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No point in expecting TRUTH2 or SCOUTER30 to reply. Both of those accounts have been closed by the particular person who wrote the posts.

Well it's been over a month since I posted this. I had to release a little bit of frustration because at the moment, the Scouting I get to experience is online. I'm registered back home as an ASM, but not involved with any troop or crew down here at school. Many of you know me on here. Some know me off of here as well. I have had the opportunity to meet Eamonn in person (dang accent made it hard to understand him:)) and I've had the opportunity to correspond back and forth with mk9750. I think they can both tell you if you can't see it in my posts that I don't care what other people thin

I wear what's commonly called a "Rigger's Belt" that could be used as a rappel harness in an emergency. It's pretty thick webbing and a solid buckle. I got it at the National Jamboree. One of the guys I worked with made them.

It's a great thing to live in America. You can believe whatever you want. If you want to be an atheist, you've got that right! If you want to be a Muslim, go for it! If you want to be Catholic, go right ahead! So why can't people leave others alone? Why must an atheist attack a Christian and why must that Christian attack an atheist? I like that you can be whoever you want to be. I get to believe what I WANT to believe; not what the government TELLS me to believe. Because I like that freedom, I believe others should have the same opportunity. I might not like that this person is athe

Reading Scouter.com, Meritbadge.net, and CollegeConfidential lately Ive found I must know very little about Scouting and its purpose. Im lost as to how that could have happened- Ive been active in the Boy Scouts of America for over 12 years. I wont claim to be genius and I dont believe I know everything there is to know about Scouts. But I didnt realize that becoming an Eagle Scout was the focus or the purpose of the Boy Scouts of America. Did you know that a reason for joining Scouts was directly related to winning scholarships? Or admission to an elite college? What about getting an automati

I''ll tell ya-- I was absolutely worthless.. yep

Why can''t younger son change into Scout pants in the bathroom at the meeting place?

A similar discussion came up at Jamboree talking about being tied in and such. I believe it was brought up something about if you''re any higher than 6 feet off the ground on any kind of tower, etc that you are expected to be belayed or connected safely in some form.

We currently own 20 Timberlines. We have the 4-man Timberline Outfitters. All of them have been bought within the last 3 years. No more than two per tent. Adults have their own normally. These are for normal camping in a regular campsite where they can be pulled right out of the trailer. For backpacking (starting to get there) and for canoeing we just bought 9 backpacking tents. I don''t recall the name at the moment, but we bought these for $100/apiece. So we have a lot of money invested in tents and we take extreme care of them. And yes our Scouts are pretty well expected to u

scoutldr, 50,674 tonite:)

At least MB.net and Scouter.com didn''t go down at the same time! Then a few of us would have been in serious trouble! Good to see it back and running. Thanks Terry!

Our troop always has a surplus as far as I can recall. Our fundraising does fairly well because we offer the incentive that for every Scout who sells $100 of popcorn gets their rechartering all paid for. Otherwise, the troop has annual dues of $16 along with Boys Life and BSA registration. This has allowed us to buy high quality camping equipment. In the last 18 months we have bought 18 Eureka Timberline 4 outfitter tents (retail $230 or so) and 9 2-person backpacking tents ($150 retail I think). Also we have recently obtained a canoe trailer and I would expect to see the troop buy a

My favorite one to take was probably Climbing. I think my favorite to teach would be either First Aid, Climbing, or Wilderness Survival. I didn't finish Wilderness Survival as a youth, but I enjoyed that kind of stuff. I'm going into a healthcare field (athletic training) and enjoy first aid stuff. My least favorite would have to be Family Life. I never did finish that one either but I hated working on it at all! Probably my least favorite to teach would be that.

kenk, I think sometimes Senior Patrol Leaders have that problem too.. Or maybe that's just me... or maybe it was just early symptoms or the Scoutmaster syndrome?

John, I just come in www . scouter . com and it brings me right to the forums. I've only encountered the problem a couple times.

I'd be interested to hear how often you'd replace rope at an event like the National Jamboree. At your rate of 250-300 rappels, you'd have to replace the rope every day for the tower I was working. That said, our director said in the caves that he works (doing some Scouting programs) they replace every 1400 rappels or so. Sure I believe there needs to be some sort of standard... but what?

I can offer a similar experience not from Scouts, but high school football. Had a teammate killed about 13 months ago in a car accident. He was on his way to football. For the wake, we were instructed shirt and tie and to come on our own rather than as a team. Our coach felt this would be best for the parents. For the funeral, we were there in shirt and tie, but we also had our jerseys on over the top of the shirt and tie. Our coach was asked to speak. Tell ya, it was quite an experience there being 200+ people at the funeral I'd guess and about 50 were in football uniforms. He, BTW, was

From your description of him, and my limited experience at Jambo, OJ and I seem very similar.. One reason I'm not a huge fan of reading is all of the required reading that is now our high school English classes. We read Shakespeare every year. And we had other reading we had to do including some summertime stuff. That really turned me off to reading though I still pull out some other stuff now and then. I've gotten away from fiction stuff quite a bit. I prefer non-fiction whether it be Human anatomy, baseball, outdoors, military, West Point by far my favorite subject to read, etc.

We solve the Friday Night ditch by packing up much of the troop and patrol equipment throughout the day on Friday. We are done with most of it by about 12:30PM and camp has pretty well wound down by that point too.

First things that come to mind for me are of course the Scout Handbook (and actually read it!) and the Scout Fieldbook though I like the previous edition better than the newer that I have. Also, any of the Hatchet books. There's Hatchet, Brian's Return, Brian's Winter I believe, and Brian's River I think. Some other suggestions I've got a Basic Essentials: Knots book, a Backpacking book, A Teen's Gameplan by Lou Holtz, and I Dare You by William Danforth.

WWW, I'd have to agree with you about the council and higher should be supporting the troops rather than vice versa.

ManyIrons, Good to hear from ya! I truthfully could not tell you who in all reality picks summer camp year to year. I don't remember having a whole lot of input while I was a youth in the troop. We've talked about camps before and we've talked about high adventure trips before, but it seems to me adults seem to still make the deciding choice.. I know our adult leaders really like Camp Sunnen for the Patrol Method stuff. The cooking, the patrol award things I seem to remember, etc. Typically thet troop starts talking about next year for summer camp near the end of the week at ca

A friend of ours has got a lot of Native American in him, I believe nearly full Cherokee. Somehow we had gotten onto this topic at a graduation party; he said everytime he goes to the airport he gets pulled aside. But he said he's got absolutely no problems with it. He says if they think it's going to "keep America protected" that's fine. This is same guy who in 2003 when the build up for Iraq and the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom was going on, he tried enlisting anywhere he could. They wouldn't let him and he was really disappointed. That was at age 50!

Program? Does working as a patrol not count as program anymore? To me, that's the most important thing and I don't see how the patrol method works in a dining-hall camp.

Here is the article again for anybody who did not see it in the other one.. http://outside.away.com/outside/culture/200707/boy-scouts-1.html The Big Idea Demerit Badge Is Boy Scouts of America doing enough to keep kids safe? By Annette McGivney MY TEN-YEAR-OLD SON, Austin, likes to hike, camp, and climb. He toddled across the Alaskan tundra at age two, hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon at four, and floated the Green River at six. In other words, he's a perfect candidate for the Boy Scouts of America. In some corners of the country it would be considered unpat