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Tens of thousands of Scouts camping together for ten days. Bloggers covered every National Jamboree of the era, from Fort A.P. Hill in 2010 to The Summit Bechtel Reserve.
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Region Events and Jamborees There are two regional Jamborees that occur every couple of years. These two jamborees are the Pan-American Jamboree which is primarily for Central and South America and then the Caribbean Jamboree which is for Scouts in the Carribean basin.
Reports have been coming in over the past weekend that some Scouts and Scouters who applied to be on the staff for the 2010 National Boy Scout Jamboree have received letters from National that have included their staff patches. Even if you have yet to be selected for a staff position and returned your Letter…
For those of you that follow my blog, I have created a blog for the members of the Thunderbird Area that have registered for the 2010 National Jamboree! It will be a conduit of information and news to keep up with National Jamboree events, time lines, and news.
In order to make the 2010 National Scout Jamboree "The Best, Most Exciting, Fun-Filled, Safest Jamboree Ever" the services handled in the past as "Health and Safety" has been split into two separate services.
I opened the door.. so here it is: JC, a reader of the Blog posted a comment it reads; " Any advise for those of us facing the Jambo interview process? " Well JC, yeah I have some advise... now take it as advise, I can only tell you from my experience.
I just returned from our Contingent "Get to know Ya!" Weekend. During the weekend, we learned which leaders would be going with which in the 14 Troops that will be attending from the Cascade Pacific Council. Since I have been selected to go as a Scoutmaster, I was extremely interested in who would be the…
A few years back when I was the Sergeant Major on an Infantry Battalion preparing for a long camp out in Iraq, they (the man) sent a group of us Sergeants Major to a class where we were briefed that among other things this war would be a way for us to tell the Army…
Scouting begins with an individual commitment expressed in the life of the Patrol and Troop. Troops form districts, districts form councils, councils form regions and regions form our national organization. Each step away from the Patrol is overlaid with an ever-burgeoning bureaucracy that obscures the real work of Scouting.
As we are beginning the process of the 2010 National Jamboree, I am learning a lot about more about just how much the BSA is concerned about Health and Safety. For obvious reasons, it is a good thing to be concerned about.
2010 National Scout Jamboree Celebrating 100 Years of Scouting in the U.S.A. July 25th - August 4th, 2010 http://www.scouting.org/jamboree/ http://jambo.org/2010/ jambo links How To Attend the 2010 Jamboree of the Boy Scouts of America There are three ways to come to Fort A.P.Hill, Virginia for this event: as a participant in your local council contingent troops…
