National Camping School Insignia

[OzarksOsage 10]

With so many of our Scouting insignia being deliberately designed, I have to wonder why it is that on the emblem for the National Camping School (which I always felt is one of the all-time coolest emblems) that instead of 12 antler points, as one would typically expect for the 12 points of the Scout Law, there are 13. Is there a story from NCS that I missed? When I look at photos of the old patches I see that the oldest ones also have 13 antler points, so it's not a recent mistake in manufacture. Any ideas?

 

Ozarks Osage

[Eamonn 61]

One for each point of the Scout Law and one for camping.

At least so I was informed.

Eamonn

[Crew21_Adv 25]

OO,

 

Greetings!

 

I was told..... (and I bet you'll here this a few times in this thread).

 

The thirteen antler points of the National Camping School insignia relate to the thirteen summer camp program areas. (Now, I'll be flipping thru my NCS binders trying remember what those program areas were)

 

(P.S. I've been told that there were fifteen areas at one time and that older patches can sometimes be found with 15 antlers.)

 

I hope this helps! (and I hope it's true.. lol)

 

Scouting Forever and Venture On!

Crew21 Adv