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Our Troop really enjoys visiting Eagle Cave in SW WI. No meals to prepare, no duty roster, just getting good-n-dirty crawling through the nooks and crannies and sleeping in a real cave for an overnighter. we also go bicycling on the Sparta-Elroy bike trail in Cent.WI

BW; The discussions we have had so far are very positive ones...no gripefest yet...and as the RTC, I would steer the discussion to solutions and not just belly-achin and sour-grapes. I intend to implement the "will to do" and "skill to do" as well as encourage the fellowship that need to be a part of all Boy Scout Roundtables. I avoid teaching the "how to tie a knot" school of RT thought...I encourage new Scouters to go and take training when its offered for their given position in Scouting. I will include the dates/times/places/contact info for training in my district/council in what I c

Great feedback here ladies and gents! One common thread through many replies is having two way discussions and making time to have them...I started to use this feature in my last years RTs to a greater level of participation.

Eagletrek; I became the BS/RT Comm. as a ticket item (WB C-19-06). I plan to continue as BS/RT Comm. I do enjoy a cuppa joe though...I have had some increased participation with the forum model of comparing notes across the table...seems all attending want to have a turn at what works or dont work and hear how others are doing it. I like the comment re; training newer Scouters...perhaps having an RT just for this purpose would help? I could see having the "veteran" scouters help pull this off. Good feedback, keep it coming. ps...I agree, the "ounce-o-mints"(announcements) could be ju

I serve as the Boy Scout Roundtable commissioner for my district and I am entering my third year of service in that capacity. I would like to hear from members of the forum on what they would want at a Boy Scout Roundtable...feedback is a gift...thank you for listening, I look forward to everyones input.

OGE; Any explanation regarding my inflammatory statement will likely fall short of satisfying the answers your post demands. What I posted was rude, arrogant and un-scoutlike...I would like to offer my apology to any I have offended by my ill-mannered post that equated the Democratic Party as the National Socialists of the present times. I would ask you here OldGreyEagle to please suspend my membership in this forum...its clear I am out of my depth here and dont deserve the priveledge of posting in this forum.

Who should retain the blue card for a partially completed MB? The Scout applying for the MB or the SM or Adv.Chair from the TC?

Its a safe bet the moderators could be Organians...but certainly not Ekosians.

GaHillBilly; Packsaddle got the answer 'fore I could reply, and he's right..we are fortunate to have this forum...back to topic, boy howdy and jeepers palomino, does Sarah ever have 'em checkin their sixes to see if any tail feathers are left...I love the fact we still have a few REAL leaders that arent career politicians...John McCain and Sarah Palin...Change that makes sense!

GaHillBilly; You drew fire by benefit of my post in the now closed thread "GOP sez pregnant at 17 ok" in the issues and politics section. I brought the ire of the moderator down on myself as I posted what amounted to a violation of "Godwins Law". I agree with your post that genocide on an astronomical scale was not the exclusive domain of the German government in power between 1933-1945. Fell free to PM me where we can discuss our views without the PC polezei looking on.

Keeping the originals is at best very unlikely and I see it as unrealistic to expect a Scout to retain all the MB apps he has earned. The Advancement Detail Report I get from our local service center/scout shop shows all the ranks and merit badges a scout has earned and kept on record with council, providing of course, that the advancement reports were/are kept up to date. This is the paperwork we use to check and ensure an Eagle candidate has all his rank and MBs on record for the EBOR and to verify nothings missing.

Well, seeing as I am fresh from my most recent "loss" for my side in the closed topic of pregnant teenagers...I am already to shift the focus and fire of that discussion to the lefts favorite field leveler...PC, political correctness. I see PC as little more than the strategy of the loser in an argument where fact is trumped by feelings of "this isnt fair"..."I'm offended by...", in other words, that truth and fact are all re-negotiable provided we get the result that suits our argument or purpose. Godwins Law is pure PC. Is it just me, or has anyone else noticed that the PC shells s

Experience? I would only be retracing the steps of many others on the trail that is become the subject known as Sarah Palin if I were to offer why I feel she is the right person for the position she aspires to...I simply feel she shares a common vision for the America we can be with the American people she came from...the middle class, blue collar, union member, firearms owner, family centered...God fearing. When we came to be Scouters, were we experienced? Maybe a little, but probably not as much as we needed to be...so we sought training and mentoring, we attended the training we needed

Amazing! The very bunch to co-sign sexual irresponsibility(the left), are taking the Right to task on account of a pregnant girl who intends to marry the babys father and has the support of (at least)her family...You leftist socialists need first to take aim at the "Baby Mommas" and the fluid donors who impregnated them, thus increasing the tax burden the middle class will be forced to fund in the name of decency and doing the right thing? The left in this country is on par with the NSDAP...look it up, they too promised cradle to grave care...what they delivered on above all was grave!

I like your Troop QM's procedures...very take charge and hold responsible. If you are so large as to have 65 Scouts, you might consider limiting the Scouts able to draw equipment at the designated times to the Patrol QM or a patrol member designated by the Patrol Leader as the acting Patrol QM.

Allright OGE...back to topic! I will cast my vote for John McCain and Sarah Palin. I see these people having beliefs, ideas and values nearly reflecting my own. Sen. McCain also gets my vote for his being a veteran as well as a POW who didnt accept the offer of parole the North Vietnamese government offered him as a consequence of his fathers then position as CinCPac (commander in chief-pacific). He kept the faith of a warrior and a patriot...he is a leader then and now. Sarah Palin may not have the longest track record of a person serving the public interest, but my impression of her is tha

Sorry John, What I supposed would have been referred to as NLE after 2002 and was for new scout leaders at the time...the name it was called doesnt readily come to memory...any other items you care to nit-pick me for? Or is correcting errors on others posts your main purpose here?

Because they can? Parties change? People change? I dont really have a good answer why people will switch allegiences...

F- Scouter, I'd have to guess they were traveling in uniform.

Cub Scout NLE Sep 99 Cub Scout den ldr specific Oct 99 Boy Scout OLS Apr 04 Boy Scout SM specific Apr 04 WB C-19-06 finis ticket 3-08 UC specific 10-07

I just seen a pair of the new greener switchbacks in supplex nylon at our scout shop friday...they seemed identical to the olive green originals until I examined the lower legs...NO zippers to accomodate removing the lower legs while wearing boots...BIG MISTAKE! If you get these new pants and intend to hike in them, be ready to pay a seamstress to hem them AND put in lower leg/ankle zips. You can elect to leave them zipper-less but must still be hemmed. I dont "get" why the switchback originals had to be changed regarding the functional feature of allowing the wearer to remove the lo

Rooster7; Whatever "Catch-22" you perceive, and credit me with inventing is not my exclusive domain...I've met and talked with many good people who think and live similar beliefs. I in no way will be drawn into debating interpretations of the bible...especially in light of the fact that it was heavily edited by the "church" and its leaders to reflect the "beliefs" they thought suitable for consumption by the masses...many books were omitted and/or banned because they didnt measure up to what the "leaders" of the church felt was suitable for the people they "served". Religion is a fin

I believe in God...I believe God is an "inside job", meaning I know that a pressence I sense and feel emmanates from within myself...I can draw comfort and direction from a dogma practiced and celebrated by others of like values and shared within the identity collectively known under the name a faith professes to be known as...hence a "religion". I was raised to be a member of the United Church of Christ, the UCC seems to be very liberal and inclusive of all. At this point in my life...I am not active within the church...this has not diminished my belief in a Supreme Being or entity, nor

Two Bear Scout Reservation. Was located near Weyerhauser Wisconsin. I believe its last season as a Scout camp was 1983. It was originally the Scout camp for the Stateline Council which merged with the Indian Trails Council in 1965 to become the Sinnissippi Council, which merged with Four Lakes Council to become Glaciers Edge in 2005.

I am a dedicated external frame pack user. The benefits offered by the EFP (external frame pack) have been gone over here so far and I will not repeat them. My son and I both use Jansport Carson 90 EFPs. My son first used a Jansport Scout, and he was happy with its performance , but noted that it lacked a cinch strap for the shoulder straps (another Scout I serve with has modified his Scout model EFP with a cinch strap salvaged from a dead Coleman hydration pack). I hiked at Philmont in '06 (crew 731-F), and I had no problems with my Carson 90...well, I had a small problem WAY before