#scouting america

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Jamie Stengle at AP:

IRVING, Texas (AP) — The Boy Scouts of America is changing its name for the first time in its 114-year history and will become Scouting America. It’s a significant shift as the organization emerges from bankruptcy following a flood of sexual abuse claims and seeks to focus on inclusion. The organization steeped in tradition has made seismic changes after decades of turmoil, from finally allowing gay youth to welcoming girls throughout its ranks. With an eye on increasing flagging membership numbers, the Irving, Texas-based organization announced the name change Tuesday at its annual meeting in Florida.

“In the next 100 years we want any youth in America to feel very, very welcome to come into our programs,” Roger Krone, who took over last fall as president and chief executive officer, said in an interview before the announcement. The organization began allowing gay youth in 2013 and ended a blanket ban on gay adult leaders in 2015. In 2017, it made the historic announcement that girls would be accepted as Cub Scouts as of 2018 and into the flagship Boy Scout program — renamed Scouts BSA — in 2019. There were nearly 1,000 young women in the inaugural class of female Eagle Scouts in 2021, including Selby Chipman. The all-girls troop she was a founding member of in her hometown of Oak Ridge, North Carolina, has grown from five girls to nearly 50, and she thinks the name change will encourage even more girls to realize they can join.

For the first time in the 114-year history of the Boy Scouts of America's history, the name will become Scouting America. This comes on the heels of a decade-plus worth of changes to inclusion in the BSA.

[ddienw]

"We should really do something to distance ourselves from the sexual assault scandals...let's change our organization's official initials to just 'SA'"!

[heswrongshesright]

VFW Claim Sharks, Bobcat Bandit, Andrew Tate's Matrix, & Glittery Toes - HWSR Ep 31

In episode 31 "VFW Claim Sharks, Bobcat Bandit, Andrew Tate's Matrix, & Glittery Toes" of He's Wrong, She's Right Podcast, hosts Andrew and Nona address negative comments about appearance and explain the reasons behind breast implants. They discuss spending Mother's Day recording, viewer demographics, and the challenges of maintaining eye contact with the camera during the podcast. The episode also covers a variety of current events and personal anecdotes, including the story of the tragic suicide of Mika Miller, including the circumstances leading up to it and the involvement of her ex-husband. Other discussions include critiques of the Boy Scouts' decision to rebrand, a bizarre police chase with a Bobcat skid-steer, the return of Reggie Bush's Heisman trophy amid NCAA controversy, and the VFW mistreating Veterans like Zachary Bell aka Veteran with a Sign. They also cover peculiar current events, like a singles ad for a labrador and restaurants using dating apps to lure customers. The episode concludes with thoughts on military training accidents and a reminder for viewers to check out their website.

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[vaxxman]

Could I request Medic having The Mom Grip on Scout’s shoulder after the speedy moron almost let a mercenary secret slip while they weee getting groceries?

Three Europeans and two Americans walk into a grocery store in New Mexico.

I hope this is the right meme.

More silliness below.

This comic is the antithesis of the "wtf is a kilometre" joke.

The faces they make when they can't quite identify the type of brown bread in the bread aisle.

You don't know how [insert nationality here] you are until you go overseas and things are different.

Spy obviously has no problems with pretending to know how much a gallon of milk is, he just peeks into his conversion chart notes, pretending it's his shopping list.

I want to think Heavy is completely fine with having to readjust to a new unit system, he just eyeballs most practical things anyways by holding them up and mumbling about how they approximately weigh like a chicken or his kettle bell etc. He's always been living in practical ignorant bliss.

Medic has a peer reviewed meltdown the first time he realises there's no uniformity in "a cup of ____" because every object has different densities. He's diligent about memorising the conversion rates for ounces, pounds, the most common things etc., and recovers ok. He goes through the same stages of grief rage when he finds out about distances and lengths.

Just remember four inches are 10.16 cm and pray no one asks you to specify anything bigger than inches.

Everyone does a mental victory lap when they manage to guess how much Celsius the weather is because they keep forgetting it's Celsius*5/9+32=Fahrenheit, Engineer reminds them patiently.

The true victories are the correct temperature guesses we've made along the way.

One time, a friend asked me if I actually knew how much a tablespoon of flour was in gramms to convince me that metric users also make use of volume based units without thinking about them. But little did she know a heaped spoonful of 405 flour is about 15g and a level tablespoon is 10g.

They claim Oolong just tastes better when it's boiled to 80°C exactly with a Bunsen burner.

You only asked for one scene but somehow I came up with a bunch of other things. This post was drawn across 2 months so the artstyle is all over the place. Thanks for your ask!

[thundergrace]

[zarla-s]

I saw this post about how Engie was probably born into generational wealth and I can't stop thinking about it.

[patreon]

[officialrailscales]

11.5” Mini Recce for Terra Bronze Tuesday

RSB/M | Terra Bronze

QTR Stop | Terra Bronze

3-Slot G10 RailScales | TerraCore | Honeycomb Texture

2-Slot G10 RailScales | TerraCore | Honeycomb Texture

1.5-Slot G10 Solo’s | TerraCore | Honeycomb Texture

QDX Sling Mount | Terra Bronze

CSMR Button | MilSpec Style | Terra Bronze

- RS

[rowrowronnie]

hiking time!!

[stone-cold-groove]

Girl Scout Cookie Time poster - 1972.

[sbrown82]

Michael Jackson & former girlfriend, singer Stephanie Mills, attending an event for the Good Scout Humanitarian Award (1990).

[fightingwithallreality]

The American Girl Book of Horse Stories (1949) illustrated by Sam Savitt

Note: The internet has this book published in 1963, but the book's copyright page has 1949

[ishomoogoo]

you know what i'd like to read rn?

a timkon fic (any rating really) where they wind up in the marvel universe and they just MENACE the avengers

you know what? bart can be there too (in whatever kind of way shipping wise), as a treat.

[lotl-universe]

Scout Kindheart art! (they should have named her thinmint.)

[lonestarbattleship]

"BOY SCOUTS ENJOY VISIT TO FLEET.

Copyright by Underwood & Underwood, K.Y.

The 51st Battalion of the United States Boy Scouts visited the Atlantic fleet, May 15th and captured the hearts of the old mariners aboard the U.S.S. New York. They delighted all who saw by their fine drilling on ducks, and later made jolly on top of the big guns of the ship."

Date: May 15, 1915

Associated Press: 5/181861, link

[get-more-bald]

being a tf2 fan has you searching shit like "us draft 1968" "us military drafts" "wars united states participation" "vietnam war drafts"