Vetran Unit - Qualification question ?? Brief interuption..

[WestCoastScouter 10]

Our unit was going for 20+ years, then did not exist for two years... then was revived under the same charter, with the same number... and has been back for 12 years.

 

So is our unit only 12 years old and thus not a Veteran Unit ?

 

Is it absolutely required to have been in uninterupted existence ?

[Twocubdad 665]

Yup.

 

There is some grace time, but not two years. The first page of the recharter paperwork will have your official length of service, in months.

[Eagle92 110]

2Cub is correct there is a brief period of time where the will credit you, I believe it's 3 months. After that, you must either A) pay for the missing months, or B) start over. One troop I started didn't have the date I presented the charter to them b/c they were about 5 months late rechartering. Luckily it happened their first year.

[ParkMan 1293]

On a related note - if you have a unit that ceased to exist, but then started up again years later, will they generally let you use the old unit numbers or give you new ones.

 

Specially, there's a church I know that had a Troop years back. At the time it was quite old for our area and had two digit troop number (15, 17, or something like that). Somewhere along the way, the Troop folded. I'm not sure when, but my guess is more than ten years ago.

 

There's been one or two loose discussions about starting the Troop back up.

 

If it started back up, I wondered if they'd let them use the historical Troop number, or make them get a new 3 digit number.

 

 

 

 

[Eagle92 110]

Depends upon #1 if the number is in use already and #2 the council you are in. It appears, stress appears, that in my council, numbers are assigned by location, and that older numbers are held for specific counties and/or areas of the counties. For example, one unit in a town that hasn't had a pack in it for about 12 years was given the town's historic number.

[SctDad 10]

Since it seems that your troop has had to reset for a lack of better terms, here is something that you may want to consider. I do not know if applies to you or not.

 

Founders Bar

http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/522-011.pdf

 

[WestCoastScouter 10]

UPDATE: from original poster...

 

We are a cub scout pack... we have the same unit number as before, and the same charter... just had 2 years where the pack temporarily disapeared... then the charter got it back going again...