A Scouter wrote and asked me: “Our troop has a footlocker full of used uniform items for the boys to use–no sense spending $45 on a pair of pants when there’s a pair to be had for free in the bottom every growing scouts closet.  Of course, with the switch from the Oscar de […]

 
  Hi Curtis!! You wrote and asked me: “i just read your article on shoulder loops..i, have a few questions..if, i may.??” Sure!!  “tigercubs began about ’96(??) are they associated with cubscouts proper or, seperate?? do all the cub “sections” wear the same color blue loops?? webelos, too?? tigercubs will tell you they are orange […]

 
  Hey Jenny!! You wrote and asked a great question!!  However, may I please correct one minor but really frustrating item in your earlier posting…. You asked: “I have a question for folks: How does a Webelo, from a traditional troop, ‘Cross over’ into Lone Scouts?” WEBELOS is singular or plural for “WE’ll BE LOyal […]

 
  North American Scout Associations to Host 24th World Scout Jamboree Scouts from Canada, Mexico, and the United States will welcome more than 35,000 from around the world CURITIBA, Brazil, Jan. 13, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Scouts from every corner of the world will soon have the experience of a lifetime at The Summit Bechtel Family […]

 
  Hi Jon!  My personal apologies for not responding sooner; a combination of weather, a larger filing cabinet which must be filled, and some personal health (nothing serious; just testing) issues has placed my responding and research back about four or five days. You wrote and asked me some great questions…in short, the answer is “Yes!”  […]

 
  Happy New Year to everyone!! I’ll try to do a little better job with updating this blog as the year goes onward… as a person who reads and answers well over 300 pieces of mail on an average day, I get a little tired of having yet to do ANOTHER thing — a blog entry — […]

 
  (This was originally sent to me during the summer of 2008) Good morning, Roger!! Glad you’re enjoying the current version of the Badge and Uniform Site…I am in the process of updating it and placing a fresher coat of paint on the site… Yeah…I was hired as a District Scout Executive with one of […]

 
  This was written on 29 March 2010;  I found it while looking for the Centennial March emails this morning.  I stand squarely behind what it says — and it says a lot for how the program I truly LOVE is treating markets that they should be more proactively going after!! By the way, I […]

 
  The question posed was: “USScouts (the U.S. Scouting Service Project, Inc.) says that the Scout badge is not a “rank”. The uniform inspection sheet at http://www.scouting.org/filestore/pdf/34283.pdf says that the center of the left pocket is for Badges of Rank. So is it appropriate to put the Scout badge where the Badges of Rank would […]

 
  (This was originally written in the fall of 2004 as a follow-up to a presentation I did on the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA)’s youth programs, to include Scouting, to a Scouting audience.  I was asked to “pitch” why Americans should care about rebuilding a Scouting program in Iraq when (at that time) Americans were […]