drsmith50

I used to be a OWL, and a Good Old OWL too,

But now I've finished OWLING and I don't know what to do.

I'm growing old and feeble, and I can OWL no more!

So I'm going to work my ticket if I can!

Back to Gilwell, Happy Land,

I'm going to work my ticket if I can!

Wise Owl Patrol

NC-362 1981

Camp Kanza Kansas

Thanks ilducans for your help. You have cleared up my confusion on the item numbers for both the gold stars and the veteran unit emblems. I do not have a need for the gold stars, but as the Dist. BSRTC, I try to find new or little know facts to present to the units in my District. Do not know for sure if any units have had members that died in service to our country, but one never knows. One small point of correction to your last post, the veteran unit bar goes above the unit number (between CSP and unit number) not below as you stated, but hay, I'll forgive you this time.

Thanks to WVCubDad I now know what the Veteran Unit Emblem looks like (the veteran pin, yellow on blue background) This may look good on a Pack flag, but not to sure how it would look on a Troop flag.

uzz2bowl,(or anyone else) where did you get your gold stars? Did you order them from someplace or make them yourself? Any certain size?

Thanks in advance for any help you can send my way. I plan to pass this information on at my Roundtable as I know that no one in this part of Kansas knows anything about these.

I am a Scouter of 29 years and had never heard of the gold strars on a unit flag until I read this post. I went to my copy of the Insignia Guide 2005 and sure enough its there on page 55. Now I have a different but related question, what is the veteran insignia it talks about? It states that the veteran insignia #11117 is affixed to unit and local council flags midway between the top and bottom of the flag and midway between the pole and the flag emblem. What does this look like? There is no picture (that I can find) in the insignia guide. I am familar with the veteran unit bars that are wore on the Scout uniform, does the one on the flag have something do do with these? Any and all information and help will be greatly appreciated.