New Scouts and Recruits
RECRUIT PATROL Monday 7:00 - 9:00 pm in the Lincoln Middle School Cafeteria
Once your son completes the Troop 1-1/2 requirements, he will join the Recruit Patrol. In this patrol, scouts earn the rank of Tenderfoot by working together with assistant scoutmasters to learn the basic scouting skills in more detail. The Recruit Patrol is involved with the rest of the troop for some activities, but mostly it is designed to help new scouts learn how to work on their own and prepare them to join a regular troop patrol. The Recruit Patrol requirements checklist will be given to new members and you can get another copy below. We will work together to complete these requirements but your son is expected to do much of the work at home. In addition to the listed requirements, Recruits must attend at least one troop campout with the Recruit Patrol.
The Recruit Patrol meets along with the full troop on Monday nights from 7:00 - 9:00 pm. The meeting starts in the gym and moves into the cafeteria at 7:30 pm. (see http://www.troop2bsa.org calendar for meeting and other dates.)
Meeting Requirements: Each Scouts should:
Wear the Scout uniform to the meeting
Come prepared to learn new skills.
Bring his Scout Handbook,
Bring paper, and pencil or pen.
Recruit Patrol Campout
We currently don't know where this camp will be so keep checking the web site.
Here are two packing examples that you can use to help pack. Bear in mind that it takes a few camps to figure out exactly what you need. Sometimes you'll bring too few items and may be cold or uncomfortable while other times you bring too much making you pack unnecessarily heavy. The first time or two you should probably over pack so you don't freeze.
Foil Stew recipe
Packing Example -- Read this and be prepared
Other Packing Advice -- File you can print
You MUST wear a scout uniform during the drive to and from camp. Do not bring any electronic devices at all. I will take them and you may not get them back. We may have some time after dinner to play chess, checkers, or cards if you want to bring a small travel board game.
Scouting Equipment and Supplies
The necessary Scout materials can be obtained at the Westside
Scout Store, at 10131 National Blvd. in West Los Angeles, or at Sport Chalet in
Marina del Rey.
Note: When you earn a merit badge you will receive a blue card signed by the merit badge counselor and someone from the Board of Review. Keep these cards safe as you may have to produce the cards if the Scout earns Eagle Scout. I have my son put the cards in a safe place where they (probably) will not be misplaced or lost. Also, I have my son keep a log book documenting his Scouting activities. He logs camps, hikes, merit badge activities, and other Scouting activities. He also keeps a copy of the merit badge cards in the log book.
Here is a note describing basic compass work for the advanced recruit who may want to learn this skill and it will help in preparation for 2nd class. You may also want to look at the two GPS notes as well but this will be very advanced work. Compass work, GPS notes, Packing Example.
Advancement
After a scout completes the recruit patrol he will attend the next "board of review" where he will be retested on many of the skills learned in 1-1/2 and recruits. Anything is fair game for the testing but they will definitely be asked the Scout Oath, Motto, and Slogan. They may be asked to tie one or more knots. It may be several weeks or even months after they complete the recruit patrol requirements before the next board of review. If they don't remember what I've listed above then they should review. Sometimes boys don't review properly and therefore do not pass the board of review. Often there are make-up boards so they may get a second chance to pass. If they don't then the scout will have to wait until the next "court of honor" to be awarded the tenderfoot rank. They will still participate in all patrol activities in the mean time.
Other Documents
You can download related documents from http://www.troop2bsa.org/~troop2/docs/
Most documents are available in several formats. The documents ending with an extension .doc are MS Word 2000 documents. The documents ending with .rtf are Rich Text documents that can be read or processed by most word processors. There are also standard Postscript Display Files (pdf) available for download.
Contacts
Rodney Taylor Recruit Patrol (310) 202-1377 rodney@taylor-family.com
Ken Stahlman Recruit Patrol ken@ksoft.net
9/23/2006 RT