How To Join Troop 149

Joining Requirements:

To become a Scout you must be a boy who has completed the 5th grade, or has earned the Arrow of Light Award, or be 11 years old, but not yet 18. If you think that you'd like to join Troop 149, please come to a few meetings first to see if you like it or not. If you decide that you do like what you see, then you should talk to the Scoutmaster about joining. Then during your Scoutmaster Conference, you will complete all of the Boy Scout joining requirements which are listed below. They are also listed in the Boy Scout Handbook, which is one of the things you'll need to have.

Any boy who has completed the fifth grade or is 11 years old, or has earned the Arrow of Light Award, but is under 18 years of age.
Submit a completed Boy Scout application and health history signed by your parent or guardian.
Find a troop near your home.
Repeat the Pledge of Allegiance.
Demonstrate the Scout sign, salute, and handshake.
Show how to tie a square knot.
Understand and agree to live by the:
The Scout Oath
The Scout Law
The Scout Motto
The Scout Slogan
The Outdoor Code
Describe the Scout badge.
With your parent or guardian, complete the exercises in the pamphlet How to Protect Your Child From Drug and Child Abuse.
Participate in a Scoutmaster conference.

The Scoutmaster should give you the Boy Scout application and health history forms at your first meeting, as well as a permission slip, phone list, and calendar. The cost of registration is $7. Also, you can get Scout Insurance for $1 and a subsription to Boys Life Magazine for $9, but both of these are optional. The Scoutmaster will go in to more detail with the application when you talk to him. We also expect parents to be involved with the troop in some way, at minimum as a Troop Committee member. Once you have completed all that, we have a ceremony, and you become an official member of Troop 149! Congratulations!

What You Need:

There are several things that you'll need as a Scout. First of all is your uniform. This consists on several parts:

Scout Class A shirt with council patch, troop numbers, rank, patrol patch, postition patch (if you are in a leadership position) and red epaulettes on it.
Scout shorts or pants
Scout belt
Scout socks
Troop 149 hat (we will provide)
Troop 149 Class B shirt (purchase from troop)
You will also need a Boy Scout Handbook. All of this can be purchased from the Scout Offices. We also have some used uniform parts for sale in the Uniform Closet at troop meetings if you are interested in that. If you are an older scout and you have used uniform parts that don't fit anymore, you can sell it to the Uniform Closet for $5.

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