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40 minutes ago, DannyG said:

Is it worth adding my youth member ID to my profile?

Do you have it? Did you earn eagle at the time it would have been in use?

On 7/3/2023 at 10:28 AM, OaklandAndy said:

Either way, it's a great incentive for summer camps! 

It really is. Our scouts have been so proud of their medals and have worked hard to get to the next level. 

5 hours ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

everything would transfer as you move from council to council

For Scouts, that works decently well with Scoutbook. For adults, training will "sync" between ID's. You may have to wait with an old id as primary for 24 hours, then switch and wait another 24. It is getting better. The issue is that the number changes between councils and it is so so easy to have more than one. 

5 hours ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

If there is a way to merge numbers, can someone please share the directions? I have at least 5, possibly 6 if national issues their employees ID numbers,  and I would love to merge them all..

Not merge, but manage. They used to allow merge. I assume merge lead to complicated auditing situations that they didn't set the software up for. 

Go to my.scouting and choose manage member ID. Look up the other "yous" and add them. Set your current id as primary. 

The numbers suck and need to be fixed. If I was a BSA IT manager, I’d see it as key. 
 

They don’t carry over between councils. That sucks. I was able to look myself up under Eagle Scouts and found my old number from my old council. It hadn’t been used since about 1996. It has both my eagle and my more recent life time NESA tied to it. 

Our commissioner just posted that "Membership renewals will be completed either by credit card with a 12-month renewal payment from the individual, by a Scout unit that has elected “Unit will pay all our members renewals” option, or by a manual payment at a Council Service Center." So, a tiny bit more info on the options. Nothing new other than this line. 

3 hours ago, Mrjeff said:

this is a common reaction to the current state of the BSA

Hummmm…. all scouting is local. Not all all around here. Our troops and cub units are growing.

Mike Walton covers this on his page. It can be worn due to the permission granted not being revoked. Also, it is a program of many councils. http://www.scoutinsignia.com/medals.htm

Not giving an excuse, but it seemed like on the district level they seemed cautious, even for a guy with 3 kids, to make sure you weren’t a flash in the pan. I think sometimes they have people come in guns a blazin and then they take on stuff and fall through. 

3 hours ago, Armymutt said:

Like I said, it wasn't until someone decided that their personal identity was more important than Scouting that we had issues.

Tell that to the people who were kicked out for being “outed” outside of scouting. 

12 minutes ago, Armymutt said:

I don't recall race or sexual orientation ever being a part of any Scouting discussion 30 years ago. 

Unless you were a gay leader. Then you were considered not morally straight and kicked out. Or if you were a gay parent, then you were very much made to not feel welcomed to volunteer.

The good old days? I think not. 

3 hours ago, Eagle94-A1 said:

Sadly the BSA has pushed and pushed Eagle.

It is so sad. They renamed the big zip to something like “<someone’s name> Eagle Taking Flight” or something like that. Ugh. 

Scouts notice the over focus too. 

36 minutes ago, Mrjeff said:

These rules appear to be another attempt to insulate the BSA from future problems.

Actually as @MikeS72 said, this is due to past problems. I too have read many of the case files that were released a few years back by a law firm. Many involved the abused Scout going over to an adults house outside of a Scout activity. 

20 hours ago, dk516 said:

To be fully transparent, the Background Check for adults is a separate fee ($30) paid directly to the background check service provider when renewing. 

Our council must have enough cookie revenue as our troops don’t have to even pay that. 
 

I was a troop leader for about a year. I got to do their “recharter” which took <5 mins online. 
 

Also! Our council camps use campdoc and allow fully electronic med forms. 

My wife just re-uped my middle daughter’s troop.
 

Scout: $25/scout national dues, $5 local. 
Adult: $25 only 

6 hours ago, AwakeEnergyScouter said:

How much current is too much?

Anything above 0?

23 hours ago, Eva said:

NO ONE KNEW ABOUT THE DISCONTINUED MEDAL

Did you read the post right before yours?

4 hours ago, pshuf said:

one with a simple pin back and one with a post and clutch back

When you say "simple pin back", what do you mean?

1 hour ago, UKScouterInCA said:

they are replacing the old janky medal with something more impressive

My bet is that they are restocking with a new medal of equal janky’ness from a different supplier. 

5 hours ago, scoutldr said:

The days of the King actually commanding troops on the battlefield are long gone. 

Harry did some real soldiering. 

6 hours ago, BetterWithCheddar said:

I've also been part of a camp staff that elected to wear green tabs to promote Venturing because we were all registered members of the same Crew.

This is no longer an acceptable Venturing uniform (tan with venturing green loops). You’d all have to wear the green venturing shirts. 

Nice program! 

14 hours ago, UKScouterInCA said:

I would way prefer to see a Scout earn this than every merit badge.

I agree 100%. Such a true and accomplished Scout would / would have earned this medal. 

29 minutes ago, jscouter1 said:

Would it be appropriate to wear silver shoulder loops because I am registered with the council as a volunteer employee?

It would best to ask your camp what they want from a uniform uniform policy. Some councils want to emphasize that their staff is made up of unit scouts / scouters, so then no. 
 

I’d say sure, but you would need to remove your unit numbers and position patch. I’d then get a camp staff position patch. 

57 minutes ago, MattR said:

In summary, as RS said, they have a plan, (Mosby has a plan to increase membership) don't worry ... but nobody could honestly distill this plan down to a 20 minute presentation

One would have thought they would have been working on the plan when not in court and would have unleashed this at the meeting. Instead, they unleashed the fee increases. 😞