eaglescout1996

If you council is only charging $1000 to attend as a participant, then the "extra" $150 you are paying would pay for transportation, insurance, (most likely) Jambo Troop t-shirts, council strips and numbers, patrol patches, and whatever other small items they would provide.

The Scouters I've spoken thought AC5 was "better" run/organized. As I said before, I did not attend AC5, so I can not compare. The OA is doing wonderful things this summer. Things like this, OA Trail Crew, NCLS, and Indian Summer weren't around when I was a youth 15+ years ago. If they had, I would have been WAY more active as an Arrowman as I got later in my youth. My lodge was very political and National programs would have kept my attention!

I just realized the links don't work, if you click on them, you can figure out what you need to do in bar on you browser. Sorry!

I attended week 2 with 9 other members of my lodge, we got back Saturday night and I just haven't got around to creating a post. Week 2 completed close to 30,000 feet of trail that week, plus other projects for the NPS around their headquarters and Thurmond Train Depot. The first three full days we were there (Mon-Wed) were HOT. Even those of us from the deep south were not expecting that type of weather in WV. The Park Service staff said that those were the hottest days of the year so far. By Friday, temps were more "normal" for WV standards, high of low 80's, low of upper 50's.

What number? When I was living in Germany from '89-93, we still using the fully embroidered red numbers, as that's what was in the Scout Shop....I might have what you need lying around.

Not to get off topic, but my wife, who has district and council committee positions, prefers wearing the green/grey uniform over the tan/green one.

Thanks for the head's up. I tried to get on about 8:45am EST and the site was down.

Aye!

In the other thread it was mentioned replacing Commissioner Service with some sort of swap system, where you would visit other units. I like the idea, but it's hard to get units to send representation to RT...so I don't see them going to visit other units. The problem just seems to perpetuate itself...we don't have enough UCs, which can't make visits, which can't help units, which fail. But it even works the other way around, we recruit (or sometimes can't) committee members, who don't go to training, who don't understand their jobs, who can't help their unit, which fail. BP is rig

I'm sticking this here since it's come up in a few threads, MODs, feel free to move it to Council Relations if you see the need. I am a Commissioner and besides being an Assistant Chapter Advisor and an ASM (when I was in college), it's the only adult position I have held in the 10+ years I've been a scouter. I really think that the commissioners who are out there making visits, contacting leaders, and attending RT, are being effective. But we can only do so much with the numbers we have....close to every district in every council could use more ACTIVE COMMISSIONERS (my emphasis, no

'72- Thanks for the suggestion. I was originaly recruited to be a UC in Central Florida Council about 7 years ago (in the old Canaveral District). I was just out of grad school, hadn't been really involved in Scouting for about 6 years and I was given 4 units. I really like your idea and hopefully it can work for us.

Our Council Commissioner announced last night that our council is taking part in a pilot program which will evaluate changes to chartering new units (I think he mentioned 30 councils). From now on we will not charter a new unit unless it meets the following criteria: Chartered Organization is identified, a minimum of 10 youth to join the unit, a minimum of 5 adults to join the unit, an assigned experienced Unit Commissioner, Key three identified and on board (Unit Leader, CC, and COR). He also mentioned that the Unit Commissioner assignment would last through at least 2 recharter cycles befo

The old Camp Freedom was great, good program, and I'm sure people still talk about the lecture you would get that if you were walking to the pool and walked through the farmer's field you'd pay a huge fine. I don't think anyone really thought it would happen, but we wouldn't have done it any way. Or Gizmo, the little stick that got passed around by sneaking it into people's back pockets and it you got caught with it at the dinning hall, the staff would make you do something in front of everyone. I had to sing "I'm a little Tea Pot" with the motions...but I guess now a days you can't do that

We lived in Augsburg from 1980-1984 and then in Mannheim from 1989-1993. I was in Troop 527 in Mannheim, which I believe doesn't exist anymore, but 1993 was our 25th Anniversary and was sponsored by my father's BN, who was the COR and CC (there was also Troop 17 which was LDS and Troop 27 on post). One of my fellow Staffers at Jambo is a DoD civilian and Army Reserve Officer in Stuttgart had mentioned a lot of the stuff the US Military provided back in the day, can't anymore. I attended Camp Baden-Powell in 1989, the original Camp Freedom in 1990, Camp Bayern in 1991, and in 1992 we w

I did witness a fist fight in another patrol. I never found out what exactly happened and the course director only said that night that a participant was "removed" from the course. As far as my patrol...it was basically "formed" when I got there. Four of the six patrol members were from the same LDS Stake and of course had known each other for quite a while. If you have any influence in your course, please make sure it is as diverse as possible. My course director was LDS and when he started to promote the course he went to the Stakes first and I'd say the course was about 50-60% perc

I am now able to use both chest pockets on my uniforms. As a youth though, my rank patch was sewn through and I always had a temp patch sewn on my right pocket. The round TAC patch and segments when we were in Germany and after we moved back to the states, the World Conservation Award. I don't think any youth actually use their chest pockets since they're not used to wearing shirts with pockets.

I purchased the shirt about 6 months ago. My 100% cotton ODL shirt is starting to look really worn, so I decided to pick up the poly/wool. It was before they took it off the website, so it could have changed. The label reads as follows: 68% Polyester, 14% Rayon, 18% Wool Machine Wash Warm with Like Colors Only non-chlorine bleach when needed Tumble Dry Warm Warm Iron if needed Not intended for Industrial Laundry Use Made in Bangladesh The ODL poly/wool on the other hand reads: 80% Polyester, 20% Wool Machine Wash Do not use Bleach Dark Color Wash Se

This past weekend was one of our Lodge inductions and I drove back three new Arrowmen. The conversation came to uniforms as a couple of them mentioned that they wanted to wait to sew on their new lodge flaps as they were going to get new uniforms very soon, as they ODLs they were wearing they'd had since they were WEBELOS. All three of them mentioned that they didn't like the new uniforms with the tech pockets. They were from a "traditional" troop, which does a ton of camping, backpacking, high adventure trips, and heading to Philmont this summer. In my personal opinion, the tech poc

I like the new shirt. The placket of the shirt is made like a traditional dress shirt, unlike the ODL shirts where the fabric is just folded over and the buttons and button holes are just sewn through. I believe the other new shirts are like that as well. I don't remember if it was mentioned here, but the do have buttons instead of velcro. The buttons are just on the backside of the pocket flap and go through the pocket so they're hidden instead of the ODL shirts. As mentioned, they have a traditional flag patch and the BSA strip is sewn on. For what ever reason, they are a darker co

I have the new poly/wool shirt, along with a poly/wool ODL. Both are actually not Dry Clean Only, they can be laundered. The pants on the other hand, I believe are. I wash them with like items and maybe every 3rd time or so, I dry clean. They haven't shrunk, but from constant use, the ODL is starting to show wear (it's almost 20 years old). The material under the arms is starting to separate next to the stitching...it's stayed intact, the material is starting to come apart. I guess I could always turn it to get another new version, but I really like the ODL poly/wool. I'll probably

If you really like HA and want to be able to provide some skills in that area to you Troop, why not try and see if there is a Powder Horn course coming up near by? Take that knowledge, apply it to the Troop, and when you want to take WB you can take that focus and marry the two together. If you really want to concentrate on HA, I'd say Powder Horn maybe more up your alley.

I just sent you a PM so you know what you are looking for...there are a bunch out there.

You can either cut out the collar on a current shirt and sew it back up...or you can search ebay for a vintage Scout shirt. I saw a few not long ago, good condition sans collar.

Thanks for the heads up. I didn't know any better and took their word. I should just take them into my seamstress and have them hemmed. The only thing is, I only have one 100% cotton shirt and I have some weird adverson to wearing different fabric uniform parts together. With two pairs of pants and only one shirt, the pants won't get worn that often. I've been scouring eBay and other avenues for a NOS 100% cotton shirt, but I haven't found a thing.

It all depends on the Scout Shop. I have taken back things in which they required that I get the same product, other times they let me get a similar product. I once had the fabric compltetly come apart on a pair of BSA Cotton slacks that I had only worn twice since getting them hemmed. (like the poly/wools but cotton, they aren't made anymore), they insisted that I get the same pair. The reason was probably that they knew they were being discontinued. I still have the pair and they haven't been hemmed yet, still hanging in my closet. Good luck, I have two poly/wool shirts (one ODL