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Hello again Phil. Are the people on your site , in the UK, adult ,kids? I was looking around a bit, it looks welcoming. Now we need some Aussies on here.LOL

Eamonn I thought you would like to here from him. I found him on a dead website and pointed him over here. Welcome Phil, glad that the PM got through. Alan

You can't hold an office if your not there. You can't let this boy slide by, while every other boy earns his rank correctly. Active participation is taking on a role in leadership and fullfilling the obligations of the job. My 2 cents Alan

OGE That would be a mad scramble, I love it. Eagledad, A night camporee?? Now thats a new twist?? I'll email that one to my sadistic conterpart, He has them lash together 16 foot tall tripods, that they pull upright using a pully rigged 25 feet in a nearby tree. It weighs 125 LB and is really awkward. We figure if the two of us can do it, a whole patrol can. 80 balls in a garbage can. LOL. lookout Oscar the grouch.

We did this at the fall camporee, it was 35 degrees overnite. Water does sound like fun! My wife would bring home stuff from yard sales and we would build a patrol oriented game around it. She drug home 80 tennis balls from walmart this year. She paid $12 for the lot. Now I got to figure something to do with them???

Thanks for the input, I thought it was just this council. I don't have any idea why they wouldn't let him help, unless they didn't have enough ammo on stock. They should have given a reason. So as well as being certified you need BSA approval to run thier range, Well, you can't be to careful.

All BSA rifle ranges that I know of, are operated by a NRA certified training instructor. I believe you have to have these certifications to be a MBC. At least in this coucil. Life NRA member here, Alan

WOW Eamonn. I was just at the ukscouts website. Parasailing, ballooning, chainsaw and tree felling. I saw a lot of initiative games also,I'll have a better look later,THANKS Alan

Tent building? Man there could be some differing opinions on how that should go together.Could be a good PL test.

I'm not looking for other peoples ideas, I was wondering if anyone had ever put on a camporee like a mini JLT outdoor program? I think scouts get tired of the same old activities, and don't go to district outings, because they have been there.

What do scouts like to do? The idea, is to come up with games that no one has ever seen,and keep them a secret till the camporee.These games will require the whole patrol to participate, or they won't complete the task. Criteria; scouts like to run, jump, break things, yell, all without having to think to much. Safety is a concern but kids are flexible??? Octagrab is one such game. Materials needed,10 five gallon buckets, most bakeries have a supply of extras. A piece of bungy cord with the ends fastened together long enough to wrap around the bucket. six to eight 12 fo

Eamonn I saw the post your talking about , I think it was meant as (friend) in this instance. But it could also mean "you bloak" LOL.

I think, if the SPL & ASPL got up enough courage to even ask for this extreme a measure, the committee should have been asking questions then, not now. To be a controlling SM is not leading,BY THE BOOK. There they go again, I must follow for I am their leader.

I would like to thank your son for trying to help people in need. There are lot of US citizens in Iraq. He should be Okay. Thank You, and him, for your devotion to world affairs. May God Bless. Alan

Well you could put paper bags on the unknown boy scouts head. LOL Sad, our world is so sick, we should have to take such measures.

Don't get me wrong. I appreciate all the help and time a volunteer will give. Maybe I didn't pick very popular merit badges 5 of them, but I've only signed 6 blue cards in two years, 2 for boys outside our troop. I think what got to me was, there were 2 established troops in our town and ours a young troop. They each had every required MB covered but would not share their councelors with anyone else, or each other. It just seems real selfish. Thats a better way to say it, selfish not discriminatory. Alan

There is time set aside at a meeting for advancement, a merit badge is advancement. If I can get a bank officer to come to a meeting and talk with the scouts about loans and checking accounts, I will do it so as not to tie up their time again soon. If I can get a CPR training instructor to do a demonstration at a troop meeting I will. Finally if scouts from another area troop want to attend one of these sessions they are welcome. It really bugs me, when I look at a list of MB councelors and see troop ## only. Thatis discrimination.

On page three of the scoutmaster handbook says just what Aggie & bob are saying after being trained you may wear the trained strip under the position patch for which you were trained. If you switch hats from den leader to ASM the trained strip comes off from under the ASM patch until you recieve training for that position.

In training for that type of activity, no sit-ups, pull-ups or treadmills will replace hiking with your loaded pack. A SM I know goes every year, he hikes 3 miles a day with full pack,gets back home and bikes for another 5 miles. GOOD LUCK and have fun Alan

Been there, don't want to go back. That scream, sounds like a woman being murdered, and they don't know they did it. They get out of tents without untying the flaps! Now you have a sleepwalker with night terrors, can you take him camping near a river? Will he wake up if he falls in? The parents of the boy I'm speaking of didn't warn us of his problems either. He transfered out a few years ago, but that bloodcurdling scream still rings in my ears. I feel for anyone with those problems and concerns, good luck Alan

This may be a dumb question, but why would the CO have the troops money?? Alan

My wife looks for those old books at yard sales, they're fantastic. It was the seventh edition that got me interested in scouting,just because of the enormous amount of outdoor knowledge within. The new books are nice, colorful, and somewhat informative, but I'm not sure they have the same lore that the old ones have. I have a patrol leaders handbook from 1935 it tells how to take fresh meat backpacking. Great moral stories, and old skits that nobody has ever seen. I'm new on here, and to the web period, and am very pleased to be able to talk to other scouters.So this is just my

Yes they bridge in Feb. around here but they have to have earned the AOL or they wait until they complete the fifth grade.

A boy must 11 years of age, completed the fifth grade or earned the Arrow of light. My son started Boy scouts at 10 becase he started school at age 5.