Scouter99

Yeah, you must live in Bizzarro Scouts. I've never seen a single district or council employee or volunteer at an ECOH in my life, much less heard fundraising efforts at one. There's no BSA-sanctioned script or anything like that for ECoH's, if you don't want them there, you don't have to have them. If the troop leadership is uncomfortable with that, do it at the park. If he's already earned the badge, it's his, and they can't keep it from him or direct who hands it to him or how.

The current insignia guide is always correct and never needs an update. Anyone who claims that their non-standard uniform issue is correct in spite of the IG is by definition wrong, because only the IG determines what it right.

Riddle me this: What's so different about the campaign and expedition that the campaign costs $100 and the expedition only $35?

Yeah, sarcasm. There's a strong anti-national hippie element here I agree and disagree on your point. I strongly agree that every registered leader needs training in his position, and I believe that regardless of his previous life- or scouting experience. I'm a 20-yr vet who never did This is Scouting, IOLS, etc, but when my council required, I went gladly. Eagle Scout doesn't teach me how to run a troop committee, and not even really how to be a SM or ASM, nor a committee chair or treasurer, etc. Was IOLS silly, yeah, but I also learned things. As for older guys who've done this

Courts of Honor are the troop's business, Eagle CoH are the boy's business. There's no national BSA script, requirement, approval, etc. of what is said or done in any court of honor beyond the basic character or safety requirements of any scouting event. Is the Council planning to send a spy to the ceremony? You must live in the worst council on the planet, I have to remember to be less rough when replying to you in the future

I'm thinking of using Story of the Boy Scouts by Wyatt Blassingame as a basic primer when I offer this badge; any opinions on the book? I like it because it acknowledges Seton and Beard's pre-BP roots (though it does neglect to even give events' years with those two while meticulously dating BP's actions).

Serendipity. Eagle Courts of Honor are not a BSA-scripted ceremony; they're whatever you make them and should reflect the things your son values; if that's a druid prayer, that's a druid prayer. If the CO is imposing some kind of rule they have, fine, do it at the closest park and invite the people who aren't morons (less meatballs in your budget, that way, too )

Balderdash! Training is just one more way for ~National~ to destroy Scouting! Any adult male automatically knows best how to run things innately, and doesn't need some suit telling them the best way, harrumph! What scouts need are adults unencumbered by ~best practices~.

Hello, welcome!

I didn't leave the house yesterday; however, it wouldn't have mattered if I did, because despite seeing several posts on Facebook about World Scout Scarf Day, none of them mentioned what it is, so I wouldn't have worn mine out. And, anyway, it's not a "scarf."

I'm still not sure what you're advocating; you say you're not advocating becoming para-military, but that we should put greater emphasis on military skills. How can we get any closer than what we already are in that regard? Your historical couch is also off by several decades; Scouting has denied that it's junior military since its first decade of existence, it's BP who popularized the label "peace scouts."

I like some of them.

Help me with your wording: Did their notebook contain 15 entries but 5 duplicates, or just 5 duplicates? In the case of the former, of course simple ignorance would not be grounds for denying the MB in the first place (though I could very easily see some powerhungry weirdo claiming that).

The part where I lived in a rural area for 2 years and the library had cable. Does the mail run in your rural area? Maybe the service center could mail things to you. The rural area where I lived had mail service, so if yours doesn't I may not understand that part of rural, either.

I use 3 temporary stitches to hold a patch in place; for example, for a council strip, one on each corner and one in the middle of the bottom. I agree with you on pins, Schiff; too difficult with the thick goop plastic backing. Sometimes just getting the needle through is almost impossible.

See, that's a pizza party. Nothing ruins the appeal of a pizza party like hot-n-ready from Little Caesar's.

He's going to extract DNA from the blood in the bug's gut and produce a clone, muahahahaaaa

Does the Scout Law guide you to tell people to "pound sand"? Did the Scout Law also guide you to make a(n ignorant) dig at my (incorrectly supposed) lack of experience? Did it also guide you to equate proper uniforming to adult-led troop theory? No, I think far from "the Scout Law made me do it" you have a case of "the Devil made me do it." I'm having a bit of fun poking at your crass defense of an improper practice. I am a dedicated contrarian. If the Scout Law has guided you to drop it, though, I'm happy to oblige.

"Old school" is relative. American scouts didn't adopt neckerchiefs until the second decade of the organization, and in the 50s-70s (maybe before, but I don't have Uniform Guides from then) the necktie was the adult neck adornment. While neckerchiefs were always native to British scouts, BP wore a tie (in photos, he's always in a tie; in paintings/sculptures he's in a neckerchief). You can get the green ties (which I would call old school) on eBay pretty reasonably priced (more reasonable, I think, for a 40-yr-old piece of history than what you pay for even a cheap tie in a dept store nowa

What's the difficulty of just wearing the thing the way you're supposed to.

Your troop members sound as childish as you. You haven't the faintest idea how my troop is run just as you hadn't the faintest idea how long I've been with scouting. But don't let a 2-for-2 ignorance spree stop you from a 3rd misguided defense of your tacky tradition.

Boys who filled notebooks with 5 samples of the same tree are not victims, they are complicit liars; keeping the badge from them is not misdirected punishment that belonged to adults, it's justice. That is precisely why the new Guide to Advancement procedure prescribes a conference with the boy to help him see where the problem lies when he accepts credit for work he knows he didn't do.

Ok, so it's still up to you to get the application fee, the voucher is just a sort of notice to the council that money has changed hands?

Yeah, wow.