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  1. If a scout is ashamed to wear their uniform in public, then perhaps they should not be in scouts. They need to grow a backbone. What is there to be ashamed of? RD
  2. Kraut-60 More thoughts. I tell the boys in my outpost this passage. Revelations 3:14-16 NIV 14To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation. 15I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! 16So, because you are lukewarm neither hot nor cold I am about to spit you out of my mouth. Kelly version: Make up your mind, nobody likes a fence-sitter. Matthew 25-14 talks about people being responsible which what has been given to them.
  3. I tried to look back as a teenager in high school. I was on the track team and in scouts as the SPL. I asked about attendance at an upcoming meet. He asked me what was more important to me - the track team or scouts and that I had to make a choice. I walked away and lead my troop on the camp out. Later, he wanted to talk to me why I walked away from my team mates. My reply was that the troop was my team LONG before my track mates. I was the SPL over 35 scouts in 3 patrols. Him giving me an altamatum was a bad idea on his part. I was being responsible to fulfill my leadership position
  4. SSScout came up with the name: Faith Merit Badge You come up with the requirements. Tick Tock Tick Tock! Four more days until the merit badge game is closed. RD
  5. SSScout, You got the idea! I was thinking of starting with a funny merit badge, but a serious MB is good too! I say go with this one being the first merit badge in the Halls of Merits. Is there any way to post an image of the Merit Badge? My brother and I used to make up merit badges when the Round Table meeting got boring. We would pass a note around and someone else would fill in the next requirement. Our first one was Litigation Merit Badge. It had a dollar sign as the letter "S" and "ue" next to it. OK, here are the rules: 1. A merit name will be posted as a new topic
  6. One idea - We did this on one camp-out and it was great! We had about 30 minutes of free time after lunch before the events cranked up again. We stoked up the fire, cut up meat and veggies for our evening meal, filled the dutch oven, and dug a hole by the campfire. We lined it is coals, placed the D.O. in the hole, covered it with more coals and topped it off with dirt. When it was supper time, we just unburied our meal and ate. Why showed the scouts how we did it and their typical answer was, "Why don't we do that?" But on the next camp out, they don't do what they were shown and en
  7. I was wondering if scouter would be up to a merit badge game? There are some rules, but it is really fun. Basically, a person comes up with a fictional merit badge name and everybody submits the requirements for that badge. After a period of time, the merit badge is closed and the members vote for the best requirements. The winner gets the most votes. Any takers? RD
  8. I think the idea of taking "strangers" of boys and tossing them into a patrol would be good for a Junior Leader Training Camp, but not for a campout. The concept is a reality though. We don't get to pick patrols in the real world. You get hired in a job and are put into a group of strangers. Or perhaps you are placed into a work-group or a committee at work. You have to learn to work together or the group fails. Perhaps this is a good idea for the wrong event. Of course I was not there and do not have the vision of the camping committee. I wouldn't want some of the younger scouts
  9. Well, the local scouts made the newspaper. I ran into DE Nick Ross yesterday and he said that everyone was defrosted and well. -17 was reported of from Camp Ranger Joe. RD http://www.thedailyreview.com/articles/2009/01/18/news/doc4972b10c34347797324962.txt#blogcomments
  10. It is too cold to camp when the pet troop monkey freezes to death. This week-end is the Polar Bear Campout for 5 River's Council. It was 2 degrees this morning, and it is to get colder tonight and tomorrow. We camped at -10 and it was not as bad as you think it would be. Everything stayed frozen and you were chilly enough to not break a sweat, but not chilly enough to shiver. The worst Polar Bear was when it got up to 35-40 degrees. It was miserable since everything was getting wet. Still a good time, but we had to have a buddy check every half hour. Lots of hot chocolate, coffee, soup
  11. I hope you got it on video. You could post it so leaders could see how a troop should be run. Don't worry, it will happen again, again, again and again. Congradulations. Treat your patrol leaders with a candy bar or something like that. What gets rewarded, gets repeated. RD
  12. There is prayer in Sayre over Cooper and your family. I found your posting to be upsetting after I put myself in your shoes. It could be my son as well. I will tell my outpost to pray for you all at our next meeting. Keep us informed. God bless. RD
  13. This adventure of hiking the entire AT would make a great adventure story and even a movie. I am not a writer though. I have a good imagination and vision though. RD
  14. Has anyone done Pine Wood Dragsters before? You may ask, what is a Pine Wood Dragster? It is a pine wood derby car with a hole drilled out in the center of the car. A model rocket engine in put into place with the shoot placed in the front of the car. The dragsters are placed on a track and sent down a wire to a finish line. The shoot deploys and slows the car down. I have a car made, but I have not raced it yet. Here is the website I came across. God bless. RD http://www.maximum-velocity.com/rocket_cars.htm I contacted a Ranger Commander out in CA. He says they are a real
  15. It sounds like you are going to have some fun. My troop always had a pinewood derby each year. The boys knew what they were getting for Christmas from the troop. So over Christmas break, they would work on their cars. The dads also got cars to work on as well. We would also have some dads bring in power tools like a bandsaw, beltsanders, and dremmel tools and we would have a cut night. Doing so levels the playing field for boys that do not have a dad around to help them out. Let the boys do as much as they can except using the power tools. Just have fun with the boys.
  16. Did Adam and Eve have belly buttons? What does "white stone" mean? When a person is raised from the dead, why are they given something to eat? RD
  17. Sounds like a "SWINE DINE" to me. At Camp Brule', Ranger Joe would have the scouts separate the food from the non-food items and would take the slop to a nearby farmer. He would feed the pigs from May until the end of summer camp. Then at the end of the year he would get some pork for his family. It saved the council a lot of money instead of disposing of the garbage in the landfill. Having the boys work towards a merit badge is a good idea as well. I would think that slaughtering a pig would freak out some kids as well as parents. Not that I would be oppossed to it. People seem
  18. Write to the president elect and invite him to be the Honorary President of the BSA. If he hears more from scouts that the other groups, who is he going to listen to? I wouldn't feel right telling a person in authority over me what to do. The first amendment guarantees freedom of religion and free speech, not freedom from religion and free speech. Also without government infringment "free exercise of religion." Well Scouters, the Royal Rangers will be praying for you. RD
  19. 2eagles Try our neighbor up north and the CSA. We did two international campouts back in 1982 and 1984 with the Canadians. It was a good time. Of course we were in New York which is a little closer to the border than you are. One year the US hosted and the other year the Canadians did. We had a contigency of about 75 scouts. I traded loads of patches. RD
  20. I read on some of the posts that some of the patrols had fewer than 8 members. We tried to keep 8 members and if there were 10-12 members another patrol could form. Years ago, the troop was up to the time to have patrol leader elections. Two boys were upset that they did not get elected as patrol leaders. So my dad came up with the "Patrol Leader Challenge". The PLC was open to any scout, any time of the year. He announced that if any scout was able to recruit 7 boys, he could be removed from the patrol and start his own patrol with himself being the patrol leader. So the two boys round
  21. I wouldn't throw in the towel yet. BSA got through the 1929 Stock Market crash and the Great Depression. It is just that the US has had so much blessing since then, that it is a shock to the pocket book. I think that membership may increase. Why? Camping is cheap and less money means that people are going to look for alternatives for vacations and entertainment. If people are layed-off then they tend to stay home and do more stuff with their family. People need to change their lifestyles and get used to not having so much stuff. I tend to be an optimist. I don't think that our ec
  22. I have to admit my dad had the gift of gab and salemanship a well as leadership. So I hope I will end up as good as he was. Of course I have met other leaders that were just as good that I have learned from. That is one of the good things about the internet and forums like this. I wish I had access to this when I was younger. You can learn a lot from the internet, but mentoring can't be replaced. As John Maxwell says, "If you want to be a good leader, learn from leaders better than you." I have not heard anyone complain about his leadership book series. Try them out. RD
  23. I did not find this topic on any of the threads, but I wanted to start one to come up with ideas to encourage scout dads to get more involved with their sons and the troop. We all know as leaders that if a boy is not getting parental support, they generally do not flourish and grow. My dad, my brother and myself had a great time in scouts. So I will start out the thread with one way that worked for us in T-11. When my dad took over the troop, we only had about 8 boys, 1 SM, 1 ASM, and 2 CM. Of course my dad wanted the troop to grow. So he bought a dutch oven and started to cook meals with
  24. IM_Kathy, In rangers, we would call your son an "IRON MAN" since the cooking equipment of choice is the dutch oven, "CI" AKA cast iron. We had a scout named Steve that was an "IRON MAN". When he was SPL, he planned a hike. He carried that dutch oven 10 miles! We tried to get him to do foil cooking, but he would not. We even offered to drive the D.O. to the campsite, but he said he just told the scouts that you had to carry everything on your own back. We had an unwritten rule in my troop concerning left overs. If members of another patrol were still hungry, the could eat the le
  25. I just got off the phone with my brother and he reminded me of an incident that occurred in our old troop. So here it is. In my troop we used to have an adult leaders patrol and three scout patrols. They would all camp close but separate from each other. We started to notice that some of the food would come up missing in our adult patrol campsite on one of our camp outs. We heard through one of the patrol leaders that the kids were to lazy to cook their own food and were swiping ours instead. (as well as fire wood, water, and washing dished in our wash tins) So we tried to think up a good way
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