InquisitiveScouter

The corruption begins... 😜

Every time there was an aviation (or other major) accident in the Air Force, there were two investigations...a Safety Investigation Board (SIB) and an Accident Investigation Board (AIB). The SIB is first, and looks at every detail to determine causal factors and get the word out to operators and maintainers as fast as possible to prevent the mishap from occurring again. SIB reports are not releasable to the public. (Some of them are quite grisly...photos, autopsies, cockpit recordings, etc...) Then an AIB convenes, and covers the same ground. They only get a piece of the report from t

If BSA ever releases that kind of info, the devil's abode will become a lake of ice

$50...there is only one registration type. That $50 is the annual registration type... Which reminds me...that fee should be pro-rated by the month...so, if there are only six months left in the registration year, then it would be $45/2 = $22.50 plus the $5 insurance fee (not pro-rated) = $27.50 for a six month registration.

And you can easily spend more than 50 hours during the week Scouting... plus full commitment on weekends. But really, just give the time you have, and all will be well. I know some who eat, breathe, and sleep Scouting. It is all they do, kind of an obsession...

Of course, that depends you how much time you spend doing it 😜 Just to register here is $45 national membership fee plus $5 insurance. So, $50. (This includes the BSA's background check...you don't have to pay for that.) Then add uniforms, gear, fuel, food costs, training, time, heartache, etc., and the price tag can be about $1000 per year easily... Now, your unit committee should be willing to help defray some of those costs. Here, I pay for my own uniforms and food. Required training is reimbursed by the unit. Time and heartache are compensated for through the joy of watchin

Matt, welcome! As @SSScoutastutely points out, the best definition of "boy-led" is them making the decisions. This will be the hardest part for you to accept. Let them make the decisions about what to do. Now, they cannot make informed decisions, unless they are informed. That's where you come in...become the "expert" Scouter, and inform them of the program opportunities out there. Recommend you focus first on going camping. A camping trip per month, if you can. In the lead up to the camping trip, have them divided into patrols for program planning, gear assembly, menu plan

So, I've been thinking a little more about all this, and asking myself why the National Commissioner (NC) does not seem to fill the role? So, I read an article about the NC https://blog.scoutingmagazine.org/2021/07/13/scott-sorrels-bsas-national-commissioner-discusses-the-organizations-next-steps/?utm_source=scoutingwire&utm_campaign=swvolunteer7212021&utm_medium=email&utm_content= With particular note on the last section of the article: -------------------------------------------------------- The path ahead The leadership is in place for the BSA to step up

As you eat this menu of annelids (you know...a Diet of Worms), when digested, would you mind giving us a synopsis, please??

I have personally coordinated completion of our last three charter agreements. Much of the time, we didn't even have a DE, so the Field Director was grateful for my walking the document around and working the Charter Agreement signatures. I'll wait until our recharter goes through at council before I work the next one. Yes, our council registrar has renewed unit charters without a new Charter Agreement in hand...don't know how they can do this, but they do it.

This is exactly what we did just last fall in changing CO's. Get it in writing, and no one can really argue otherwise...

Are you with a Methodist Church?? If yes, then they are not renewing charters just yet, but extending them until March 2022 (I think)

Like this?? Cool enough for you @Eagledad?? 😜 And, yes, that is the idea...a few weeks at different summer camps each week...much more exposure that way...

Bingo. And buy TSLA

OK, some initial thoughts, but many of these would have to be fleshed out, so take them with a grain of salt... Need: No, the Scouts don't need a Chief Scout, per se, but they do need an advocate who THOROUGHLY understands the program and remembers what the adventure is all about, and looks at things through that lens. The Chief Scout is more like the nation's Scoutmaster. BSA may not need a Chief Scout, but they sure do have an image, professional reputation, and PR problem, which they have not been able to solve for decades (?) Having a Chief Scout could be a positive.

An adult...

LOL! I had written quite a treatise to answer your request for requirements/duties/etc., but my scouter.com editor went wonky on me... I'll spend some time and write them again... Definitely should be a contributor to the Scout Handbook! As a Scout's Scout, the Chief Scout would bring the eye and viewpoint of someone who has been "in the trenches" with the manual, and make it more approachable and readable. (Should also contribute to MB's and awards requirements, where Chief Scout has particular knowledge first, and then from the viewpoint of the Scout's Scout for other MB's...)

Right now, a Scout can complete requirements for Scout through First Class concurrently, although the ranks must be earned in order. That is, technically, one could finish all the requirements for First Class before finishing the requirements for Scout rank. But, the youth will not be awarded First Class until earning Second Class. Theoretically, a Scout could earn all these ranks at the exact same time, having saved a single Scout rank requirement as the very last one to complete. This practice produces less than desirable results...but that is another post. Hope this h

Transformational...hmmm 1. Want quality local leaders? Find a way to incentivize it. The program is sufficiently complex that, to do it well requires more time and knowledge than the average group of people can devote as volunteers. Imagine a sort of professional Scoutmaster/teacher role... 2. Council and National senior position term limits. Five years as SE (etc.) and then out. Would require looking at career progression and making some sense of this. Maybe board limits, too, but probably a longer term. 3. Subsidize costs of adult training and support. (see #1) (Lea

Yes, you are very likely correct. My gut says another likely scenario is that the bankruptcy fails due to negative votes of claimants, judge not ordering a cramdown, and existing lawsuits (currently on hold) proceeding (with more likely to be filed) after the Chapter 11 proceedings are abandoned. Chapter 7 is definitely still a contender, sooner rather than later. Two to three years maybe... If Chapter 7, then what for the 200+ separate corporate council entities? Corporations without a united identity...will a coalition of a few powerful band together to form a more perfect union

So, Genesis 18:16 is the start of that story...and Abraham pled mercy from God to not destroy it if 50/45/40/30/20/10 righteous in the city could be found. God continually relented and agreed if ten could be found, he would not destroy it. Abraham did not plead lower than that. God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah. So, I'm having a little trouble with the analogy to your situation. Do you see yourself as Abraham, pleading with God on behalf of the city? Or do you see yourself as one of the ten (or the one), on whose account the city will be saved? Not to put too fine a point o

Why, yes, I could do that. Would prefer to do it with a musk ox, though, as we have those in Alaska...

And at least my wife thinks I'm handsome...

I'd do it. And I have the pedigree, the time, and a healthy dose of skepticism when dealing with the professional side 😜 Cover my expenses for travel, meals, accommodations, uniforms, etc. to fulfill the role, and I'm in...

Not if you are shot out of a cannon!! Enough initial velocity, and you could wrap around that bar no problem...of course, the force required to get to that velocity would probably injure the rider... Now, to help that kid in the video, he had the counterweight on top...no such thing on the chain swing...