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  1. Saltface
    What does the G2SS say about terrorists?
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    Does this mean there is also a Protect Yourself Rules merit badge in the works? You were at the BSA national meeting, everything said there gets a positive reception from the attendees. My two cents is to make it required but please, please, please don't make it an adventure.
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    And those who have heard it before couldn't sing past "Day is done, gone the sun..." before starting to mumble.
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    Frequently, we separate the canton from the stripes and the stripes from each other. The symbolism is that the stripes (colonies) can be divided but the canton (union) should never be divided. If we have a large number of flags to retire, we might do this with just the first one and retire the others intact in a dignified way ...by burning as specified by Flag Code. Can we start arguing about the proper way to conduct a flag ceremony now?
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    @MattR I don’t trust the average journalist to get the technical details right, but a “makeshift slingshot” sounds more like an onager, ballista, or water balloon launcher to me. If the scout were blinded in one eye, I think his lawyer would have harped on it: “disability, injuries, and disfigurement.” But what do I know? The full details of these kinds of events are seldom made public knowledge. I don’t understand your trebuchet. Why was your throwing arm being stretched?
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    https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/Outdoor Program/pdf/30931_WB.pdf It's on pgs. 99-101 but don't read it. Doing so will only bring sorrow.
  7. Saltface
    Clearly, we need to update the sports merit badge. Playing baseball without full face helmets, safety goggles, and flak jackets is just too dangerous.
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    I think most countries retire the flag through incineration (eg. Mexico, Argentina, UK). The hard part about finding flag protocol for other countries is that it's usually in another language. Argentina has a pretty robust flag code. Google translate butchers the text but you can get the idea: https://translate.google.com.ar/translate?hl=en&sl=es&u=http://www.gob.gba.gov.ar/legislacion/legislacion/l-14438.html&prev=search. Trivia: they applaud the flag instead of saluting it when it passes. If I remember correctly, the US flag folding pattern is by custom, not by law.
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    Makes sense. We always launch lemons out of our trebuchet. I believe aiming them at other patrols would be frowned upon.
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    Careful, you're approaching blasphemous territory. At one time, merit badges were specifically about proficiency. From the Jan. 1913 Boys Life: https://books.google.com/books?id=3JVqekZbzz8C&lpg=PP1&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false (page 16) Personally, I'd rather a Scout be an expert at all the requirements up to First Class than have two silver palms.
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    Shade is another big issue on this mountain. There isn't a lick of it on Sunset Trail once the sun has cleared the ridgeline. Actually, there is one tree. A SAR friend of mine refers to it as the death tree because that's where they always find the unfortunates.
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    This Scout was a football player. 94 degrees isn't that hot after practicing in 115 degree weather. Previously, I thought they had all run out of water before summiting. If he was tanking and water wasn't helping, he needed electrolytes (rest wouldn't hurt, either). Water just sloshes around in your stomach at that point. I carry an MRE drink pouch in my first aid kit for that reason. Cool kids carry those salt vials that runners use.
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    That aptly describes the jamboree towers on scoutpioneering.com. I don't think my scouts would have stuck with it if that's what they were building.
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    We recently took part in a district camporee building 20' towers. It was awesome but I don't understand how our DE went along with it. Yes, the adults climbed it first to make sure it was safe. The boys made various pioneering structures at four consecutive meetings leading up to the event to verify everyone had the knots and lashings down pat. That website makes references to making towers over 6' but I don't understand how that is allowed.
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    I've also heard people are often too squeamish to perform rescue breaths and chest compressions alone are much better than nothing.
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    The most common trail to the summit isn't very long but it's really steep, almost more of a scramble than a hike until you reach the saddle. There's a steel cable handrail that you use almost continuously (placed decades ago by none other than the boy scouts). When you're heaving just to get enough oxygen, drinking water feels like a burden. It's even worse trying to suck it out of a tube. If they finished all their water before getting to the top, I wonder how much they had. I hope this tragedy doesn't discourage other troops from visiting the mountain. Picacho Peak is home to some quirk
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    I've seen it plenty of times as part of the scoring at district camporees. Our council camps have a 100% uniform award at summer camp. There are two kinds of troops here: those that win that ribbon every year and those that don't even try. As for inspections during troop meetings, I've never seen it done.
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    Is there a link?
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    I really wish Alaska had been split into three states of equal size so that Texas could be the biggest one.
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    I wonder if the venue was selected for a friendly jury or just because it was local for the Girl Scouts.
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    We use a local Frisbee golf course for this requirement. There are enough trees, washes, and other obstacles that the baskets/control points are out of sight and require the occasional boxing. If you want to increase the difficulty, you can give the scouts a map and a list of coordinates and make them determine the bearing and distance. The bearing and distance lists that comprise most scout orienteering courses aren't terribly useful in the real world. CalTopo is pretty nice. Store.USGS.gov has more data, but you'll either need a plotter or familiarity with Photoshop/Acrobat to prin
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    Are you proposing that an EBOR should be <gasp> more than a "celebration"? https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2018/11/07/an-eagle-scout-board-of-review-isnt-a-job-interview-its-a-celebration/
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    Sounds like a prospect list.
  24. Saltface
    That’s either a personal interpretation or he was concealing his true reason. I’ve never met anyone that felt that way. What I was hoping to communicate with my original response is that I would prefer to go to the Oath and Law for guidance over the GSS for a question like this. In other words, “Teach them correct principles and [let them] govern themselves.”
  25. Saltface
    I'm going to put the Church of Jesus Christ retention rate at 10%. I see an increasing amount of apathy towards BSA involvement, even among those who have been quite enthusiastic about the program in the past. On the adult side, my council reorganized into LDS and community districts last year after the announcement. Every month since, the attendance at roundtable has continuously and visibly dropped. I don't think there were 50 people present this month. Volunteers that three months ago were planning to form a few new troops have since scrapped the idea. As for the youth, many of the Var
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