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  1. In answer to the original question: What would you do ... I would look for a different Troop to support. Go to Roundtable or go looking. If you want, you can support District as a member at large or on Commissioner Staff (UC/RTC/...) You can NOT save the Troop without the support. It is a losing battle. You can NOT force change even as a UC for the Troop (if you volunteer, don't be UC for this Troop it will only cause more strife) you can only make observations/reccomendations and you have already acknowledged that they don't want to change they only want to see what's available a
  2. twocub, Seems like that means I am supposed to be buying my own awards too? Not much of an award if you work for it, pay for the training, get nominated, and then have to pay for it also... just my $0.02 Rick
  3. Well, I had the "privelage" to staff Wood-Badge this past year. The cost in cash was about $100 for staff. Not counted was the time off from work. As this course was a two weekender course that would be a Fri and a Mon off... Oooops forgot that staff has to get there early so need Thursday off and getting home very late on Monday night so need Tuesday to recuperate. Four days times 8 hours is 32 hours (almost a weeks pay) at even $12 an hour equals $384. Now add that the training is two plus hours away in the mountains and you have gas at over $2 per gallon. Don't forget to add th
  4. vcrew66, As a former DAC & MBC Trainer, I am going to make some assumptions here. 1. Your approval was by the DAC or CAC. 2. You have attended the MBC Councilors Training. That being said, in the MBC Training Course it tells you that the MBC may train thier own relatives and that "groups may be instructed but Scouts must be tested individually". Individual Councils and Districts, as well as Troops, have made thier own rules (such as number of merit badges that a MBC may teach, teaching relatives,...) but the National standard is what I teach by. I agree that i
  5. Thanks guys.... I was feeling old.... I was 4 yrs 7 days at that time. Guess I still have a lot more life and Scouting to look forward to... Rick(This message has been edited by ghermanno)
  6. Hi... Started BS in Fitchburg, MA (2nd class Scout), moved to CA where I joined LAPD Explorers (until 1977), Started Adult Leader in 1978 (SA/CA), moved to CT (DL/ADL/WL/CM/MC), got out for about 5 years, Moved to Bay area CA (WL/CSDC-PD), moved to Panama, RP (MC/RTC/SA), moved to OR (SA), moved to Dallas area (didn't want a Yankee), moved to Korea (RTC/MC), moved to El Paso, TX (DAC/DOC*/RTC/UC/MC at large). *not sure if DOC is proper for District Outdoor Chair Rick
  7. Hi... Started BS in Fitchburg, MA (2nd class Scout), moved to CA where I joined LAPD Explorers (until 1977), Started Adult Leader in 1978 (SA/CA), moved to CT (DL/ADL/WL/CM/MC), got out for about 5 years, Moved to Bay area CA (WL/CSDC-PD), moved to Panama, RP (MC/RTC/SA), moved to OR (SA), moved to Dallas area (didn't want a Yankee), moved to Korea (RTC/MC), moved to El Paso, TX (DAC/DOC*/RTC/UC/MC at large). *not sure if DOC is proper for District Outdoor Chair Rick
  8. Hi... Started BS in Fitchburg, MA (2nd class Scout), moved to CA where I joined LAPD Explorers (until 1977), Started Adult Leader in 1978 (SA/CA), moved to CT (DL/ADL/WL/CM/MC), got out for about 5 years, Moved to Bay area CA (WL/CSDC-PD), moved to Panama, RP (MC/RTC/SA), moved to OR (SA), moved to Dallas area (didn't want a Yankee), moved to Korea (RTC/MC), moved to El Paso, TX (DAC/DOC*/RTC/UC/MC at large). *not sure if DOC is proper for District Outdoor Chair Rick
  9. Well.... About 10 - 20 years ago when I was in my 30's, I took a Troop camping in the jungle in Panama (RP). We used hammocks and wahtever bug spray they wanted. I used none and had no problems. Others used plenty and had plenty. Never tried the ones with the covers but you could rig a rope and use a ground cloth for it if you wanted. Just my $0.02. Rick
  10. Hi Guys, Same subject Different DE. Thought we had a decent chance with this DE as he was new... District Comittee "consisting of about 4 Scouters" came up sith a plan for recruiting. Doing massive "area" recruiting (kinda like mini Scout Shows) on the same day. A few weeks later the DE told us that Council had decided otherwise and that they wanted to run thiers first. They have recruited quite a few new Packs and Troops. Unfortunately, the 2 UC's for the District (one active) that they have can NOT cover a whole District. They don't care about that, they will take care of tha
  11. Hmmm.... (remembering) Shell "Answer Man". Three gas choices "Regular" "Super" & "Eythl" (sp?) Computers... Everybody had thier own DOS, "high speed "birpie" tape readers (paper tape with holes), card puches and readers (I maintained both), Nixie tubes and vacuum areas on the magnetic tape readers for the cp-818 computers, adjusting current for the memory cores.... Tube radios... Reparing both radios and tape recorder/players (real - real) that had tubes to operate. (plate/grid/heater) Art Linkletter on tv with Uncle Milti (Milton Bearle), Abot and Costello, Drive-i
  12. Thomas54, I am also a UC. Not registered in any Unit in the District. My understanding of your posting is that your affiliated Pack has a UC that is steering boys into another Troop. Is the UC registered in the Pack? Do you have a working relationship with the Webelos Leaders and the Cubmaster? If you are not actively recruiting from the Pack, don't think that they are going to hand the boys over just because the number match. Become active with the Pack, invite on outings, show the boys that your boys are having fun too. My job as UC is to help the Packs/Troop
  13. Welcome Brother. YiS, Rick
  14. SctDad, I am sorry to hear about the state of the Resident camp in your area. That needs to be addressed by the Council in charge of the event. I have heard of camps being short of food (ussually a BS Camp due to finances) but planning should have been done MONTHS ago. Everyone should have had training and schedules BEFORE the camp opened. The Program Director (PD) not the Camp Director (CD) controls the Program and scheduling of events. If the PD did not know this, I wonder if (s)he went to BSA Camp school for the position. As to there only being one "staff" member at a
  15. It is a "Camp-in" so... Fake campfire...check Campfire skits/songs..... check BBQ set-up outside for breakfast (adult use only for gas griddle & stoves, can be used for supper as well [dogs & burgers])... Check OUTDOOR games (to assist tiring youth before bed)... check Active indoor game (for inclimant weather)... check reflective/glow in the dark items (for night search INDOORS with flashlights)... check Buddy system to ensure campers do not wander OUTSIDE after dark alone... check Thermos FULL of black coffee and bottle of asprin nearby for
  16. Here in the District I serve, the last combined Commissioners/District Committee meeting was held to discuss membership. There were approximately 7 people at the meeting and that included the DE and the Council Chairman. We supposedly have about 20 UC's but only two showed up and one, when asked what units he was a UC for said "I'm a UC?" YiS, Rick
  17. Wow!! As an 8 year old, I was facinated with "Old Ironsides" and even toured Bunkler Hill Monument. There is also Salem, Cape Cod, Mayflower, .... So much history in MA (don't forget the fishing villages along the highway going towards NH). You could try any of the battlefields in Concord or off Route 2 between Fitchburg and Boston (closer to NH). Haven't been there in years but took the wife there last time I visited home. They may allow overnight (ghost included at no cost). No sure why you want "overnight" vice "day trips" but it's your show. Yes, I live in TX but I
  18. While I have not had the occasion to communicate with that section of the BSA office, I will say that whenever I have had problems with National, my SE will follow-up with an email. He feels the Volunteers have enough on thier plate that National can at least handle/respond. Maybe you should try your SE with your proposed changes and let him/her know what you have done to correct this on your own. I would like to say that National cares, and I think they do, but they are a conglomeration like Shell oil or NorthropGrumman. They need us to function but do not normally deal with u
  19. bnelon44, Maybe I read your post incorrectly but did you really state that you do NOT use the MB Pamphlet for MB's that you mentor? If not, what guidance do you use to ensure "standard" testing and requirements for the Merit Badges? Just curious as these are the responsabilities of the MBC's. As are sending in corrections to National and hoping they will change things. My $0.02 Rick
  20. (LOL) I had to chuckle at the "Gang" reference. I thought I was one of the few that used that term for Scouting. When I was a youth in my teen (mid 70's) I was in Law Enforcement Explorer Scouting. People at my high school would ask if I wanted to join a gang (get jumped in) and I would tell them I allready belong to a gang, L.A.P.D. and they would leave me alone. What you describe is the "Rockwell picture" for what Scouting says it is vice what the people see. My $0.02 YiS, Rick
  21. SeattlePioneer, Why are Cubs building pioneering projects? I can understand a Troop or Crew building the bridge and the Cubs using it with supervision, but I am perplexed as to why the Cubs would be building it. Call me "old fasioned" but I thought the programs had different purposes. My $0.02. Rick
  22. I fondly remember back to when I was a LAPD Explorer. We had a precision drill team. Let me tell you that ALL Explorers in the post were familiar with basic drill manuvers but the Drill Team was the one that performed in parades and such. It was GREAT. As far as a normal Troop, I see no problem with basic Drill (Ranks, dress, facing movements, even basic marching). The trick is to teach the SPL to teach the boys and not make it the whole of the meeting. I do see a problem if the PLC does NOT want it. Here again, it is boy led. I would NOT try to train a Pack in formation mo
  23. SeattlePioneer, I am ssuming this is a Boy Scout camp (as opposed to WEBELOS) but the task are basically simular. Visit the camsites with the leaders, see if there is anything they need, ask for comments about the camp (as in how to improve), and tell them where/how to find you if they need anything. That, in a perfect world would be it. You may be called upon for some resource guidance, YPT, why "Timmy" can NOT take this or that specific Merit Badge, camp cleanliness, LNT basics, noise,.... Hopefully not. I said WEBELOS as I was a Commisioner at a WEBELOS camp years ag
  24. Welcome! Pull up a log at the virtual campfire. Lots of different people and views here, all are welcome. Rick
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