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We get that a lot! The place is vast. But, the black rasberries are in, and it's worth hiking some distance to the sweeter ones. @Sentinel947's scout who works as an EMT at one of the basecamps said that they are out of crutches. But "jamboree" is no joke! The sounds of songs and games and laughter and swapping tales all night are continuous. For my part I calmly go about my day letting everyone know that the best coffee on SBR is at my site. I also mortifying Brits, one site an evening, by demonstrating how to make sun tea in a clear bottle. I get rave reviews: "Is t

Visiting WSJ was a great time! It was the first time I've visited the Summit, and I was able to forget about the debt and it being a financial albatross for a few hours. As a visitor to WSJ it's hard to meet any of the foreign scouts/scouters because they all have activities and such to do. Still the international exhibits were really cool. I had some Francesinha from the Portuguese food tent. It was fattening and so tasty. Met a few scouts and scouters from my council, a few on purpose and a few on accident! Met with @qwazse which as he told his scouts: "I'm off to go meet some stranger from

One of mine sent me some photos of New York where most of the UK Contingent went for a day or so pre-Jamboree. It looked New Yorkey, and like they were having fun. The bits of the opening ceremony I saw were pretty impressive! Not just the drone show but mainly the 45,000 scouts from 150+ countries all together. The flags and the joy and the enthusiasm, all rather uplifting. Then I saw a picture showing how big the place is, one of the three Surrey Unit's site in the photo, and the other unit by some distant tower near the horizon in the photo, and the other apparently an hour's walk

Our troop, that does not currently have an adopted neckerchief, is considering adopting a troop neckerchief. Neckerchiefs, at least to me, are a great Scout uniform tradition. Scout units that wear them really look sharp. Back when I was a Scout, the neckerchief was required with the official uniform in our troop. We wor a red neckerchief with yellow edge bands and BSA logo. I still have mine. BTW - before there a a bunch of comments on what is official, etc. There is nearly a full page of information in the Insignia Guide 2003-2005 on pages 6-7 that details what is authorized and h

My son and daughter at there, in Delta 3. My son had the Francesinha and really wants to make it at home. Both are having a great time meeting peoplpe, trying new food and taking it all in.

I met @Sentinel947 at Summit Central yesterday after my nap. (Oh the life of a contingent leader.) We just sat on a shady spot in the lawn and watched the variety of uniforms (mostly activity uniforms) come up the sidewalk. We then hit the trading post. Surprisingly, it was not terribly crowded.

I have had different systems over the years. Troop 1) had troop necker, boys all required to wear it. Honor patrol had their own necker and wore them while doing patrol activities or activities as a patrol, i.e. camporee competitions, etc. Troop 2) had troop necker, boys could wear that or any other earned necker they wished at any time. Troop 3) has troop/patrol neckers (All blaze orange with patrol color trim around the edges) are encouraged to wear them at all times. As SM I wear the troop blaze orange with white trim, my centennial jamboree at time, my WB necker, at times, and

It depends on what they are doing and what your troop's position is on neckerchiefs. Most units allow Eagles to wear their blue neckers, while the other Scouts wear the troop neckers. Some troops want all Scouts to wear their troop necker when they are doing something as a troop, such as an event or going to camporee, high adventure or travelling elsewhere. I'd have your Scout check with his Patrol Leader or SPL. They can advise him best on what your troop does.

Neckers don't need to match, unless you are participating in a parade or flag ceremony, then it would be nice. "Back in the day", it was common for a patch/necker/mug/Tshirt combination would be produced for every district/council event including summer camp and OA. It was nice to be able to purchase the set with the same design on it. I almost never wore my "official" BSA troop colors necker. It was a matter of pride to be able to show where you've been and what you'd accomplished.

The BSA-sold triangular neckerchief was made larger a few years ago. Our Scout Shop still has a couple of the older, smaller size in the Clearance section. It had been the same, tiny size when I got back in Scouting in 1981 until the up-sizing.

'Skip, Long story short, in 1972 BSA made neckers an option with Boy Scout troops under themess that was the "Improved Scouting Program." Troops not only could decide which necker to wear, but also how to wear a necker, and if they wanted to wear one at all. I am going to assume (and you know what can happen when you do that ), that 1972 was also when the BSA went from properly sized neckers, to all neckers being CS sized. I know the CS sized neckers looked funny on those that did wear them still, and glad my troop used a custom made one. SO that may be one reason why many troop

I can't comment on the BSA rules (obviously) but I would say go for it. As SSScout says it is the only universal bit of uniform across the world. Anywhere you go if you see a group of kids with neckers on you think "scout". In the UK the kids love them and get quite tribal about them. In any given district each group has their own design which varies massively. Some are one colour, some have a boarder, some are half and half, some are tartan. Back in my day as a venture scout my unit drew from 4 different scout troops. While it had its own design we used to cut the point of the necker fro

The necker is the ONLY consistently Scout uniform item around the world. Scouts trade them at World Jamborees. If the Troop can't afford a "real" uniform, often you will see a colorful t-shirt with the necker. I find the proviso in the above quote about ".... worn only with the official uniform and never with T-shirts or civilian clothing. " to be wrong minded. Often, at award ceremonies, the awardee is given a necker that is draped around and over his civie suited self. And, I have seen a Troop running around (!) in "class bs" and a necker at service projects..... What's sad is th

Stosh, I think that sounds like a great idea. We have solid color neckers with Troop logo, SPLs have contrasting. (Same necker, opposing color/trim). As far as I ever knew, it doesn't matter one little bit what your Troop decides.

from the same post "Uniformity when wearing the Neckerchief is important. Everyone in the Troop should wear them the same way." AND "We wear it under the shirt Collar, a few of the old rocking chair patrol (adults) wear them over their collar." It just sorta caught my eye. If uniformity is so important, why do some adult leaders in the troop not follow the rule and help support the decision. And, if they can be different are the scouts allowed to ignore things and be given a pass as well? Just curious. BW

We use a stock neckerchief that is given the scouts when they reach First Class. It is worn for COHs and special events. The scouts choose to wear it under an open collar. Other times the scouts can wear any neckerchief of their choice, or none. They may wear any slide they wish with any neckerchief. Bob

Our troop has voted on black (custom made) neckerchiefs that we have embroidered with the BSA logo on back (we needed a written statement for the person that does our embroidering that we were not infringing on a copyrighted symbol and had permission to use it!) and it has our troop number and city (gold lettering) on back too. The black background makes the gold BSA logo show up really nice. Besides, Black & Gold were my high school and college colors! (Hey, the color scheme was picked before my family was involved with the troop.) Do all wear it? They should but we usually get 9