mgood777

I've just about exceeded my rant quota on my first day of posting so I shouldn't even start on that subject or y'all will think all I do is gripe. But . . . The adults ran our Lodge Boy Scout Troops are supposed to be run by the Patrol Leaders Council. I've seen more adult-run Troops than youth-run Troops. The Lodge is supposed to be run by the Executive Committee, all members of which are under 21. These are experienced Scouts who've held leadership positions in their troops and I'm sure many of them have fought the adult/youth battle for control. So they should come to Executive Committe

Old thread, I know, but this is something that strikes a nerve with me. When I was Senior Patrol Leader (30 years ago ) we had a Troop Committee Chairman who would sometimes bring his Cub Scout age son on Boy Scout campouts. He was a distraction. Dad would go drink coffee with the other adults while Junior ran loose. I spent 50% of my time babysitting. "Jeremy don't do that. . . Jeremy, be quite. . . Jeremy, if you hit him with that stick and he punches you, I'm gonna laugh. And I'll tell you dad to SHOVE IT if he says anything to me or to him!" The problem was the parent. Not taking

My lodge started doing early ceremonies in the eighties, while I was still a youth member. The youth membership, the Lodge Executive Committee, and the ceremonies team were against it. The reasoning was that the new Ordeal members needed a good meal after working on little food all day. Brotherhood ceremony was after Ordeal ceremony. The dining hall crew (made up of adults) didn't want to be still cleaning up at 1:00 am. Several times we suggested having the Brotherhood ceremony before dinner, if that would help. But the men in the dining hall wanted to go to the Brotherhood ceremony, so the

Interesting. When was this? All PhilStaff wore uniforms from their home units if they had them. There were some who showed up without a uniform, and female staff members who had no uniform. Most of these people just wore the staff polo shirt with the uniform shorts. If they wore the "Class A" shirt, they bought one off the rack at the trading post, hung the Philmont Staff Arrowhead from the right pocket, pinned their name tag to it, put on red shoulder loops and called it a day. We had the option of wearing either the staff shirt or the Scout uniform shirt, whichever we wanted (or whicheve

Most wore the tan shirts. You'd occasionally see someone in the dark green shirt. Here's an example. This was a pic from 1987 that I posted in another thread. I was a camper that year. Our Ranger, the guy directly behind the sign, is a 19 year old staff member. You can see the Eagle badge on his pocket in the photo. Edited to add: Me and guys from my troop wearing our illegal red and white striped shoulder loops that we'd worn ever since the uniforms with epaulets came out I caught some flak for those when I wore them as a staff member the following year, so I just stopped wearing the

I never wore the Eagle badge on my pocket. My Eagle Board of Review was a week before I turned 18. The Court of Honor was several months after I was 18. I was an Assistant Scoutmaster and promptly put the red/white/blue knot on my uniform. (For the Court of Honor, I did wear a youth uniform that I had saved for that occasion which still had the Life Scout rank on the pocket and Senior Patrol Leader badge of office, pictured in my avatar. That uniform was retired when I took it off later that day.) When I worked at Philmont, most of the staff were 18+. Most of the male staffers were Eagle S

I never owned a hat from the Boy Scout National Supply until I went to Wood Badge where we had to wear them. I always have baseball cap type hats from various camps or troops or events I've been part of. I wear them to keep the sun off my nose and out of my eyes If I'm going to be outdoors. If we're getting really rough, backpacking or canoeing or other activities likely to mess up whatever you bring, I have a very old, disreputable looking troop cap left over from the eighties (formerly red, now faded pink). It has a lot of miles on it. If I'm going to be mostly indoors, I don't even bring

When I was District Advancement Chairman, I went to a lot of Eagle Courts of Honor. I bought one of the poly/wool uniforms just for that and didn't put any knots on it. I wore my two medals, Eagle Scout and Scouters Training Award, pinned to the shirt. I'd occasionally break it out for a council annual banquet or something like that. For pretty much everything else, I wore other shirts with knots but no medals. I like the idea of medals sized - uniformly - so that five will fit neatly above the pocket. But I don't have enough to worry about it. Not telling anyone else what to do, but i

Crew photo from that same trip. That's me on the bottom right.

Yeah, I had the hair, lol. I thought I was the rock'n'roll Boy Scout. This was taken in 1987 at Philmont. I wore this getup to the campfire one night. My Scoutmaster told me to dress just like that the next day. He wanted to get a picture of me but had the wrong filter on his camera or something or other. So all morning I was posing and trying to look cool, just waiting for him to take my pic. He ignored me and never went near his camera. When I was trying to get the fire going, down on my knees blowing in it, he says "Hey, Goodwin!" I looked up and he got me. I look angry, but that was smoke

I found this hanging in my closet. It seems to have shrunk

I'm just getting back into it. I grew up in a Boy Scout troop and think it's a fantastic program. Being a lifelong procrastinator, I got my Eagle a week or so before my eighteenth birthday. I was an 18 year old Assistant Scoutmaster, a 19 year old District Advancement Chairman, then a 21 year old District Commissioner. By the time I was 25 or so, I was working most weekends and lots of evenings and it was just not possible to do anything with Scouting. I gave it up. That was in the mid-nineties. So around twenty years later, here I am back. Happy Easter Mike