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They aren’t teams, they are patrols. They aren’t junior scouts, they are scouts or new scouts. They aren’t lead by an ASM, but by a PL and a troop guide. It’s been awhile, 31 years, I suggest reading the PL, SPL, and SM (Unit Leader) handbooks again. Words matter.

This doesn't much sound like Scouts. Why not put the skills into practice in their current patrols on the normal upcoming campouts?

Again, I’m guessing this is local. All units in our council are 4 digits. Most, not all boy troops start with a 1, some with a 2. Most packs are 4, some start 3. All crews start with a 9. Ships I’ve seen start with 1. Almost all girl troops start with a 6, but one starts with a 1.

In your council. Our council the packs, boy troop, girl troops, and crews all have different numbers.

Thanks so much for the educated and diverse perspective. You are probably pretty unique to be a vigil, who has gone so far as attend NOACs, and been a firecrafter and experienced camp with micosay. Very neat. You reinforced my assumptions about micosay.

The midwest camps I’ve attended don’t “do” footlockers. It is a “funny”, to me, regional thing.

No, there is a change. The outside groups that do their own range safety still are stopped. That is a real change.

Stand downs are very standard in the area of industrial construction I work. If there is an injury or serious near miss, a stand down is issued. Initial facts are gathered and any prudent immediate follow up is taken before restarting. For very serious incidents, sometimes multiple common sites are on stand down until imitate follow-up is understood or complete.

@ThenNow Thank you for sharing the darkest moments anyone can imagine, but in the post, and in past ones. It provides perspective that many don't have. I kept wondering what you were thinking and if you had sworn off this site for good. Keep on, keeping on.

Sounds like a healthy system. How long are your backpacking prep-trips?

Where at the site? All I could find were 2022 documents.

I was only looking for a couple last week, but I did buy my daughter horsemanship and it was Scouting America branded.

Now, all we need is the Scouts to read them!

2 (?) counties of the UP were part of it. They were merged with Hiawatha district of Bay-Lakes before Hiawatha was transferred to Michigan Crossroads. It just seemed to make sense sense from a UP of Michigan completeness, but now it makes more sense.

@jcousino I was going to say the same, but it is so neat.

Well, not always. They do have full veto, but on some volunteers, that have had lets say a DUI, it is up to the COR to approve after council does the background check and says "well, it is up to the COR". Not common, but it does happen.

This is a good point. It is treated like a mini day of summer camp.

Our district has the option to earn 1 or 2. I’m involved as an archery MCA ONLY so scouts can complete partials from camp. I think that is a good service for the Scouts where the others MBs are not good scouting. In my youth, there were no MBs at camporees nor were there merit badge universities.

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Nice look! They forgot to mention I’ll be 50 as well.

Thanks for sharing. It is sad. I can’t help with STEM days or other merit badge days for the same reason. I can’t be a part of going through the motions, but not earning the badge.

Good observation.

From discord; Freezing temps overnight, 6+ inches of heavy slush, another inch of freezing rain, 100ish collapsed tents (with people stuck inside), 50+ sent to hospitals, an official designation as a mass casualty event, and responses from local, county and state emergency services

It is my understanding that the summit was the site of a mountain top mining where the tailings were used to fill the valleys and create the open untreed areas. So, the Korean Jamboree was the second?

This is a national rule. There isn’t a national term limit, but each term is only 1 year. Each year, all district and council positions must be renominated and approved. Often a rubber stamp, but not always. https://filestore.scouting.org/filestore/regions/central/PDF/District Nominating Committee Worksheet.pdf Here is the council one. https://www.scouting.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Highlights-of-Council-Governance.pdf