SFmike

OK so the Silver Award is the highest Venturing Award, So What's your point? THe Ranger Award is harder to earn than the Silver is... How about the Sea Scout Quartermaster Award? If Sea Scouts are a part of Venturing and Sea Scouts are one of five specialty areas of Venturing, isn't the Quartermaster Award then a Specialty Award under the Venturing Silver Award? Why does the Quartermaster Award rate a knot and not the Ranger, Quest or any other specialty award? SFMike

The Quartermaster Award may be the toughest award to earn, but it is not an award that the usual Venturer would try for. My point was that of the awards that my crew members had experienced, the Ranger award was the hardest. SFMike

emb021, The arrogance, IMO, lied with the Commissioner, a stranger to the boys, who stepped in to "their" ceremony and started pointing out errors or perceived errors on their part. If he had any tact, he would have quietly pointed out any errors or uniform problems to the SM and let him make corrections at an appropriate time. My son was not a smart___, but he did stand up for himself. He felt that the World Crest was a proper uniform adornment, but that the World Conservation Award also included the World Crest and conveyed a message beyond that of the World Crest. He wore the V

There are a number of Eagle Scouts that I have encountered who are fine, knowledgable Eagle Scouts and there are some who are "Paper Eagles". One of these, "Wes", came to our troop as a 16 year old Second Class Scout from his fourth troop. His dad immediately offered himself as an ASM. Dad was told to complete "Fast Start" and "Adult Leader Training" and then we would talk to him about being an ASM. Wes had a session on knots that first night and completed his last requirement for First Class. He asked about merit badges and was given a council merit badge counselors list and an e

My crew wears the green shirt/grey shorts traditional Venturing uniform. My question is do the youth wear knot awards or patches for their awards? Example One - Chris (age 20) is an Eagle Scout, was a Cub Scout with the Arrow of Light Award, earned the Hornaday Award and The Honor Award as a Boy Scout. He was awarded the Explorer G.O.L.D. Award and as a Venturer, he has been awarded the Silver Award, The Ranger Award, and the Venturing Leadership Award. What knots does he wear? Mike

My (then) 11 year old son was at his Court of Honor to receive his Star Rank when a Commissioner announced that he wanted to inspect the troop. This commissioner went up and down the ranks pointing out uniform errors to the Scoutmaster. These were mostly very minor such as an out of date Quality Unit Award patch and a boy wearing his three year pin without the colored plastic backing. When he got to my son, he mentioned that my boy was wearing a Boy Scout Conservation Award patch where the International Scouting emblem belonged. My son replied that the Boy Scout Conservation Award incl

I have been a Venturing Advisor since the program began in 1998. I started with a crew of 12 youth (7 females and 5 males)and had five youth attain the Silver Award and seven attain the Ranger Award in August 1999. All five of the male members of my crew were Eagle Scouts. By far, the concensus of the crew was that the Ranger Award was the most difficult to earn of all of the Scouting awards (Eagle Scout GSUSA Gold Award, and Silver Award). SFMike