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Welcome aboard Kevin, If you're chomping at the bit to get to work, I think incorporating some Powerpoint into the VLSC modules would be the ticket. Could you work with the gentleman you spoke with and see how he would go about creating one for the first module? Thanks and look forward to working with you. P

Hops, I'll send you the registration form next week. Send $25 in to reserve a spot. We'd love to have you and your fellow Venturers. You'll need this course to complete the Silver Award. Welcome Aboard!!! P

We're presenting the VLSC (with a Sea Scout atmosphere) on Feb 25, 26, 27, 2005 in Central Illinois. We'll cover the VLSC, absolutely top-notch instructors, and also include Venturing YP, Venturing Ethical Discussions, and several Bronze Award/Sea Scout Ordinary requirements. The Petty Officer Academy is open to Venturers, Sea Scouts, Explorers, and Boy Scouts over age 14. We'll cap it at 50 students. 10 spots are already filled. Cost is $75 for the weekend. If anyone would like further information, please PM me. Course Commodore

ASM1, We're coming with a nice sized group. We're most likely going to camp at Artillery Ridge right next to the park. We're planning on squeezing in as many things as possible and I'm really looking forward to another guided tour. P

Following along with what Bob said, a Venture Patrol needs its own ASM who is willing to get outside and outdoors. A Powderhorn graduate would be a perfect fit for a Venture Patrol ASM because he or she would be filled with ideas and activities and ready and willing to get outside and do them with your bunch.

Eamonn, Here's one. An Arts and Hobbies Crew. http://www.ellasharp.org/pages/venture.html Here's the link to a list of posts and crews and their specialties. http://www.exploring.org/

I've heard of that town. I also heard that Illinois State University is one of the finest in the nation, The Harvard of the Midwest. P

Kevin, it's your lucky day.

I would have done it for free. Just needed a couple bucks for the weekends!!! I do recall several guys who joined with large families who were just plain dirt poor. They got a four bedroom apartment, pay, health care, food money, food stamps, utilities, PX and commisary. But, BUT, the two I'm thinking of right now, were the most lazy couple of ragbag, rudypoots, lazy sluggos I've ever met. No wonder they couldn't make it on the outside.....come to think of it, they didn't have stellar or long army careers either. I don't know about now, but during my last tour 88-92, we had a

Giuliani/Schwarzenegger 2008!!! Nuklure power, the polution solution!!!

SA, Thanks for the offer and if we ever get up that way, we'll take you up on it. So in return, if your out our way, we'd be glad to take you out on Lake Michigan. As for Kerry, I don't like him. I have a special burn in my heart for the counter-culture types: Abbie Hoffmans, Jerry Ruebens, Tom Haydens, Jane Fondas, and John Kerrys of the 60's. Him being our President, just ain't right. The primary process shook out, and he's what we got. Did, I say, it just ain't right? I could have certainly got behind a class act like Joseph Lieberman, but it is what it is. I don't u

A Venturing Patrol and a Venturing Crew are two different things. Below is a post describing a Venture Patrol written by Yak Herder. Yak_Herder Forum Member Registered: 8/3/2001 Location: Gilroy, California Posts: 42 View member's profile Send Private Message Ignore this user RE: Venture Patrol Posted: Tuesday, 8/24/2004: 1:47:11 PM Member to Member Private Message quality I wrote this proposal regarding Venture Patrols some time ago. The ideas discussed are being tested in several councils as we speak. At the risk of further muddying the distinctions bet

Well, we may have tipped the same waitress!!! That hotel should have been named a zoo. Krystals, was what I was thinking of that sold the little greasy cheeseburgers. I was certain that I would never get away from Augusta, so I submitted request for transfer frequently, please send me to Germany or Korea or Germany or Korea and in front of 250 of my comrades, the CO announces, "SGT Trail Pounder, your wish has come true, your outta here, your going to.........Alaska!" All 250 people started laughing. But, ha! The joke was on them. The Alaskan Army was the best kept secret in the m

Uncle, I'll bring it up at our next Quarterdeck Meeting. P

Pack, just to cure your concerns, those students that get through BCT and AIT somehow, working the angles, are very obvious when they get to their line units. Many of them are in for a rude awakening, they slipped and slid through the revolving door of initial training, but in the units, a slacker is found out oh so fast and is either motivated to get with it, both by their NCOs or with the help of the squad, or he/she is gone, sent home. It took me about a week as a squad leader to really get a feel for a non-hacker. Which of my teams could I place them with, where they could do a job, if

So Pack you were one of my instructors at Ft. Gordon back in the day? Brrrrrrrrrruuughhhhh. Brings back some memories. I was there in 81-83. The worst memory was that Continental Canning Corp. just down the road out gate 5, every morning, the worst funky smell my poor nose ever suffered through (almost). There was a dive out gate 5 also, The Tap House, whew, what a dive, what a great little dump!!! Friendliest people I can remember. I had basic in Brehm's Barracks on the other side of the PX and movie theatre. Then AIT down in the middle of the brick city, 31M/31N area. Spent the nex

Bush is in a mess? How 'bout those free elections in Afghanistan? Leading in the polls. I don't just have one Bush/Cheney 2004 signs in my yards, I have two. My in-laws got one also, whether they wanted it or not!!! Good job, Mr. President!!!

Let me throw in this, Saddam was a loose cannon, who had already invaded his neighbor and threatened the Saudi Oil Fields, which is a threat to our national interests. I remember reading that when the older Soviet Generals witnessed our capabilites in 90-91, they all renewed their Orthodox faith, thanking God that they were not in the lead T-72 coming down the Fulda Gap. Same goes for North Korea, Syria, and Iran....they saw what happened to one of the world's largest military forces. Iraq's went from sixth largest to seventy forth in 100 hours. They've been warned. How ab

Uncle, We've went to square knots on our Sea Scout uniforms. Blue and white backgrounds. The patches don't go on the Sea Scout uniforms. They've got one more session and they'll have completed the Small Boat Handler Bar and that pins on nicely, similar to the Ranger bar in placement. I'm presenting my first Apprentice rank next month, with two getting very close. The Sea Scout Ranks: Apprentice, Ordinary, Able, are what go on the pocket. When a youth earns Quartermaster they then wear the same uniform as the adult leaders, with the Quartermaster being both his rank and

Oh!!! That's good stuff. I'm ready for spring already. I'm a novice. SA, my SC22 has a retractable keel which weighs approx 500 lbs. How does that compare to having a full keel such as yours? I'm just not sure about taking the SC22 out on Lake Michigan, unless it's a nice friendly day. We've made an agreement with another Sea Scout Ship to allow us to adopt their fourth boat, a Catalina 27' which is docked in a harbor on Lake Michigan. Between the 27' Cat and the SC22, we can get out on the water at the drop of a dime. I've never seen such an instant change in a kid as much as I

I saw a new member to Scouter.com going by the name "seascoutskipper." Sideboys post!!! Pipe the Side!!! Welcome aboard Sir!

What's next? Who knows? Everyday is different. I can understand you concern regarding our crew and my own lack of interest in OA. We're a Sea Scout Ship who sometimes wears the forest green shirts. We are not a troop. We can't hold OA elections, our female members can not be selected for OA. If our members can not join OA and they can not hold elections, OA hasn't even been mentioned in the two years I've been back. We don't even look at the OA dates when we do our calendar. The rest of your questions are getting goofy. Are you involved in Venturing? Or are you pretending

"So back to my question, suppose someone joins that is active in the OA and wears his flap, are you going to chastise them?" To join, they would have to agree to live by the by-laws, which would include uniforming. If they had to wear their flap, there are other Crews besides ours in the area they could join.

nldscout, hold your breath and jump and down and then stomp your feet. The crew said no OA flaps so there's no OA flaps. Your bunch can do as they wish, our by-laws are our by-laws. If they included something over-the-top I would've stepped in, my job is to let them lead themselves as long as their leading themselves. The by-laws wouldn't be worth much too them if we didn't follow them. I thought it was a pretty stand-up act actually. They were rather adult and mature writing the by-laws. The OA boys have chosen sailing over conclaves every single time when given the choice, wonder why

I'm not going to chastise anybody. Our youth leadership, some Boy Scouts and some Venturing only, decided on the by-laws. Seeing that OA is a Boy Scout Society, those in both Boy Scouts can wear it on their tan Boy Scout shirt. It's not even on their radar. They're great kids, more adult than a lot of adults and not childish at all. It's just the way it is, and I support them.