Scouts have bumpy landing

On Mar 19, 2:40 pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Fred Goodwin, CMA" wrote

Thanx for that reminder.

Actually, to be a merit badge counselor, there is no fee required. If
you register for any other volunteer position (e.g., Scoutmaster or
unit commissioner), it does indeed cost $10, then you can add MBC or
additional volunteer positions for free.

But if you register *only* as a MBC, there is no charge.

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As long as we are on the subject of becoming active in Boy Scouts, I should
mention the Explorer program, specifically, the Aviation Explorer program.
The Explorers are groups involved in about every career path that could be
taken in life. Examples are paramedic, police, nursing, engineering, and
the list goes on.

Explorers are a "division" of Boy Scouts, and more specifically, "Learning
for Life." Not to lose sight of the ball though, as the organizational
specifics are not important.

Aviation Explorers can be a pivotal way to increase our youth's interest in
aviation. In our post, we have had several youth take aviation as a career
path, when that was not the likely way they were headed.

It is not all that hard to get a new post started. The activities can be
broad, and varied, and not necessarily all aviation. We have gone to at
least two air shows per year (not counting the big one (OSH)) gone skiing,
rafting, to scuba certifying classes, directed parking and aircraft at our
area air show, helped with our local EAA fly-ins, and the list goes on.

I'll bet a good many people do not realize where all of the man (and boy
g) power comes from, to push and park all of the airplanes in the
homebuilt showplane area at OSH every year. It is all Explorers, and other
adult EAA advisors. They also man the ropes at the taxiways in area 51, do
crowd control and plane protection (from the few ignorant people watching
the daily airshow) People over 18 that have been to OSH two times as an
Explorer are eligible to be trained to flag aircraft on some of the active
taxiway intersections off of 18/36, serving one year as apprentice, then on
their own the next year. Shifts are 2 or three hours per day, with
opportunities to work double shifts, if desired.

The Aviation Explorers have a base on the airport grounds, down next to the
North airplane camping area, next to the Civil Air Patrol base camp. There
are usually a few more than 100 boys and girls, and 20 or 30 adult advisors.
Units come from Cleveland, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, North Carolina, and some
other far away places that I can't remember right now.

I can't emphasize how good of an experience Aviation Explorers can be for
you, and for our youth. For those people who really want to make a
difference in keeping G.A. alive, and even growing, IMHO, there is NO better
way to make it happen.

Seriously, think of getting some buddies together and start a post. It is
not hard, and very rewarding. I can point you to a person who is far more
qualified than me, to give you the specifics of how to make this all happen.

Contact me via back channels to get the contact person's name, at:


Make the two obvious BIG changes in my addy.

For other general questions, feel free to contact me, or better yet, post
them here, in newsgroup land.
--
Jim in NC

Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

-Robert

"Robert M. Gary" wrote

Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

This explains it far better than I could ever attempt.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Learning_for_Life

Here are a couple other unit specific sites.

http://www.lastfrontiercouncil.org/d...ingforlife.htm

http://www.troop97.net/bsainfo.htm

Notice that I put quotations around "division" of Boy Scouts, and that is
not even right, because it is now called just "Scouting."

Like I said, the divisions are not important. Helping our youth get "turned
on" to aviation is what is important.

Google "Learning for Life" if you want to know more, or even better, inquire
about starting a unit, by contacting me and getting _my_ contact person's
information.
--
Jim in NC

"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

As long as we are on the subject of becoming active in Boy Scouts, I should
mention the Explorer program, specifically, the Aviation Explorer program.

Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

It is not the least bit odd. The BSA organizes career programs for
charter organizations such as government agencies or corporations that
may have difficulty with belief in God under the Learning For Life
banner, a subsidiary of the BSA. Exploring and learning for life have
no Oath or Laws as Scouting does. Exploring falls under this banner.
For more on Exploring and Learning For Life visit:

http://www.learning-for-life.org/

http://www.learning-for-life.org/exploring/index.html

http://www.learning-for-life.org/exploring/aviation/index.html
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Cheers, Steve Henning in Reading, PA USA
http://scouters.us

On 2007-03-19 14:55:04 -0700, "Robert M. Gary" said:



Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

-Robert

Explorers are essentially a separate organization now. They were once
the only Scouting program for older boys. However, the organizational
structure of Explorers made it vulnerable to legal assault by people
who do not like Scouting or its core values, so the Venture and Varsity
programs were developed instead.
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor

On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:04:24 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote:

On 2007-03-19 14:55:04 -0700, "Robert M. Gary" said:



Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

-Robert

Explorers are essentially a separate organization now. They were once
the only Scouting program for older boys. However, the organizational
structure of Explorers made it vulnerable to legal assault by people
who do not like Scouting or its core values, so the Venture and Varsity
programs were developed instead.

"Separate But Equal" worked for Blacks, right?

writes:

"Separate But Equal" worked for Blacks, right?

It did when there was true equality (which was rare), but it was an
unnecessary distinction, since there were no differences between blacks and
whites that justified it.

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On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 14:33:32 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

writes:

"Separate But Equal" worked for Blacks, right?

It did when there was true equality (which was rare), but it was an
unnecessary distinction, since there were no differences between blacks and
whites that justified it.

I was being facetious. How many whites got arrested and beaten for
drinking from a "Blacks Only" water fountain?

writes:

I was being facetious. How many whites got arrested and beaten for
drinking from a "Blacks Only" water fountain?

Not a significant number. But whites who attempted to ignore segregation did
get arrested, beaten up, and otherwise persecuted. White skin only protected
them as long as they followed the party line.

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On Mon, 26 Mar 2007 11:45:21 +0200, Mxsmanic
wrote:

writes:

I was being facetious. How many whites got arrested and beaten for
drinking from a "Blacks Only" water fountain?

Not a significant number. But whites who attempted to ignore segregation did
get arrested, beaten up, and otherwise persecuted. White skin only protected
them as long as they followed the party line.

Like Black comedians noted, it was on 9-11-2001 that Blacks finally
became Americans for a short period of time while "we" were united
against Muslims. That is all over and it's business as usual.

wrote:
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:04:24 -0700, C J Campbell
wrote:


On 2007-03-19 14:55:04 -0700, "Robert M. Gary" said:


Its odd that BSA's site http://www.scouting.org/ doesn't mention
Explorers. I've not heard of them. Usually we try to get older boys
involved in Venture scouting to keep them interested.

-Robert

Explorers are essentially a separate organization now. They were once
the only Scouting program for older boys. However, the organizational
structure of Explorers made it vulnerable to legal assault by people
who do not like Scouting or its core values, so the Venture and Varsity
programs were developed instead.


"Separate But Equal" worked for Blacks, right?
"Separate but equal is inherently unequal" Brown vs. Board of Education

Margy