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Scouter (survivalist) Terry Fossum and his novice teammate won the competition, beating the 9 other teams.

Spoiler Alert!!!! Next posts state competition results.

While hiking have you or your scouts been asked by other, non-scout hikers on the trail if you have a cellphone they could use?

Thanks for correction.

What of the scouts who do not have a tool that more and more scouts are bringing along? I have a dumb cellphone by choice - long battery life. I might be able to make a phone call with a smart phone if it had a dialtone and a rotary dial app.

And so, here we are.

I understand some cell phones are good fire starters.

I'm curious, how different are troop cellphone policies from the local school cellphone policies?

Hiram Little was born March 31, 1919, in Eatonton and spent his childhood in Atlanta. He attended the David T. Howard school in Old Fourth Ward, the African-American school famously attended by Martin Luther King Jr. in the 1930s. At Howard, Little was a charter member of Boy Scout Troop 94, the first troop in an African-American school in Atlanta. He enlisted in the Army Air Forces as part of the Tuskegee Aviation program in 1941, joining the 477th Bombardment Group in 1944. Though World War II ended before he could be deployed to combat, Little made a name for himself as part of the Freeman Field Mutiny (sometimes called Freeman Field Incident - RS). While his unit was stationed at Freeman Army Airfield near Seymour, Ind., members of Little's 477th Bombardment Group, black pilots, attempted to integrate an all-white officers club. When Little’s commander instructed the 477th to sign an order that they would cease all attempts to enter the club, 101 soldiers, including Little, refused. (The Freeman Field Incident - RS) Many were shipped out to other bases and 162 were arrested, some twice. They would not be vindicated until 1995, when the Air Force officially set aside a soldier's court-martialed conviction and removed letters of reprimand from the permanent files of 15 others. Later in life, Little would remain committed to Civil Rights and participated in voter registration drives in Alabama and Mississippi during the 1960s. Little was honorably discharged from the Army in 1945 and went on to graduate from Morehouse College and accept a job at the U.S. Postal Service. He later became one of Atlanta's first African-American supervisors and was a middle-level manager with the postal service until his retirement in 1978. But Little, who was described by those who knew him as an intelligent man always up for a challenge, wasn't slowing down. He received a certificate of carpentry from Atlanta Technical College in 2005 at the age of 86 and remained active in Boy Scouts and the Atlanta veterans community until his death (at age 98, this past Feb - RS) ... Mr. Little was honored with a Congressional Gold Medal in 2007, presented by President George W. Bush. Scout Salute and Farewell, http://www.news-daily.com/features/riverdale-honors-the-life-memory-of-tuskegee-airman-hiram-e/article_0448b853-604e-5417-a91a-dc1815ac8765.html http://www.thehistorymakers.com/biography/hiram-little-41 http://www.gpb.org/wwii/hiram-little https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freeman_Field_mutiny

IMO, not tangential rather the logical extension of what @@Eagledad said in #22, i.e., from the scouting experience to the scout's life.

My mistake, I only searched as far back as 2014 and could not find anything. It looks there is some archiving of 2013 and earlier.

#DitchTheNeckerchief

Update: 4/24/17: Mr. Hagerty received the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award from the Middle Tennessee Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is still awaiting Senate confirmation of his nomination of Ambassador to Japan. http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/local/williamson/2017/04/24/bill-hagerty-named-distinguished-eagle-scout-franklin-ceremony/100836538/

IMHO, I see diversity in the habitat as a reasonable interpretation of the "10 different ...animals". When scouts take Environmental Science and Nature merit badges this will be emphasized. If a scout found ten types of chickadees here in North America, well forget SC let's send him to Cornell.

All internet archived copies appear to have been scrubbed, perhaps an indication that website was not helpful in BSA legal matters. Or maybe that whole BSA legal department was fired and formed a Divorce Law Practice for Scouter spouses. Now that could be doubly helpful to Scouters.

I interpreted "find 10" as an exploration of diversity in the habitat and their place (consumers) in the food chains/webs. So I don't want 10 list of chickodee, two types of nuthatches, four woodpeckers, titmouse,... not much diversity. My $0.02

It is common for packs to run separate races with an entry fee for non-Cubs (mostly Dads) usually with the same BSA weight/size rules, but I am seeing more unrestricted races which are fun and lucrative. CO2 gas propellants, soda/beer can Physics club challenges (STEM groups,high school/colleges) altered track Any packs out there running unrestricted class races? How is it working out?

Within safe limits and grounded safety instruction, we try to do activities that our scouts consider fun. If the BSA does not agree, due to liability or lack of confidence in us or whatever, it becomes a family activity with parent approval and participation. We were/are all parents before we were/are unit leaders. All of our unit shooting sports activities with exception of summer camp are outside of scouting. We have also driven go-carts outside of scouting. Snowmobiles, ATV's no. In Cubs, we held a workshop with some bench power tools for Pinewood Derby. It was a family activity. For some dads and sons, it was the first time that either used a band saw. Hunting was another "family activity". 3D targets for practice and live, of course, for hunting. Another $0.02,

Single tents or bivouac sacks are sounding more appealing, either way it's okay to wake up with yourself.

Informative first post, welcome to scouter.com

President Donald Trump’s nominee for Ambassador to Japan, Bill Hagerty, is an Eagle Scout. ... told those at the Friends of Scouting 2017 Williamson County Good Scout Event that being Senior Patrol Leader of his scout troop in Gallatin 40 years ago helped develop his confidence as a leader. Hagerty, 57, co-founder of Hagerty Peterson & Company, a private equity investment firm, and Eagle Scout, who served as Tennessee Commissioner of Economic Development from 2011-2014 and on the Trump transition, spoke At Embassy Suites Hotel Cool Springs about how the skills he learned in The Boy Scouts of America helped him in his life and business career. ... “I think the two points I made that Scouts teaches you leadership and confidence,†Hagerty said referencing his speech. “The leadership skills are all learned through the patrol method in Scouting.†The patrol method, which breaks the scouts in to smaller groups that work together within the troop with its own leadership structure, helped Hagerty have the confidence get his first job at 14 and was named senior patrol leader in his Gallatin, Tenn., Troop at 17 which went to the BSA National Jamboree in Washington D.C. ... “I think it’s the recognition of the investment that adult leaders placed in me as a boy,†said Hagerty who now works with his son’s troop. “It’s taken a lifetime to translate but I hope that the leadership abilities that I learned in Scouting as a boy will continue to guide me as I move on to Japan and try to represent our nation there to the best of my ability.†“I didn’t think about it at the time, but as I look back on it was because I understood how to be a leader, how to listen, how to organize my thoughts, how to set goals and how to execute them,†he said. https://springhillhomepage.com/new-ambassador-to-japan-traces-leadership-skills-to-scouting/

What if the program year started with 4-6 months of training and practice with NO advancement (no sign-off). Then the rest of year (includes summer camp) would be Advancement (test, sign-off, BOR, COH). Service would be year round. Might ground the helicopter parents and derail the Eagle Express.

Agree. Too much process and adult involvement.

Welcome to scouter.com First you need to find a Merit Badge Counselor for each respective partial merit badge. The official answer lies here http://www.scouting.org/scoutsource/guidetoadvancement/themeritbadgeprogram.aspx 7.0.4.3 What to Do When Requirements ChangeThe current annual edition of Boy Scout Requirements lists the official merit badge requirements. Once new or revised merit badge requirements appear in this publication, which is released each January, any Scout just beginning work on a merit badge must use the requirements as stated there. If changes to merit badge requirements are introduced in a revised merit badge pamphlet after the January release of the Boy Scout Requirements book, then the Scout has until the following January 1 to decide what to do. He may continue—or begin work—using the old merit badge requirements and the old pamphlet; or he may switch to—or begin work—using the new requirements and the new pamphlet. Unless it is otherwise stated in the merit badge pamphlet, Boy Scout Requirements, or official communications from the National Council, if a Scout chooses to use the old merit badge requirements and pamphlet, he may continue using them until he has completed the badge. There is no time limit between starting and completing a badge, although a counselor may determine so much time has passed since any effort took place that the new requirements must be used.

Doesn't stop scouts from earning (nod and a wink) it at summer camp.