Hi Andy, Saw your comments about Merit Badge Counselors not giving written tests. Just to let you know, USSSP website has a 15 page “worksheet” for the Cooking Merit Badge, and it sure looks a lot like a test to me! (Daniel Amyx, ADL, Pack 120 NetCommish Comment: Usually Andy answers the questions here, but […]

Several longstanding Scouting friends wear 15 or more “square knots”—all properly placed (even with the colors in the correct direction), with no duplicates where there should be none, and with no inappropriate embellishments or incorrectly placed badges anywhere else on their Scouters’ uniforms. No “parents pins” on their collars or pocket flaps; no “temporary patches” […]

How’s this for a “success story”… Hi Andy, I’ve been reading your column avidly while looking for a unit Commissioner opportunity. Great column! I’m an Eagle Scout with grown children and am looking for a volunteer Scouter opportunity in NH. In order to find the right fit I decided to attend several district meetings (Roundtables, […]

To lead off this New Year, let’s first give a tip of the Commissioner’s Cap to John Szpytman, of Dearborn, Michigan, who wrote this Letter to the Editor of NEWSWEEK magazine: “Howard Stern in a Boy Scout uniform insults those in Scouting who work to show young men a better path of values. I just […]