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re: How Many Of You Baws Were Boy Scouts?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:50 am to kywildcatfanone
Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:50 am to kywildcatfanone
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I'm ashamed of the organization now.
I agree, my Scoutmaster (Navy Vet from WWII) and was on the landings at Iwo and Okinawa is rolling in his grave.
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Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:53 am to LuckyTiger
Wouldn't that be "Baw Scouts"?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 2:32 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
Eagle Scout. Went to camp salmen every summer and some winter camps too. Nothing like sleeping in canvas tents in Mississippi in the summer.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 3:03 pm to aileron
I was a SoDB (Sons of Daniel Boone)
Boy Scouts were watered down pansy's compared to us. Kilt me some injuns and a bar which would not be too damn PC after all these years. At least it was not a Louisiana Black Bear so the Ole Miss fans on here can chill out.
Boy Scouts were watered down pansy's compared to us. Kilt me some injuns and a bar which would not be too damn PC after all these years. At least it was not a Louisiana Black Bear so the Ole Miss fans on here can chill out.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 3:29 pm to LuckyTiger
There is no such thing as a boy scout. Anyone that participates in that crap is a girl.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 4:20 pm to LuckyTiger
Eagle Scout, Order of the Arrow, Philmont, and National Jamboree. Became friends with some guys that all got Eagle together, went to HS, LSU, and beyond together and we are still friends 20 years later.
It's really a shame that the organization won't be able to provide the experience to young men like it did for me and my friends. My friends and I all agree we can't be and won't let our sons be part of an organization that has become so feckless.
It's really a shame that the organization won't be able to provide the experience to young men like it did for me and my friends. My friends and I all agree we can't be and won't let our sons be part of an organization that has become so feckless.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 4:51 pm to LuckyTiger
I was in Civil Air Patrol. Got to fly in Cessnas every few months and traveled a lot for free. Was a pretty great experience looking back.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 4:55 pm to deanwelles
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It's really a shame that the organization won't be able to provide the experience to young men like it did for me and my friends. My friends and I all agree we can't be and won't let our sons be part of an organization that has become so feckless.
Did you see the part where there will be boys troops and girls troops? No co-ed troops?
How exactly is this going to change the experience for your sons?
Posted on 5/4/18 at 5:13 pm to LSUFanHouston
No way.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 5:18 pm to LuckyTiger
I'm a Eagle Scout.
I had a flag flown over the US Capital for getting it.
I had a flag flown over the US Capital for getting it.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 6:06 pm to LuckyTiger
Camp Thistlethwaite every summer. Great time.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 6:08 pm to LuckyTiger
I always thought the boy scouts were for kids with beta dads who couldn't teach their kids outdoor stuff.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 6:21 pm to LuckyTiger
Cub Scouts but quit and regret it
Was looking forward to one day having sons do it, but not anymore since it's been ruined.
Was looking forward to one day having sons do it, but not anymore since it's been ruined.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 10:22 pm to LSUFanHouston
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Did you see the part where there will be boys troops and girls troops? No co-ed troops?
How exactly is this going to change the experience for your sons?
He's the kind of eagle scout where his dad did all of the work.
Cuz if he actually has paid attention to the changes, he would realize that his old troop hasn't changed a bit.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 10:34 pm to LuckyTiger
Star
Good troop until we moved at my age 14, new troop was shitty.
I was a Merit Badge fulfilling machine.
Don’t regret not finishing.
I would have probably dropped out once I could legally drive.
Good troop until we moved at my age 14, new troop was shitty.
I was a Merit Badge fulfilling machine.
Don’t regret not finishing.
I would have probably dropped out once I could legally drive.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:37 pm to LuckyTiger
Our troop camped out a whole lot. My dad was our scoutmaster. He worked for International Paper. They gave us land, and we started a Christmas tree farm. Bought camping equipment with our proceeds.
We went to a Scout camp one year. It was Camp Kickapoo in Mississippi. That was nowhere near as much fun as just going out in the middle of nowhere on some of IP's land with just our guys.
We would do hikes, we learned all of the useful knots, and there were opportunities for working on advancing through the different levels, but we just mainly went out and had a good time. We fished. We had one place near the tree farm where we could hunt for arrowheads. I think the kids that didn't have dads that took them to do that kind of stuff really benefited from it.
This was in the 70's. We ushered Ole Miss, and Miss State football games when both played their big games in Jackson. Every other year they had an Ole Miss vs LSU and State vs Alabama double header. We picked up trash in the stands, and they treated us to hotdogs between games. We even worked a few Jackson State games.
I don't think we were a very conventional troop.
We went to a Scout camp one year. It was Camp Kickapoo in Mississippi. That was nowhere near as much fun as just going out in the middle of nowhere on some of IP's land with just our guys.
We would do hikes, we learned all of the useful knots, and there were opportunities for working on advancing through the different levels, but we just mainly went out and had a good time. We fished. We had one place near the tree farm where we could hunt for arrowheads. I think the kids that didn't have dads that took them to do that kind of stuff really benefited from it.
This was in the 70's. We ushered Ole Miss, and Miss State football games when both played their big games in Jackson. Every other year they had an Ole Miss vs LSU and State vs Alabama double header. We picked up trash in the stands, and they treated us to hotdogs between games. We even worked a few Jackson State games.
I don't think we were a very conventional troop.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:47 pm to soccerfüt
I was in from 6th grade to around the time I started driving and like many others in this thread I made it to Life just coasting through summer camps, I was just there to have fun.
My troop was great and I’m still pretty good friends with all the guys in my patrol 10+ years later. We were pretty involved in OA (Tipisa Lodge) but I didn’t make Vigil. We did tons of camping, backpacking, canoeing, and even some Seminole War re-enacting.
My Scoutmaster grew up with a bunch of seminoles so my patrol (his oldest son was in our patrol) would go do re-enactments with them. We would hand make buckskin moccasins, leggings, leather pouches and all kinds of stuff like that and then go in to the woods for a few days and sleep in chickee’s & lean-tos. It really was a time warp, we’d be hanging out listening to the old Seminole’s tell stories that were passed down to them and so on. During the battles, our group of young kids would usually sneak our way right up in front between the crowd and the soldiers for the ambush - if we made a bunch of girls in the crowd scream when we popped up before firing our muskets towards the soldiers we considered it a success. It was about as much fun as you could possibly have at 13 or so.
At the time, I didn’t really appreciate scouting as much as I should have. It really changed my life although I didn’t realize it until years later.
My troop was great and I’m still pretty good friends with all the guys in my patrol 10+ years later. We were pretty involved in OA (Tipisa Lodge) but I didn’t make Vigil. We did tons of camping, backpacking, canoeing, and even some Seminole War re-enacting.
My Scoutmaster grew up with a bunch of seminoles so my patrol (his oldest son was in our patrol) would go do re-enactments with them. We would hand make buckskin moccasins, leggings, leather pouches and all kinds of stuff like that and then go in to the woods for a few days and sleep in chickee’s & lean-tos. It really was a time warp, we’d be hanging out listening to the old Seminole’s tell stories that were passed down to them and so on. During the battles, our group of young kids would usually sneak our way right up in front between the crowd and the soldiers for the ambush - if we made a bunch of girls in the crowd scream when we popped up before firing our muskets towards the soldiers we considered it a success. It was about as much fun as you could possibly have at 13 or so.
At the time, I didn’t really appreciate scouting as much as I should have. It really changed my life although I didn’t realize it until years later.
Posted on 5/4/18 at 11:59 pm to BRgetthenet
I hope those who were don’t think of themselves as baws.
Why did you use the word because it sucks and I will fricking fight anyone who thinks it’s cool. Seriously just me fricking mad
Why did you use the word because it sucks and I will fricking fight anyone who thinks it’s cool. Seriously just me fricking mad
Posted on 5/5/18 at 4:50 am to MaHittaMaHitta
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Anyone else go to Camp Salmen?
I did. Spent a couple summers at the old Camp Salmen on Bayou Liberty. They closed it for a development that never happened and moved to VBar in Mississippi.
“On the bonny bonny banks of Bayou Liberty.”
Posted on 5/5/18 at 6:44 am to Houma Sapien
City dwellers raised by single mothers or sissy dads.
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