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I know this is an old thread, but still being unable to create a new one this seemed like the right place to post. We have a few Scouts who could not make our District's tap out this year (mandatory band thing). They are not going to summer camp this year because they are doing NT and it is too expensive for them to do both. District is not doing any unit-based tap outs but the boys really don't want to miss out on the tap out ceremony. Is there any written policy that would preclude trained OA members in our unit from doing our own tap out? We have a Scouter who as a youth was the l

Well that's the lovely thing about membership organizations, you can always leave and start your own if you want or find another that fits your belief system. If I don't like AARP I can find another senior's group to belong to. Don't like my college because they encourage anti-conservative or liberal values? I can find myself a college that fits my belief system without forcing the obvious majority of people at said college to conform to mine.

Seems a simple question to me, and in my mind it certainly should mean interpretation A. Unfortunately, it seems to me that National has been following interpretation B for the last few decades, which doesn't seem to be logically correct in any way I can see. Hmmm...how so? Because I don't know of many major religions that would condone same-sex anything. I have not seen BSA tilting pro-Christian. Certainly not the way it was when us old farts were Scouts. What specific policies has BSA pushed in the last 20 years that have been solely pro-Christian? Just curious.

Yeah, unfortunately the new interface is rather touchy when you go back to edit, so I have to use the new English they are teaching in schools these days.

Problem is a Scout can get Eagle without really being active as long as he is registered, in good standing and either can meet (or attempt to meet) the minimum standards for being "active" for his unit OR provide a reasonable explanation as to what he has been doing with his time. BSA in the GTSS has essentially watered down what being active entails. I know most units have attendance requirements for leadership positions, but few have it written in their bylaws for just an average Scout. So if I am a Life Scout without a leadership position, in most troops I am not required to attend any % of

As I said in the other forum the cost difference is a few bucks for like services between the two software. ;-) I've done the math recently.

Thanks for the note. According to the current hydro tables they are getting plenty of water this year. Not doing any HA stuff...all new Scouts mostly since most of our guys are doing Philmont this summer. Thanks!

If a Scout loses a blue card in a house fire and we happen to have his partial info in TM, we can reissue his blue card and send a note to the next counselor noting what happened. Never had a Scout turned away yet. On the other hand, we HAVE had counselors turn away Scouts for losing their blue card essentially saying "tough luck, start over". Ergo, we keep records.

There is nothing in what I posted that does not put the onus on the boy in out troop. Merely, we have a large troop with 70+ boys. Every COH we have roughtly 200+ MBs to hand out. We don't do MBs at meeting. Our troop is blessed enough to have professionals from many walks of life who have medical, dental, military or other specialized training that allows us to offer classes to our Scouts (outside of regular meetings) where the boys can learn something new. Classes are kept small so the boys learn something. This is no differerent than a boy going out and getting an MB counselor on his own. W

- Tracking what requirements Bobby doesn't finish should he get a partial - Keeping a permanent record (not paper) that has a back-up in case Bobby loses his Blue Card - Being able to run a report on how many MBs were earned or ranks were award to qualify for JTE or other unit honors - Being able to give group credit if you have 20 guys taking Basketry and not having to fill out the same spreadsheet 20 times for the same thing - Having a file that can be imported into Internet Advancement so that National has a record of the Scout's work (and for free rank patches) - Tracking when badg

@BD: We did something very similar. We have a monthly cook off on Saturday dinner where the winner gets a leather patch and 5pts for his patrol. They get an award called the "Golden Whisk" which is passed from patrol to patrol each month based on the cooking winner. We do special ribbons for events like orienteering, pioneering, nature, etc. At the end of every 6 months the patrol with the most points gets pizza (Dutch oven, of course) with the Scouters. We have seen a real esprit de corps form after a while. We now have patrols racing to take down/set up camp the fastest (points lost if not d

Good luck. My state...a very gun friendly state...there ain't none to be had.

@BW, I think you missed my post where I put the costs out there directly from the TM website. Let me recap: You can buy TM for $41/year on a three year license. That gets you TM and DotNet which allows you to have it installed on several machined. I am in a large troop and we have plenty of people accessing TM from laptops, desktops. This makes TM cheaper by nearly half than the other software you mention. Now you need to have a website, right? SOAR allows you to have a full featured website which does everything the other software you mention does AND integrates with TM to update your

My troop got 100 5' 3" closet dowels from a local lumber store. They donated to use so cost us nothing. I bought the rope and now we have all of our pioneering supplies.

Just checked the various websites of the two products listed. I saw: 1) Troopwebhost: $99/year + $15/year for own URL 2) Troopmaster: $41/year (based on a three year license with TM and DotNet access making it "cloud" based and multiuser) We add SOAR on to that (@$89/year) and we get the full features of that site + TM which is a bit more robust than Troopwebhost for us $15 more a year. While both products likely meet the needs of troops just a bit differently, I would suggest that the gap between the two is not so great. In fact, Tm being the more robust for advancement mgmt.,

A buddy of mine mentioned that Mexico has tons of .22 shot. Oh the ramifications of getting a hold of that.