Posted on 04/30/2018 3:16:56 PM PDT by fruser1
WASHINGTON (WMAL) – Boy Scout history will be made this weekend at Nationals Park. Saturday for the first time ever an all-girl Cub Scout den will lead the flag ceremony at the start of a Major League Baseball game.
Since Saturday will be a first in the history of baseball, all media coverage will go to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
The Nationals take on the Diamondbacks Saturday at 4:05 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at wmal.com ...
“However at weblo age we were noticing the girls more. That is when we started liking action girls.”
Blossoming secondary sexual characteristics cover a multitude of sins.
One of my first camping trips around 1965 ETC ETC
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I seriously doubt ‘they’ could get away with such a schedule in ANY Boot Camp today....
The ‘regulars’ would probably be fine BUT the snow flakes, those confused what they are and the girls would probably protest and get ‘sick’...
Course they need all available time to make sure EVERYONE is up on the latest fashions, walk in high heels to show the guys how hard the girls got it etc etc etc
Probably don’t have the Firing Range either..can’t upset the darlins’ with things that go boom....
As EVERY ‘old fart’ has said since the Last Supper — with this latest crop of recruits/laborers/ etc we are doomed.
I take it you believe in separation of the sexes until they are married.
Well, you thought wrong.
The Troop's Youth Leaders
The troop is actually run by its boy leaders. With the guidance of the Scoutmaster and his assistants, they plan the program, conduct troop meetings, and provide leadership among their peers.
Junior Leader Positions
- Senior patrol leader - top junior leader in the troop. He leads the patrol leaders' council and, in consultation with the Scoutmaster, appoints other junior leaders and assigns specific responsibilities as needed.
- Assistant senior patrol leader - fills in for senior patrol leader in his absence. He is also responsible for training and giving direction to the quartermaster, scribe, troop historian, librarian, and instructors.
- Patrol leader - gives leadership to members of his patrol and represents them on the patrol leaders' council.
- Assistant patrol leader - fills in for the patrol leader in his absence.
- Troop guide - advisor and guide to the new Scout patrol.
- Historian - collects and maintains troop memorabilia and information on former troop members.
- Librarian - keeps troop books, pamphlets, magazines, audiovisuals, and merit badge counselor list available for use by troop members.
- Instructor - teaches one or more advancement skills to troop members.
- Chaplain Aide - assists in troop religious services and promotes religious emblems program.
- Junior assistant Scoutmaster - a Scout 16 or older who supervises and supports other boy leaders as assigned.
- Quartermaster - responsible for troop supplies and equipment.
- Scribe - the troop secretary.
- Webmaster
- Outdoor Ethics Guide
- Troop OA Representative
The Patrol Leaders' Council
The patrol leaders' council, not the adult leaders, is responsible for planning and conducting the troop's activities. The patrol leaders' council is composed of the following voting members: senior patrol leader, assistant senior patrol leader, patrol leaders, troop guide, Venture crew chief, Varsity team captain.
The troop's activities are selected and planned at the annual program planning conference. The troop's yearly plan is then submitted to the troop committee for approval. The troop committee either approves the plan or makes alternative suggestions for the patrol leaders' council to consider. At its monthly meetings, the patrol leaders' council organizes and assigns activity responsibilities for the weekly troop meetings. The troop committee interacts with the patrol leaders' council through the Scoutmaster.
http://usscouts.org/boyscouts/bstroop.asp
Many boy leaders have grown up to become Scoutmasters or Professional Scouts.
Boy Scouting fully prepared me for USAF Basic Training, and really the whole military experience. Years of already keeping my gigline straight and trying to be the sharpest trooper in the Troop.
One of our Scouting Trips was to the Naval Base at Norfolk. Toured a Carrier, and a Sub. We slept overnight in a Naval open bay Barracks, three bunks high, and were awakened with a yeoman shouting over the PA System, "Réveille, Réveille, all hands Réveille!" Then, the truly thunderous report of hundreds of Sailor's feet slamming the floor at once that shook the whole dormitory building. That was a wake-up call for life.
As EVERY ‘old fart’ has said since the Last Supper — with this latest crop of recruits/laborers/ etc we are doomed.
So, yeah, you're right.
What in the world would give you that impression?
Stuff like this is why we left the Scouts.
>>Mixed gender troops are not allowed by BSA.
Girls can join, but they must be in their own troop.<<
teh gays OTOH can mix and ogle all they want. Including the adults.
I was a Cub scout and when we had campouts we went skinny-dipping, now I guess they can’t do that with girls in the Cubs...
You said: “I see nothing wrong with girls in scounting. The girl scouts have failed them as an organization. There have been girls involved in scouting since the get go. Mothers and sisters attend virtually every scouting event. Why not let the girls join and benefit from the life lessons taught in scouting.”
Here’s what’s wrong with this picture.
Sure, it might be good for the girls and GSA failed them. I agree. But, let’s look at the boys. When you have a group of boys together, they get to act like boys. They get to yell, and play, and roughhouse and make up games and tell fart jokes.
Add one girl to the mix and the dynamic changes to one that is more genteel and less rambunctious. This whole thing is one more step toward feminizing boys and ultimately leads to the soy boy metrosexual male who is not a man.
Lest you think I’m anti-girl, I’m not. I’m the father of two girls and two boys. All are strong and independent adults and all celebrate the differences between the sexes, not trying to make them the same.
Girl Scouts has some competition with American Heritage Girls who do a much better job. Boy Scouts competition is Trail Life USA which celebrates the idea of letting boys be boys.
Another fine American institution destroyed. The left is doing a wonderful job destroying our culture. Fine job.
Our society is becoming “all about the girl”. Our boys are in crisis because masculinity is vilified. Allowing girls into boy scouts might benefit the girls, but it will not help boys.
Of course, allowing boys with gender identity disorder and same sex attraction to openly display it within the organization will not help boys either. Nor will allowing same sex attracted adults to live out their fantasy of camping among a group of pubescent boys in the woods.
Unfortunately, girl scouts is a moral void. There are all girl and coed alternatives, but my daughter and I did not explore any of them. She and I spend a lot of time together instead. I don’t think any of the current institutions can do a better job of teaching her to be a strong woman than I can.
We’ve got entirely too many social experiments going at one time in our country and we are not waiting to see how any of them play out.
The pussification of America continues apace.
“What you’re missing is that you unknowingly made the assertion that girls/women are innately dependent on boys/men because the girls who want to camp and “learn life skills” have no choice but to use an institution founded and created by men and boys.”
Don’t blame these girls who have joined the Cub/Boy Scouts.
If you are going to blame someone, blame the BSA.
Now, if the BSA is a great organization, why are they letting the BSA go co-ed?
If the BSA is co-ed, how can it still be an organization?
Why do you care that the BSA in now co-ed?
Thanks for sharing your knowledge of the leadership structure of the Boy Scouts.
With that, it is evident that the exact leadership structure you have outlined made the decision to make the BSA a co-ed organization.
Do you agree with the Boy Scout Troop Leaders that made the decision to go co-ed?
And as an organization, the Boy Scouts decided to permit girls to join.
Worthy organizations make good decisions, while worthless organizations make made decisions.
Which do you believe occurred?
Well said.
Girl Scouts is a mess. Our Chartered Org has a Girl Scout Troop under it. Total mess.
Never happen. Ever.
Girl Scouts is massively progressive, and now the MeToo is slipping in there.
Well I hate to make your case for you, to a degree, but that is a very moot point. So the truth is, that one major category of Boy Scouting has been fully coed for almost fifty years.
Probably one of the major changes with Exploring was it going co-ed. In 1969, girls could participate with post programs as "Explorer Participants" not members, however they had to be members of an 'associated' group like Girl Scouts or Camp Fire. Then in April of 1971, Explorers officially went co-ed. Girls would be admitted to posts as determined by their chartering organization. Also in 1971, the upper age of Exploring was raised to 20 from 17. By the 1990s, girls comprised about half of Explorer membership.My Explorer Post did not go coed in 1971. We specialized in winter camping and outdoor cooking. I think it would still be hard to get a girl to spend an "Eskimo Weekend" in a pup tent in below freezing weather with snow falling.
I feel that Cub Scouts and Boy Scouts should not have female members. It completely spoils the male camaraderie. Urinating on the campfires of the boys in a different patrol. Five mile hikes into the wilderness with packs and tents for five days to a week. Ribald skits at meetings. Gross boy shenanigans. The whole tone and morale would change with a girl present.
Since Explorer Scouts are the senior category they are better able to adjust to more young adult interactions in a coed Explorer Post depending on the specialty defined in the Post's Charter. Preferably that would be a progression from the character building guidance of the earlier Packs and Troops without girls.
http://www.seniorscoutinghistory.org/seniorscoutsite/exploring2.html
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