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What challenges are there if you get awarded no matter what? Heh the waterfront was closed but not to worry you all pass swim test. How do you know what you best is if you have not tried or better, tried and failed and then re-tried and succeeded. That's Scouting!

It teaches boys and their parents that there are different rules and requirements for some people. That excuses can replace requirements so why bother doing the work, it is the adult's/teacher's/coach's fault. They bring this entitlement attitude to Boy Scouts. The adults should plan the outings, better the troop should be adult run! No scout should have to call a MBC, lets set up a merit badge university. Not enough campouts for camping and cooking requirements well that is the adults fault, sign it off. Heh I need an Eagle Advisor to do my project! Seen it, hate it.

Scouts is not like Little League where everyone gets a trophy. The boys understand this, the adults once did.

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I would not wear bright yellow during warm weather as it would likely attract more insects to me. I often wear bright safety orange and safety blue in woods. LNT gets a little silly at times and when they do, I ignore them.

Is that a Rockwell illustration? FYI, leadership was NOT a requirement for Eagle until the 1958 changes. Advancement and Leadership were two separate tracks in Boy Scouts from 1910 to 1958. I think Rockwell felt that scout leadership was separate from rank. Here is Rockwell's 1959 Tomorrow's Leader. Note scout's rank is not shown, though the First Class rank is clearly in background. In Rockwell illustrations, a Boy Scout's rank is rarely shown but when it is, First Class is most common. Here is Rockwell's 1966 Growth of a Leader, note the Boy Scout has no rank badge.

Suffolk,VA http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2016/05/03/boy-scout-builds-village/ "Two new longhouses — single-room, beehive-shaped structures covered with woven reed mats — and a wooden lean-to shelter are the latest additions to the Nansemond Indians’ property, near Lone Star Lakes in Chuckatuck. Hunter Ward, a member of Driver Boy Scout Troop 16, spearheaded construction as his Eagle service project. ... Under Ward’s direction and with guidance from the tribe, roughly 25 Scouts and leaders spent five weekends between October and March building the longhouses and lean-to.

"Ask your SPL if his troop is prepared to go camping."

When all kids who want to be scouts are allowed to be scouts.

We don't see the harm either. More and more of our former scout activities are now "family" activities outside of scouting. Our break-away started with shooting sports and continues to spread to other activities.

It is better to recon and select your assistant(s) than allow fate to supply them to you.

Adults combine service stars for years served in Scouting. so I my theory is he was a Cub Scout leader for 3 years. And a horse who saved a boy who fell in a well! Lassie never did despite the comedian jokes "Woof, woof." "What Lassie? Timmy fell in the well?" Never happened.

Huh? I thought the previous year membership numbers were released in the Report to the Nation, two months before Annual Meeting. 2015: 1,261,340 boys ages 6 to 10 in Cub Scouts 840,654 boys ages 11 to 17 in Boy Scouts and Varsity Scouts 142,892 young men and women ages 14 to 20 in Venturing and Sea Scouts http://scoutingnewsroom.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2015-Report-to-the-Nation.pdf

Yes 1974, in Honolulu. Membership had significantly dropped that year to 5,803,885 from 6,405,225 the year before. http://www2.powercom.net/~stolerd/about/ahistory.html

Yes that was odd. It also appeared that his tenderfoot badge was also sewn on uniform! I imagine the studio borrow some uniforms and scouts from a local troop. Imagine requiring a scout to pay $0.10 a week for a used troop uniform? I can't recall, however we did buy our troop neckers.

Yes imagine that - fun, challenge, and adventure at a scout summer camp and maybe an incomplete merit badge or two. Back in the day , we had a Pirate's breakfast at camp. If I remember correctly, you had to row or canoe your patrol across the lake to a field kitchen. But the game was more involved like the cat, chicken, and feed rowboat problem. There were other patrol competitions during the camp week that were clever and fun. I did not complete merit badges at camp until I was a C.I.T.

The Boy Scout Story was Season 1 Episode 18, aired Feb 11, 1956 there had been The 4-H Story two months earlier. 1959 had a Girl Scout story. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0584395/?ref_=ttep_ep6 So my guess is the Scout Handbook in his friend's back pocket was 5th edition maybe 8th printing. http://www.troop97.net/bshb_ed5.htm I found the above information in my failed search for the Second Class 5 mile hike requirements of that time period. My old handbook (6th edition) states a hike with your patrol or a companion approved by your Scoutmaster. No adult needed or required back t

Enjoy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YBOfKTGLtNY

Up to MB counselor, if it were me. List what birds used birdhouse. NONE , but here are the birds which I observed in the area and why they might nest elsewhere. Food, predators (plenty of hawks here), bird size, nesting habits,.. My $0.02

Camp Fiesta Island is only 6+ mile hike north from the Hyatt in San Diego. http://camping.sdicbsa.org/SummerPrograms/CFISummerCamp.php Perhaps the two worlds will meet.

Hmmm, I can't remember any National Annual Meetings being held at scout camps. The meetings do move around the country, always have. I have read of some past annuals being held in Washington, D.C., good venue to lure the President and other government/military leaders. Now it seems that the only time a President might meet or speak with scouts is when they drop by the White House with the Report to the Nation. Maybe the Honorary President of the BSA should be the Vice President? IMO, the Annual meeting attendees are a money, power, networking, award banquet crowd (with spouses). Any scouts

Huh? And here I thought I cleaned up my language. I was gonna say s**t. scat

One month away... http://nam.scouting.org/ Meetings: http://nam.scouting.org/NAM/Activities/Events/Meetings.aspx I have not heard if another National Strategic Plan 2016-?? is coming or if local councils will be pressed to produce complicated plans and meet certain metrics (mergers?) or maybe National will refocus on Jamboree or STEM or ... No Council needs more of this crap http://www.scouting.org/filestore/NationalMeeting/2015/engage_alumni/NAM_2015_Whats_New_in_Council_Strategic_Planning.pdf

Not hard at all. The weight/height chart on the often revised medical form over the past 10 years. Remember it started out as weight/height only and excluded hefty football-playing scouts from activities, not to mention scouters. Regularly ignored locally. A lot of negative feedback followed in this forum, that this was the wrong metric. A couple years later weight rules changed with BMI added... Another common situation is when a rule/requirement is re-intrepreted, e.g., Emergency Preparedness MB requires that a scout have First Aid MB. To me that mean prerequisite, but word has come down