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And he would be correct. As far as the BSA is concerned, he is the owner of the pack. This is one of the reasons why self-chartered organizations are frowned upon. You need to discuss the situation with your DE. Look into creating a new unit and then have all the parents fill out transfer apps. The whole thing will be a royal pain, with lots and lots of paperwork to create a new unit and transfer everybody, but it can be done. You might even be able to keep your same unit number ... maybe .... Good Luck!

"I guess the heads will bight you if you are not carefull." nyuk nyuk nyuk

Personally, I don't think it matters one whit what the uniform police think. The only thing that matters is what your son thinks of his uniform. If he takes pride in wearing it, you've made a solid choice. "Obviously the blue trimmed one is for commie-democrats like me and the gold-trimmed one is for the Imperial New World Order wing of the BSA." Hmmmm .... I may need to switch mine out ....

"I don't see anything in the US Flag code to support his teachings or yours. That's what I'm trying it find is what is right according to the US government." Keep in mind that a color guard is a military formation. You will not find military procedures in a set of civilian laws. Air Force Manual 50-14 (now known as 36-2203) and Army Field Manual 22-5 will both have information about color guards. There is also a Naval equivalent to the above publications, but since I'm not a Navy guy I have no clue what it is. Rest assured there will be differences between the Naval and A/AF tradi

"But the Scouting.org is the second absolute worse search engine ..." Unfortunately, the absolute worst one is at scoutstuff.org "For example if you are looking for Bear den plans, you would type in the following bear den plan and "scouting.org"" Try the site keyword instead ... bear den plan site:scouting.org The site keyword will limit the search to that one and only website. Please note the colon following the keyword. And I would also omit the www and just use the domain name.

"Tilted forward to let the flag fall slightly. " The US flag is held upright at all times by the color guard. Sometimes a bit difficult to do by the younger scouts ...

"No ceremony or beads yet.....Just sayin......." In our neck of the woods, we tell the TG when and where we want the beading ceremony. Have you spoken to your TG about this?

When I'm doing district training, I usually like to ask the participants why they are there. Over the years, I've heard quite a few different answers. There are quite a number of leaders that decided to attended leader training because it was a requirement for the knot. I've never bothered to keep count, so I don't know the percentage. But if we get one more trained leader because there is a knot, then I say the program was a success!

Our council publishes the financials. But as the previous poster noted, check out www.guidestar.org ...

Definitely not normal. My response, once I realized he was serious and thus stopped laughing at him, would be to congratulate him on having enough volunteers .... "I'm not sure who you call about this." A reporter?

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I'm having the same issues. Not only those two websites but also yourpagestats.com and some website from Poland. I was not able to get access to scouter.com until I turned off javascript. A pain, as I need to reenable it for other websites.

My experience is quite a bit different from those above, especially where the adult scouters are concerned. For the most part, youth members tend to wear the flap that was the current flap when they did their ordeal. But you will also see a variety of flaps, usually purchased from ebay, that are considered "cool" flaps. I've seen no consideration of having attended the event, nor of even being a scout at the time. Only the looks of the flap matter. Interestingly enough, this also seems to apply to council CSPs. On rare occasion, I've also seen scouts wearing a CSP from a neighbor

You might give national a call and see if they will email you a list ... 972-580-2000

"You must be a "leadership" word games expert." An ad hominem attack? Let's look at it from another perspective. How many students, after attending driver's education, never again exceed the speed limit? 1 in 1,000? 1 in 10,000? 1 in 100,000? Should we then do away with driver's education courses? Hardly, because even though they exceed the speed limit, the participants are still much safer drivers as a result. Just because WB doesn't meet someone's definition of perfect is no reason to condemn the whole course. The participants are in a position to be better s

"The question is how many Wood Badge participants return from Wood Badge and train their Patrol Leaders to space their Patrols 300 feet apart, and lead their Patrols on separate Patrol Hikes (if only during Troop campouts)?" Apparently if you don't like the answer, then change the question? LOL Your new question really isn't a WB question. The problem with WB isn't the material, but rather the participants. Many participants attend not to learn, but to earn a set of beads. I think TAHAWK explains it quite well. The problems facing units has nothing to do with Wood Badge. I look a

Kudu writes: "Maybe he will be the first person in the history of the Internet to bring back to his unit Wood Badge Patrols spaced B-P's 300 feet apart, and adult-free WB Patrol Hikes." Can't speak for other WB courses, but that is the way mine was run. Each patrol was spaced and camped quite a distance apart, easily 300 feet apart. And the patrol hike was just that: just the members of our patrol.

"Yes, if you google the term "first class first year", you come up with a handful of references from scouting sites, but not from BSA itself." http://www.google.com/search?q=first+class+first+year+site%3Ascouting.org I get 425 results when I google it .... "Again, from my own personal perspective, I just don't see or hear anything about it in my council." I guess that would make me envious. Around here, FCFY is all the rage and is considered a selling point when recruiting Webelos. From my perspective, I don't see how you can call yourself boy-led and have a well-oile

"Last year my council started requiring that parents agree to the following in order for their scout to participate in the sale:" The risk of loss is with the council. And I have serious doubts as to whether such an agreement would be enforceable. All the same, I would not sign that, or any other, agreement in order to participate.

"Curious, I would be mad they wasted money on renting a movie theater....How are the condition of your camps?????? I wonder is your council in a rich suburban area?????? Three of the council camps are in excellent condition, while the fourth one needs some work. It was built in the '20s ... a fact confirmed upon entering one of the latrines! 8-O The council services about a dozen counties encompassing close to 10,000 sq miles. Naturally, we have both suburban and rural areas. We have both rich areas, as well as inner-city and dirt-farmer poor. We volunteers get hit up for FOS

As a COR you also have a seat (as well as a vote) on the district committee. You could always show up and return the favor ...

"The kick off meeting normally happens at a local church hall. There is no cost to the Council. " Around here they rent out a local movie theatre (several actually) and put on quite the dog and pony show. ""I'm in a large council, so we have multiple warehouses throughout the area. There is also freight costs in getting all of that popcorn delivered to mine and your council." Trails End pays this." Trails End pays it? Well, sorta .... but they include the cost in that 70% number printed on the packaging. Which was my original point that you need to consider ALL costs when

"my council doesn't take the 70% profit and split it 35%-35%. It is more like a 40%-30% split with the 40% going to the council. I would be more agreeable to get on board if this was reversed, with the 40% going to the unit." Is it really a 70% profit? Are you including ALL costs? There are prizes and incentives for selling, as well as different sales contests. There is all of those sample prizes that are passed out, as well as all of the marketing and promotional literature that is printed. Did you have a kickoff meeting somewhere? That building had to be rented. Where do you pick

Well, if speaking with the park ranger didn't help, you could try contacting the BSA council that serves that area. It looks to be Buffalo Trails Council. Although, Yucca Council looks like it might be closer to the park. http://www.buffalotrailbsa.org/ http://www.yuccabsa.org/ Maybe someone on staff could provide more knowledge about camping in the park. Good luck with your efforts!

You might try contacting the park itself and discussing your concerns. The contact information is on their website: http://www.nps.gov/bibe/index.htm