RememberSchiff

True enough.

I know Trail Life  has advancement transfer guidelines for those scouts coming from BSA. I have not found the same for BSA.

Why not start your own topic?

Seeing some local news coverage today of the first day Jan 15 of the Early Adopter program .

1 minute ago, ItsBrian said:

Really? GS can use power tools for their project and BS can’t? 

With training yes.

Are scouts experiencing the Patrol Method?  The Patrol method once referred to a fixed membership group of scouts, now if seems more dynamic or ad hoc for each activity - lead those you got?

I think a Girl Scout transferring in Boy Scouts would be stunned to be told she could not use power tools for her Eagle project that she had used for her Gold.

13 minutes ago, HelpfulTracks said:

I am not a fan of giving too much credit. Certainly not to the level I have seen people expect. 

We do not count completion of requirements in Scouting to count in Venturing or vice versa (unless the youth was in both units at the time.) 

I am much more comfortable giving credit for very specific requirements and then only with some level of validation.

 

Yes, the BSA allows double even triple dipping of requirement credit but only within one Scouting organization.

We ran into this with a Civil Air Patrol transfer. With his Rank/Grade where should he start with advancement in BSA? What transfer credit should he given? He certainly had more wilderness survival training than most scouts.

I think @ItsBrian was referring to link(s) in @Dixit topic from yesterday. Hope this helps.

Maybe National expected "experienced scouts", certainly Eagle scouts, would return as Scouters and hence training would be a lesser priority?

Right, no FEMA Nuclear Blast Are You Ready link for you.

No Civil Defense poster for you then.

23 minutes ago, Stosh said:

Just one missile?  Heck, we were worried about Russia emptying their arsenal.

As 21st Century update: There are no safe places.  We figured that out 50 years ago, you musta missed the  memo.

 

70+ years after Hiroshima and Nagaski, the hibakusa will tell you they survived.  We try to save as many as we can.

I wonder if Hawaiian  scouts will be distributing  procedure updates to ballistic missile threats.

“BALLISTIC MISSILE THREAT INBOUND TO HAWAII. SEEK IMMEDIATE SHELTER. THIS IS NOT A DRILL.” ...it was a false alarm which not everyone received.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-nation/wp/2018/01/13/hawaii-residents-get-ballistic-missile-threat-messages/?utm_term=.6995d400f7fc

I found this but I don't know which "webinar" it is. 

At the end, the presenter says to the audience "There is no special training. This is Cub Scout Leader Training." 

Good luck with your new challenge. Hope it is fun for all.

This is surprising.

I would not guess that the BSA is an international brand. How much BSA-branded product is sold outside of the US?

$75million sales with say 2million customers seems small taters.

Am I missing something?

@cyphertext welcome to scouter.com

Stosh you like to be contrary so Syracuse may be your town, as I recall, the traffic lights are upside down. Green is on top, red on the bottom. 

16 hours ago, scoutldr said:

Besides $300 for a wooden box, did anyone notice the rank badges are out of order?

Not me. Good eye. 

I wonder if the BSA License Lawyers will defend the brand and send notice.

Should there be a recall? 

As you may recall some of my earlier posts, at one time we had 20+ adult leaders in a troop of 36-40 scouts. It didn't work,  it was an adult-run outing club.  Good riddance.  What we have now does work, and yes I like a working scout-run troop.

I gave my opinion about the risk regarding a troop mechanic,  your attorney or attorneys feel different.

Anyway, we agree to disagree, meaning each side has stated their positions and they are resolute. There is no need for further bickering, er argument I mean.

As presented, your system works for you while ours, a different system, works for us.

We agree to disagree on approaches.

We agree to disagree.

We obviously prefer a small pool of trained BSA leaders and have found it is more conducive to a scout-run unit. Works for us.

I will stick with my mechanic and his partner. I know him and trust him to protect my family as he has for 20+ years.  I think your troop has good intentions but is greatly increasing your liability risk down the road, so to speak.

Just now, Col. Flagg said:

 

Exactly why my unit requires ALL parents to register. We also do NOT allow any un-registered siblings to attend camp outs. At the end of the day the CO, SM and CMT Chair are the ones with their butts on the line if something goes wrong. We make sure (by checking paperwork) that all cars are properly insured and inspected too. We have a dad who owns a garage and he does a $30 inspection on any cars that are going to carry troop kids. The troop reimburses for gas. ALL adults are YPT trained and even CRP/AED (which we have two portable ones).  We've had these policies in place for many years now. We get a few folks that complain...maybe one a year. And yes, we DO have a family camp out once a year just to meet the requests from those who want such a thing.

Glad it works for you, that would be the last thing we would do.

Our SM carefully "encourages" only parents who understand the program (specifically this is not Cub Scouts and scout-run) to register as an adult leader.  Our ASM, who is Outing Coordinator,  selects from that pool, sort of like the start of the old Mission Impossible tv show.

Just anybody and everybody registering as an adult leader without any knowledge of Boy Scouts is asking for trouble. Can an adult still register without taking YPT? Yes, how dumb is that. Oh , within 30 days, you are supposed to  .... Train, test and pass, then register.  Sort of like Show, Tell, Do.

If the troop said that I  had to go to another mechanic to inspect my family car or pay $30 when the state charges $7,  bye.