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Not cheeky enough. He should have sent a check (from your tax-cut) to the treasury to cover the cost of the staffers' time to do the paperwork.

Do you have nominees who will do the jobs for less?

Here's a situation: Encouraging youth leadership, I have a scout take point as the contact person for our Memorial Flag placement project. Leaders from around the district are to send that scouts their contact info and #s coming. Is it on me to remind leaders to CC another adult?

Not a fan. Graphic looks like a short sword with grappling hooks.

I talked to a lot of highly skilled individuals while on vacation. Very few would volunteer as direct-contact leaders for even a week, let alone a month. While helping us tie off, a dock hand's watch dropped between the pier and our boat. Already in my trunks, I shucked my shirt, had my kids toss me my mask, and jumped in. The sun was only coming through a narrow gap. The sailors in an ajacent slip boat scampered to find me a dive light, but knowing that the current could bury the thing before I found it, I started my search. A couple of surface dives between shadows, avoiding disturbing too much sand, and my hands were on the watch ... to the relief of a very hard-working young man. The other sailors (far more regular boaters than I) were impressed. As I swam back to the dock, I exclaimed, "That's my lost body drill for the year!" Any scout with Lifesaving MB would know what I was talking about. But when I explained to the boaters, "It's a guard thing." They asked, "Like EMS? Spec. Ops?" Climbing the dock ladder I said, "Boy Scouts." Jaws dropped. Mrs. Q and kids held back snickers. Bottom line: the skill set for Eagle is a bar for adults as well as youth.

Want more pride? Let adults try to earn it.

No puzzle at all. The folks at the top sincerely believe in some kind of division in order to maintain their programs, and they simply did not trust the folks at the bottom to hold up that same vision.

Thrifty kicks in ... Lawyers fees, etc ...

Not a problem that Title IX does not apply.. It doesn't apply to sports clubs either.. The OP's question is about folks comfort with separate packs/troops. Showing the a parallel that everyone seems to be okay with is one possible way to increase that comfort"

It's just not that simple. Were I to go pack a few years, I would have thrown my weight around and pushed for us to keep our traditional number because that's what our troop wound up doing this year anyway. A got a very excited text from a former scouter when she found out. This stuff means something to people weather they say it or not. Clever artwork makes the best of a bad situation. There's no more salt being rubbed in, but the wound is still there.

Two words: Title IX. Southwest PA is a big sports culture. Some folks know the rule books (i.e., the federal, state, and even school district statues) by heart. The notion of "parallel" teams in soccer, for example, is not strange to anyone. Most are aware that boys and girls may share facilities and even scrimmage together, but the two teams have different standings in the league. The caveat: from time to time an official waiver is given to a girl to play on a boy's team (and rarely, vice versa) in a sparse school district.

Day 2 of vacation, my body reacted to a few bug bites with the ugliest pustules I've ever seen. Our captain and I were wondering if it was poison wood exposure, but I can't figure how or when. Finally on day 4 they are oozing less. I'm gonna be paranoid for some time after I get home.

Those things are important at face value, so it is a little tough to report on why. But, since my family had us doc at a marina with wifi, I've made my coffee and the sun is rising on the first clear day of our tropical vacation, I simply say this: Down to the semi-retired cab driver who took us from the airport to help us provision, then to our slip (and did not charge us for a full hour fare), to the businessman in a fishing charter opposite ours... Everone I talked to is convinced that scouting does something very good for a youth. What could it be? Lots of folks take their kids on adventures. Bears don't care about what uniform a hiker wears. But duty to God and country, helping others at all times and keeping fit to do so ... plus a short list of traits needed to fulfill that duty ... set the bar for a young man to achieve greatness. Vows are like loadstone, they set a needle to align north-south once that needle floats freely. We scouters recognize it, and a lot of other people were scouts or have met scouts recognize it too.

Mostly, the CC recruits adults and they sort things out among themselves. Our current CC, from the half of the troop merger who had younger boys, was more hands on with the schedule (engineer, go figure). Now that we have the PLC clicking better, he's more relaxed. This has been a pretty crappy year for me, so the SM has had to call on other ASMs to step up. They did. We also get adult applications in boys' hands as soon as they turn 18.

Most summer camps near swift water will offer that as part of BSA guard training. Many outfitters know who to call about such things. BTW - the biggest challenge about a specialty like acquatics is keeping up the certifications. It's a lot of time out of your schedule to stay trained. So, if folks would like you to offer something (e.g., pre-camp swim checks so they don't "waste" time in line for it at day 1 of camp) schedule it on your terms, or not at all. On the positive side, it is a tremendous privilege helping that scout who's been stuck at 2nd class for 3+ years master those 100 yards.

Interesting to note: The world crest is not drawn ... Nor is the US flag. Censoring any patriotic theme? Second class rank by color, but fleur-de-lis? Cub Scout diamond on belt. PoR, but no patrol. Either the guy's confused or trying to convey confusion.

It really starts with the CC. He needs to be on the hunt for adults to add to the depth chart. You need to help him. Together, you need to find families/friends with property to camp in. If not. Forget overnights every month. Work on day activities theta get the boys out in the community visiting local officials or doing service projects. Q: where do your scouts who age out go?

“It’s 2018, and a person who identifies as a metronome still can’t join the Boy Scouts. Let that sink in,” That would explain the profoundly arythmic campfire songs.

Well there's your reservoir! All those bagged and tagged biting specimens that everyone tossed aside but forgot to kill!

Mission statements in general are pretty novel contrivances of corporate culture. I remember taking on roles in church leadership and a Wharton grad said we needed one, (because, really, the Good Book wasn't quite cutting it). My brother was working on management theory about the same time, and he pitched the same thing to his church, who had even more ancient roots. I suspect this happened in a number of non-profits, and figure BSA was one of the leads in this, given how it actively sought leaders from it's most active corporate donors.

Cross-posting ... Agree that first-draft names rarely stick. Things will eventually get called what folks want to call them.

Technically, in pioneering, the splices and mats (like the turkshead flattened out) fall under macramé. So we're already there. Hashtag parachord bracelet.

This boils down to one of those "until you've walked a mile in their shoes" situations. In general, I trust boots-on-the-ground scouters to know what it means to do a service to their children. I am concerned, however, that those cubs will be perplexed when they cross over into a troop that makes the lady cobra patrol camp 300' away from the gentleman rat patrol!

One perspective is that BSA started down the road to faithlessness when it started purging adults, girls, and godless from advancement. This attempts to restore that trust of delivering the promise of scouting ... rewarding achievement rather than identity.

Around here the general public refers to them (Packs, Troops, Crews, Posts) as scouts, meanwhile GS/USA were girl scouts. I'm not sure how that came about, either from casual use of language or foreign influence. My Italian exchange student, for one, was quick to correct, "I am a Scout. Not a Girl Scout." Interestingly she also found the distinction between "scout" and "scouter" to be odd. It bothered her when I would refer to when I was a scout. She'd interject, "What do you mean? Once a scout, always a scout!"