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there are some field activities the course I attended was an all day Saturday affair at the BS camp with the Shooting sports director in charge of Cub Scout activities. If your council has an active shooting sports program there will be several Shooting sports directors as one is required on property to open the ranges a properly qualified range master may then run the range but the director must remain on property. That is why there will be more than one no one wants to give up every weekend. One will likely be assigned to the cub scout program he will oversee all day camps and family camps

pogey - money received from the state porgy - a small bony family of fish prized by certain people for its flavor Our scouts pick their menus which are reviewed for basic requirements two hot meals etc. We are going to let them bring their own grub for wilderness survival campout and have warned them they will be lugging it at least 5 miles. Should be interesting. Same ground rules two hot meals. Will probably have some that will be hungry we did tell them to make sure they had at least 1000 calories.

There already is a next step up it is called Shooting Sports Director and entitles one at a cub scout camp to run archery. b.b. gun and wrist rockets. A boy scout shooting sports director runs all the ranges at a boy scout camp mostly rifle, shotgun, black powder, archery and rendezvous sports. There are no badges or position patches for these positions, however the pay is outstanding. Just last summer at day camp I got a big hug from a mentally challenged young cub who just hit the bb target for the first time.

Medicine man would be ok but a chief outfit is probably better. Akela is the leader the cubs follow you can throw in some of the medicine man visionary things too.The chief costume should be rentable if need be. Think of it as medicine man is staff officer chief is line officer. The pack can award the boys whatever is in their budget to provide an arrow and certificate is nice some give a scout handbook or mess kit as well. Go to your committee and ask for a budget remember what is done for one should be done for all. Flaming arrow tape a light stick to an arrow.

I love my cast iron. Both my dutch ovens for camping and my cast iron fry pans for home. I always clean right away and then reheat and anoint with oil. I hate these nonstick things you can't scrub with a metal scrubber. I also subscribe to the iron in diet is a good thing and aluminum has been linked to Alzheimer's. So no foil linings for my pot. The only thing to use foil for is foil dinners.

http://www.poolesbarbq.com/ If you are going to Ellijay stop here. If you are near Atlanta go to Stone Mountain the laser show is a kidpleaser. Capital visiting is also a good thing for Cit in the Nation.

Here in Florida we love winter camping and tend to take a break from camping during the brutal July & August period. The temperature is still tolerable in June for summer camp even though they got evacuated to the mess hall for a tropical storm last year. The dangers of heat exhaustion are all too real for the kids doing outdoor activities. Constant reminders to drink some water and shade seeking are popular activities.

"Boy Scouting, one of the traditional membership divisions of the BSA, is available to boys who have earned the Arrow of Light Award and are at least 10 years old or have completed the fifth grade and are at least 10, or who are 11, but not yet 18 years old. The program achieves the BSA's objectives of developing character, citizenship, and personal fitness." cut and paste from nationals web site. http://www.scouting.org/nav/enter.jsp?s=by

communicate communicate communicate this must be a two way street email is the quickest and easiest try to get every email addy of every leader in every pack. Ask them what they are having trouble with then set an agenda to answer their questions. For example leaders of several packs ask about making an outstanding crossover ceremony for their web 2 boys. You get the master showman cubmaster in the district who's ceremonies are renown to come in and share for 15 min and take questions afterwards. Same idea for boring pack meetings. Remember KISMIF applies to adults too just adults don't wa

With us it is the other way around the girl scout wearing her uniform to a scout function scout Sunday several times. Our local scout camp has a reenactment weekend where any scout in uniform is admitted for free. now I would not have her wear uniform to a troop meeting or campout.

The other thing that is a good idea is to save a copy of the requirements you are working on as national seems to alter requirements quite regularly including renumbering. For example my son and several others in his troop are working on camping merit badge for over a year and the requirements that they are working are considerably different than the new ones. Having a copy of the requirements especially when going to a new mb counselor would be in everyones best interest. Not every mb counselor has been around forever and knows the changes made.

"While a First Class Scout, serve actively for 4 months in one or more of the following positions of responsibility (or carry out a Scoutmaster-assigned leadership project to help the troop): Boy Scout troop: Patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, senior patrol leader, troop guide, Order of the Arrow troop representative, den chief, scribe, librarian, historian, quartermaster, bugler, junior assistant Scoutmaster, chaplain aide, instructor." Why is responsibility being assumed to mean leadership is needed. It is for some positions patrol leader, ASPL, SPL,JASM, Troop guide. None

Sponsered by Hezbollah http://www.foxnews.com/# Down the page in the only on Fox section is a brit Hume intro with an onsite report from Lebanon on the Hezbollah sponsered boy scout troop. Including some mock firearm practice. http://n2zgu.50megs.com/LEB.htm This is the main Lebanon scouting page apparently the boy scout groups are fractured along what appear to be religous lines. For your comments.

Greetings from sw Florida I used to live in Perry Florida and was part of Suwannee River Area Council. Spent several cub family camps at Camp Walwood just east of your area.

When I was a Webelos den leader a couple of years ago there were several den members sporting earings one sporting three . His dad was the owner of a tattoo parlor and was decorated to the max. Not my thing but to each his own. We also have an adult in the disrict who wears his kilt with some regularity with class a shirt etc. the boys think it is a hoot. The earing haters need to get past it because the kids are getting them younger and younger the parents encourage them.

" Yah, yah, let's all jump all over da poor SM who clearly is an evil, wicked, awful human being because one boy's parent is upset." Please note these are not my words. The scoutmaster is a sincere hardworking man who really tries hard but is too owerworked to obtain a lot of training and who has the added challenge of two sons in the troop who are as mouthy or more so than my son. The boys apparently enjoy pushing all the adults buttons to the breaking point. And I will own up to the fact that several times his sons have pushed my buttons to the yelling point. Admittadly if the approac

My son has sort of accidently met all the requirements for star rank. He is currently a first class scout in a small troop composed mostly of home schooled kids. He currently has 13 merit badges six eagle required, and is working on three additional mb's with five new cards for winter camp starting December 26. A mb's but one have been earned at council camps ie summer camp winter camp. He is working on Camping, Family Life with his current troop and cycling with another troop in town. He lacks one activity for camping mb rappelling or canoe or cycling. He has already done one of the 15 m

No blue cards then well ouch. How does the 18 year old eagle candidate verify that four troops ago and three states ago he really did complete the first aid merit badge at summer camp his first year in summer camp at 10.5 years old crossing over from a pack in yet another state? Hmmm those blue cards are for those boys protection. He gets to keep a copy. Or at the eagle board he is asked why here on our council ppw it says you completed Emerg. Prep at merit badge univ in october but by our records First aid was not earned until December when your former troop got around to sending your reco

I have heard that one way of measuring the impact of someones life is the number of people that show up at their funeral. Overwhelming a funeral is highly unlikely. What is more likely is that by showing up you will make a statement to someones family that the service they gave and the commitment that they made were not in vain. Even though those same family members may have questioned or even ridiculed that person's comitmant. Go ahead overwhelm them if you can, there is a lesson to be learned. I speak from personal experience when my Grandfather passed a large contingent was there from th

Record two likes here my son actually asked if he could wear them home from the scout shop a first for anything with BSA on it. He has gone to several troop meetings and a fifteen mile bike ride with them on, the legs came off for the bike ride. I like the comfortable fit of not being squeezed into a overly tight pant. The leg thing does take a little getting used to but the kids are used to it the zipoff pants being very popular here in Florida. The pants have belt loops as well so you can wear any belt with them. The color match is also a little off as we had Christmas banquet/ COH last we

Cut and paste from mr Hitchners website http://www.csc.calpoly.edu/~hitchner/ Robert A. Heinlein copyright date of 1973 should tell the tale If you steal from more than one source it isn't plagerism it's research 2 Mottos: * "A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficient

Show up at a scouting unit and make know your willingness to volunteer the proverbial one hour per week and see what happens they may not view you as a prime prospect not having the preferred boy child in your household but sooner or later someone will take you at face value and draft you into a position you will be comfortable with.

Our council rents "our" camp to the young marines for their summer encampment after boy scout summer camp is done. My only contact with the young marines is as a volunteer boy scout rifle rangemaster at their encampment. Young marines is coed and serves a wider age group than boy scouts to include most of our cub age. From 8 years old thru 18. These boys and girls are sharper than the boy scouts at certain things when a adult asks a rhetorical question the response is Sir Yes Sir. Boy scout response more likely to be yup rangemaster. The younger young marines shoot bb guns with gusto and

Already bought and already using my son's and my new switchback pants. When my son asked dad can I wear these out at the scout shop I bought a pair for myself. that is high praise for scout uniform from a twelve year old. His were worn to a regular meeting and today on a fifteen mile bike ride he is working on cycling mb with another local troop. and mine have been worn to a scout meeting and to roundtable where coincidentally some one was making a presentation on uniforming. Gladly testified to the value of my new switchbacks scout pants.

If this is the case why does national make this available? http://www.scouting.org/identity/contents/12.html with this comment; "For your convenience, the following trademarks and signatures files are Macintosh- and PC-compatible. Each file is provided in black-and-white and color versions in both Macintosh and PC formats. This variety of versions and formats will enable you to import the graphics into electronic documents or provide them to vendors producing your support materials."