{"id":1830,"date":"2015-04-01T01:51:04","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:51:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/?p=1830"},"modified":"2015-04-01T01:51:04","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T05:51:04","slug":"issue-438-april-1-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/2015\/04\/issue-438-april-1-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Issue 438 \u2013 April 1, 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nSTUMPERS!<\/em>\u00a0 Did you ever get asked a question that you\u2019re just not sure how to answer? I\u2019ve had a few, so I thought I\u2019d share them with you. Maybe you can come up with an answer. Here we go\u2026<\/p>\n

Dear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019ve heard that a new merit badge\u2014Hunting\u2014will require bagging small game and migratory birds, and then cooking them. Can the cooking also count for Cooking merit badge? (Hal Facre, Missouri Breaks Council, MT)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our troop is traveling to northern Norway\u2014\u201cThe Land of the Midnight Sun\u201d\u2014this summer for a week of camping at an international Scouting event. Several of our Scouts are very worried about completing Camping merit badge req. 9(a), which specifically says \u201cCamp a total of at least 20 nights\u2026\u201d because, during our stay in northern Norway, the sun doesn\u2019t actually set, so that there aren’t any \u201cnights.\u201d What do they do? Does this mean that this camping trip can\u2019t be counted toward this requirement? (Ben Messin, Georgia Peach Council, GA)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nHi Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

My Scoutmaster caught me chopping a live tree with my hatchet and told me to hand him my Totin\u2019 Chip because he was going to cut a corner off of it. But when he tried to do this, his knife blade was dull and he slipped and cut the end of his left thumb off. Should I have asked him for his own Totin\u2019 Chip and cut a corner off of his… After I handed him a Band Aid (TM) I mean? (Fred Fragilhoof, First Class Scout)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our daughter, Jamie, is a real tomboy. So, when she said she wanted to be a Boy Scout, we said okay. The troop was cool with this and everything\u2019s been going fine for the past two years. Then last week they elected her to the Order of the Arrow, and we\u2019ve heard that during the Ordeal weekend Scouts run around wearing just breechcloths or loincloths. Jamie\u2019s all for it and ready to go, but we\u2019re not so sure. What do we do? (Happy Scout Parents\u2014until now\u2014in Ho-Ho-Kus, NJ)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

My son\u2019s Den Leader is an excellent outdoorsman and avid hunter. A new game he taught our son and his den-mates is a shotgun shell re-loading relay. Is this a BSA-approved activity? (Maude Lin, Buckshot Alley Township, PA)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

While on a camping trip two weeks ago, my son and his patrol saved their Scoutmaster\u2019s life. It seems he was a tad \u201cunder the influence\u201d when Snake (he likes the boys to call him “Snake”) drove his pickup truck off a dirt road and rolled it down an embankment, where it ended \u201cwheels up\u201d in a deep stream. The patrol dropped their gear, jumped into the stream, and dragged him out of the truck\u2019s crushed cab before it filled with water. When we reported this to our council, to see if maybe there\u2019s a \u201cheroism\u201d award for these boys, we were told we needed corroboration by an adult. But the Scoutmaster was the only adult present and he is claiming that, because he was stone drunk, he doesn\u2019t remember anything. Is there any recourse? It would be a shame if these kids weren\u2019t recognized for their bravery. We think the council’s being unreasonable because of the other incident on this camping trip, but the Scouts have already explained that they had nothing to do with all those tents burning down. (Scout Dad, Nascar Area Council, AL)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

Our son is afraid of stars, which is why he\u2019ll only go on day hikes with his troop; never overnight camp-outs and definitely no summer camp because he can\u2019t sleep, and is sometimes even subject to panic attacks, unless there\u2019s a solid roof over his head. But he needs Camping merit badge to make Eagle. So, is it okay if he sets up his tent on our basement and sleeps there? Would that count? (Name & Galaxy Withheld)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nDear Andy,<\/strong><\/p>\n

My son\u2019s Scoutmaster is a really great guy, extra friendly, and all the Scouts really like him, especially since he doesn\u2019t like to be called by his last name, like \u201cMister Jones\u201d or \u201cMister Smith.\u201d He thinks this is way too formal for a good Scoutmaster-to-Scout relationship. He prefers the Scouts call him \u201cMister\u201d and his first name, which is William. Okay so far, except that he prefers his nickname, which is Willie. Something just seems \u201coff\u201d here, or is it me? (Concerned Scout Mom)<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nSo there you have it, folks\u2026 My Stumpers for 2015. Any ideas? If you’d like to help out, just write back!<\/p>\n

Happy Scouting!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Andy<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Have a question? Facing a dilemma? Wondering where to find a BSA policy or guideline? Write to askandybsa@yahoo.com. Please include your name and council. (If you\u2019d prefer to be anonymous, if published, let me know and that\u2019s what we\u2019ll do.)<\/strong><\/p>\n

[No. 438 \u2013 4\/1\/2015 \u2013 Copyright \u00a9 Andy McCommish 2015]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

________________________________________ STUMPERS!\u00a0 Did you ever get asked a question that you\u2019re just not sure how to answer? I\u2019ve had a few, so I thought I\u2019d share them with you. Maybe you can come up with an answer. Here we go\u2026 Dear Andy, I\u2019ve heard that a new merit badge\u2014Hunting\u2014will require bagging small game and migratory […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-23"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1830"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1833,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1830\/revisions\/1833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/netcommissioner.com\/askandy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}