's item it is comes up and gets their lost item (no idea who put words in my mouth about singing or dancing, but I was clearly stating the simple act of asking the group who's item something was so that they could come up and get their gear back is now considered hazing) diminishes the seriousness of actual dehumanizing hazing to the point wolf has been cried so often, no one will care. We are seeing this very thing played out with other social i

One of our new scouts thought KP and the 3 pot method was hazing. The SPL looked at him and said work is not hazing, if they did decide to haze him it would involve a good bit of orientation and training his part, you can't expect to fully appreciate hazing unless you have been properly trained. The SPL has a future in corporate America

We have a current boy scout that wears a beret like this. It has sentimental value for him.

Can we do this in time for World Jambo! I think this would be Arrow of Light or whatever terrible name for Webelos II there is now.