JUNIOR LEADERSHIP POSITION DESCRIPTIONS
AND PERFORMANCE STANDARDS
This
document addresses junior leadership positions in Troop 1518. It describes duties and responsibilities that
set the troop leaders apart from the rest of the members of the troop. It does not repeat requirements that are
applicable to all scouts, such as living by the scout Oath and Law, setting a
good example, and wearing the uniform correctly.
Most importantly, this document sets out minimum performance
standards that each junior leader must meet.
Junior leaders not meeting these standards will be counseled and if
their performance does not improve they will be subject to removal. Adult Advisors are assigned to provide
guidance and advice to each junior leadership position. Advisors can assign tasks in addition to the
minimum performance standards. At the
end of the junior leader’s tenure in office only the assigned Advisor can
initial the Handbook indicating that the junior leader has successfully
completed his term.
Junior Leadership Training (JLT) is required for some
leadership positions. To keep the number
of participants manageable only the following leaders are required to attend
JLT: Senior Patrol Leader, Patrol Leaders, Scribe, Librarian, Historian,
Quartermaster, Chaplain Aide, Guide, and Junior Assistant Scoutmaster.
Attendance at the monthly Troop Leaders’ Counsel (TLC) meetings is required for all troop leaders except for Assistant Patrol Leaders.
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Introduction: The Senior
Patrol Leader (SPL) is the top junior leader in the troop. He supervises the staff through the Assistant
Senior Patrol Leader and directly manages and gives guidance to the Patrol
Leaders. When you accept the position of SPL you agree to provide service and
leadership in our troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This
job description provides some of the things you are expected to do while
serving as a junior leader. The SPL is elected by a vote of the troop.
Responsible
to: The Scoutmaster
Qualifications: Must be at least a first class scout. Demonstrated active participation in troop
activities by attendance at troop outings and rank and/or merit badge
advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Conduct troop meeting
in an orderly and business-like fashion.
Plan and conduct
Patrol Leaders' Council (PLC) meetings.
Be actively in
charge of the troop during all activities, maintaining order and discipline.
Appoints scouts
to junior leadership positions based on merit. Monitor their performance,
counsel those falling below standards, and remove those who continue to perform
at an unacceptable level.
Provide direct
supervision of the ASPL and Patrol Leaders.
Attend most troop
activities.
Measures
of Success:
Attends all troop
meetings and PLCs unless excused, and most other troop activities.
In the opinion of
the Scoutmaster, satisfactorily assists in planning troop agendas.
In the opinion of
the Scoutmaster, provides adequate supervision of the ASPL and Patrol Leaders.
Attends JLT.
If, serving
during the summer period, attends summer camp as SPL. Excused if attends a high
adventure event.
Resources: As the SPL, there are many resources available to you
to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee members. Your principle contact should be with the
Scoutmaster. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
ASSISTANT
SENIOR PATROL LEADER
Introduction: The Assistant
Senior Patrol Leader (ASPL) is immediately subordinate to the SPL and assists
the SPL in all areas. When you accept the position of ASPL you agree to provide
service and leadership in our troop. This responsibility should be fun and
rewarding. This job description provides some of the things you are expected to
do while serving as a junior leader. The ASPL is elected by a vote of the
troop.
Responsible
to: The SPL
Qualifications: Must be at least a first class scout. Demonstrated active participation in troop
activities by attendance at troop outings, service projects, and by rank and/or
merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Stands in for the
SPL in his absence.
Helps plan and
conduct Patrol Leaders' Council (PLC) meetings.
Provide direct
supervision of all staff positions (Scribe, Librarian, Quartermaster,
Historian, and Chaplain Aide)
Attend most troop
activities.
Measures
of Success:
Attends all troop
meetings and PLCs unless excused.
Attends most
other troop activities, including campouts and service projects.
In the opinion of
the Scoutmaster, satisfactorily assists the SPL in planning troop agendas.
In the opinion of
the Scoutmaster, provides adequate supervision of the troop staff.
Resources: As the ASPL, there are many resources available to
you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee members. Your principle contact should be with the
Scoutmaster. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: The Scribe is the troop secretary. When you accept
the position of Troop Scribe, you agree to provide service and leadership in
our troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job
description provides some of the things you are expected to do while serving as
a junior leader. The Troop Scribe is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: The ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated
active participation in troop activities by participation in troop outings,
service projects, rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Attend and keep a
log of Patrol Leaders' Council meetings, with special attention to attendance
and significant decisions.
Reports
significant PLC decisions to the troop.
Measures
of Success:
Attends all TLCs,
unless excused.
Neat, complete
minutes are available from all PLC.
Provide concise
report on results of PLCs to next troop meeting.
Maintain a record
of scouts needing early Boards of Review.
Attend JLT.
Resources: As the troop scribe, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, staff Advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should be
with the staff Advisors. Other resources include your fellow troop
junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: The Troop Librarian keeps the troop’s books,
pamphlets, magazines, audiovisuals, and the merit badge counselor list. When you accept the position of troop
librarian you agree to provide service and leadership in our troop. This
responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some
of the things you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. The
Troop Librarian is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated
active participation in troop activities by participation in troop outings,
service projects, rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Establish and
maintain a troop library.
Keep records on literature owned by the troop:
Conduct an
initial inventory of literature upon assuming office.
Conduct an
inventory at the end of term with the succeeding Librarian.
Marks all
literature with “Troop 1518.”
Keep a system to
check literature in and out, and follows up on late returns.
Have literature
available for borrowing at troop meetings.
Advises the SPL
of new or replacement items needed.
Removes
out-of-date merit badge pamphlets from library.
Keeps merit badge
counselor list.
Measures
of Success:
Initial inventory
conducted and recorded.
End-of-term
inventory conducted with succeeding librarian accounts for all or most
literature.
Checkout log is
kept current.
Efforts are made
to recover overdue materials.
Merit badge
pamphlets are current and made available to troop members.
Merit badge
counselor list is current.
Attend JLT
Resources: As librarian, there are many resources available to
you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
staff Advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee members. Your principle contact should be with the
staff Advisors.
Other resources include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers,
religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: The Historian collects and cares for troop
memorabilia – photos, news stories, trophies, flags, scrapbooks, and awards.
When you accept the position of troop historian, you agree to provide service
and leadership in our troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding.
This job description provides some of the things you are expected to do while
serving as a junior leader. The Historian is appointed by the Senior Patrol
Leader.
Responsible
to: ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated
active participation in troop activities by participation in troop outings, service
projects, rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Gather pictures
and facts about past activities of the troop and keep them in scrapbooks, wall
displays, or information files.
Prepares a
one-page monthly summary of troop activities.
Obtains,
identifies and mounts one scrapbook page of photos for major activities.
Take care of
troop trophies and keepsakes.
Helps the
chartered organization and the troop leadership in making use of troop
historical materials. Conducts display
of scrapbook and troop history at Courts of Honor.
Measures
of Success:
Monthly summaries
are complete, neat and bound.
Scrapbook pages
are completed for 75% of major troop activities.
Scrapbook is
displayed at one Court of Honor.
Attends JLT.
Resources: As a troop junior leader, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, staff Advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should
be with the staff Advisors. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: The Quartermasters take care of the troop’s supplies
and equipment. When you accept the position of Quartermaster, you agree to
provide service and leadership in our troop. This responsibility should be fun
and rewarding. This job description provides some of the things you are
expected to do while serving as a junior leader. Quartermasters are appointed
by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated active participation in troop activities
by participation in troop outings, service projects, rank and/or merit badge
advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Stock, keep
control of, and maintain troop equipment.
Conduct an
inventory of major items of troop equipment at the beginning of your term and
assist in an inventory with the succeeding quartermasters at the close of your
term.
Keep equipment in
good repair and mark (“Troop 1518”) all major items of equipment.
Keep the scout
locker clean and orderly.
Issue equipment
and record issues on a checkout sheet. See that equipment is returned in good order and that the items are
removed from the checkout sheet.
Suggest new and
replacement equipment items to the PLC.
Maintain troop uniform
items (T-shirts, neckerchiefs, and insignia) for distribution or sale, and keep
scrupulous records on disbursements and money received.
Measures
of Success:
Log shows all
equipment checked out and returned. Effort is made to track down missing equipment.
List of required
repairs/replacement items maintained.
Required
inventories conducted and recorded.
Uniform items
made available to the troop for purchase, and record of disbursements and money
received maintained. Notify PLC when
stock runs low.
Attend JLT.
Resources: As the quartermaster, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, staff advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should be with the staff Advisors. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Introduction: The Chaplain Aide assists the troop chaplain in his
service to the troop. When you accept
the position of Chaplain Aide you agree to provide service and leadership in
our troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job
description provides some of the things you are expected to do while serving as
a junior leader. The Chaplain Aide is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated active participation in troop activities
by participation in troop outings, service projects, rank and/or merit badge
advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Helps in troop
program planning to consider religious holidays in planning and include
religious observances in activities.
Assist chaplain
in planning and carrying out religious services at troop activities.
Tells troop
members about religious emblem program of their faith and how to earn one.
Maintain copies
of a troop religious program for campouts and ensure that they are made
available to the appropriate campout SMIC.
Measures
of Success:
Arranges for
religious leader to participate in at least one troop activity.
Makes
announcement/flyer on religious emblem programs in the area.
Conducts one
“Thoughts on our ideals” each month at troop activity.
Organizes one
non-denominational service on a camping trip.
Provide standard
religious service programs to each campout SMIC.
Attend JLT
Resources: As a troop junior leader, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, staff Advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should
be with the staff Advisors. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: When you accept
the position of troop Bugler, you agree to provide service and leadership in
our troop. This responsibility should be
fun and rewarding. This job description
provides some of the things you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. The Bugler is appointed by the Senior Patrol
Leader.
Responsible
to:
ASPL
Qualifications: Demonstrated active participation in troop
activities by participation in troop outings, service projects, rank and/or
merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Must be proficient in playing a bugle or instrument similar to a bugle.
Specific
Duties:
Sounds necessary
calls at troop activities.
Measures
of Success:
Attends at least
75% of troop meetings to sound bugle calls.
Demonstrates ability
to sound properly on the bugle the following: Reveille, Mess, To the Colors,
Church, Call to Quarters, Taps or has earned the Bugling Merit Badge.
Resources: As a troop junior leader, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, staff Advisors, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should
be with the staff Advisors. Other resources include
your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community
leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: Instructors are
senior scouts who are proficient in basic and advance skills who provide
instruction to the troop. When you
accept the position of instructor, you agree to provide service and leadership
in our troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some of the
things you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. Instructors are appointed by the Senior
Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: The Junior Assistant Scoutmaster, the Advisor to the instructors or, in
his absence, the Scoutmaster.
Qualifications: At least a first class scout. Demonstrated active participation in troop
activities by participation in troop outings, service projects, rank and/or
merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Provide quality
training to the troop at troop meetings and outing.
When assigned,
prepare lesson plans.
Assist the Troop
Guide when required.
Measures
of Success:
During tenure,
provide a minimum of three periods of instructions on assigned subjects at
troop meetings or outings.
If requested by
the new scout patrol Advisors, attend a new scout campout and assist the Troop
Guide in advancement training for the new scouts.
Resources: As an Instructor, there are many resources available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster, staff advisor, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee members. Your principle contact should be with the Advisor assigned to the Instructors or, in his absence, the Scoutmaster. Other resources include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: A Troop Guide
is a senior scout who is proficient in basic scout skills and who provides
instruction, guidance and advice to the new scout patrol. When you accept the position of Troop Guide,
you agree to provide service and leadership in our troop. This responsibility
should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some of the things
you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. Troop Guides are
appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: New scout patrol Advisors.
Qualifications: At least a
first class scout. Demonstrated active
participation in troop activities by participation in troop outings, service
projects, rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Provide guidance
and training to the new scout patrol at troop meetings and outing.
Help new scouts
advance.
Prevent
harassment of new Scouts by older scouts.
Measures
of Success:
During tenure,
provide two periods of instruction on basic skills or advancement skills to new
scout patrol.
Attend one new
scout campout and assist in basis and advancement training.
Attends PLCs with new scout Patrol Leader.
Attends JLT.
Resources: As a Troop Guide there are many resources available to
you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
Assistant Scoutmasters, new scout patrol Advisors, and troop committee members.
Your principle contact should be with the new scout patrol Advisors. Other resources
include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and
community leaders.
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Introduction: A Den Chief
works with a den of Cub Scouts led by an adult called a Den Leader. When you accept the position of Den Chief,
you agree to provide service and leadership to Troop 1518 and the Cub Scout
unit. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some of the
things you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. Den Chiefs are appointed by the Scoutmaster.
Responsible
to: The Den Leader.
Qualifications: At least a
first class scout. Demonstrated active
participation in troop activities by participation in troop outings, service
projects, rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Serve as
activities assistant at den meetings.
Meet regularly
with the Den Leader to review the Den and Pack meeting plans.
If serving as
Webelos Den Chief, prepare the boys to join Boy Scouting.
Measures
of Success:
Attends 75% of
den meetings.
Deliver a
presentation to the Webelos on what Boy Scouts, and particularly Troop 1518, is
like compared to Webelos, with the purpose of recruiting Webelos to the troop.
Resources: As a Den Chief there are many resources available to
you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
Assistant Scoutmasters, Den Leader, and troop committee members. Your principle
contact should be with the Den Leader.
Other resources include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers,
religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: A Junior Assistant Scoutmaster (JASM) is a senior and
older scout who supervises and supports other junior leaders and performs duties
assigned to him on an ad hoc basis by the SPL and Scoutmaster. In Troop 1518
the JAS is the senior Instructor and helps coordinate troop training. When you
accept the position of JASM, you agree to provide service and leadership in our
troop. This responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job description
provides some of the things you are expected to do while serving as a junior
leader. The JAS is appointed by the Senior Patrol Leader.
Responsible
to: SPL and the Advisor to the
Instructors.
Qualifications: At least 16 years old and at least a Life scout. Demonstrated active participation in troop
activities by participation in troop outings, service projects, rank and/or
merit badge advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
Performs
supervisory duties as assigned by the SPL.
Supervises Troop
Instructors and coordinates troop training.
Measures
of Success:
During tenure,
provide a minimum of three periods of instructions on assigned subjects at
troop meetings.
Attends PLCs
unless excused.
Attend JLT.
Resources: As a Troop Guide there are many resources available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster, Assistant Scoutmasters, Advisor to the instructors, and troop committee members. Your principle contact should be with the Advisor to the instructors or, in his absence, the Scoutmaster. Other resources include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: When you accept the position of patrol leader, you
agree to provide service and leadership in our troop. This responsibility
should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some of the things
you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. The Patrol Leader is elected by the patrol
members.
Responsible
to: Senior Patrol Leader.
Qualifications: Demonstrate active participation in troop
activities by showing rank and/or merit badge advancement in prior twelve
months.
Specific
Duties:
Plan and lead
patrol meetings and activities.
Keep patrol
members informed.
Assign patrol
members jobs and supervise their performance.
Represent the
patrol at all PLC meetings and at the annual program planning conference.
Prepare the
patrol to take part in all troop activities.
Work with other
troop leaders to make the troop run well.
Know what patrol
members and other leaders' capabilities are.
Measures
of Success:
Attend troop
meetings and PLCs unless excused by the patrol advisor. If unable to attend the PLC, arrange for the
patrol to be represented by the APL or other patrol member.
Attend most troop
campouts and service projects.
Assign patrol
members jobs and delegate duties.
Keep patrol members informed of
important troop information, especially if time-sensitive information is passed
via the troop “phone tree.”
On outings,
ensure that patrol members are accounted for and that good order and discipline
is maintained. Take immediate corrective
action when unsafe conditions are identified.
Attend JLT.
Resources: As patrol leader, there are many resources available
to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your Scoutmaster,
patrol Advisor, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee members. Other
resources include your fellow troop junior leaders, teachers, religious
advisers, and community leaders
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
Introduction: When you accept the position of Assistant Patrol
Leader (APL) you agree to provide service and leadership in our troop. This
responsibility should be fun and rewarding. This job description provides some
of the things you are expected to do while serving as a junior leader. The APL is elected by the patrol members and
will become the Patrol Leader at the next leadership change.
Responsible
to: Patrol Leader and patrol Advisor.
Qualifications: Demonstrate rank and/or merit badge
advancement in prior twelve months.
Specific
Duties:
·
Assist the patrol
leader in:
·
planning and
leading patrol meetings and activities
·
keeping patrol
members informed
·
preparing your
patrol to take part in troop activities
·
Take charge of
the patrol in the absence of the patrol leader.
·
Represent the
patrol at all patrol leaders' council meetings in the absence of the patrol
leader.
·
Help develop
patrol spirit.
·
Work with other
troop leaders to make the troop run well.
·
Know what patrol
members and other leaders’ capabilities are.
Measures
of Success:
·
Perform Patrol
Leader’s duties in the absence of the Patrol Leader.
·
Attend PLCs in
the absence of the Patrol Leader.
·
Attend most troop
campouts and service projects.
Resources: As assistant patrol leader, there are many resources
available to you to help you do your job. These include people such as your
Scoutmaster, patrol Advisor, Assistant Scoutmasters, and troop committee
members. Your principle contact should be
with the staff Advisors. Other resources include your fellow troop
junior, teachers, religious advisers, and community leaders.
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)
The Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR) is a youth liaison serving between the OA lodge and chapter and his troop. In his unit, he helps meet the needs of the unit and will serve as a communication and programmatic link to and from Arrowmen, adult leaders and Scouts who are not presently members of the Order. He will do this in a fashion that strengthens the mission of the lodge, purpose of the Order and the mission of the Boy Scouts of America. By setting a good example, he will enhance the image of the Order as a service arm to his unit.
TOAR Duties:
Qualifications:
Reports To: Assistant Senior Patrol Leader
Flow of Information
The following is a list of information that needs to flow between the TOAR and the Lodge or Chapter:
Lodge/Chapter to Unit:
Unit to Lodge/Chapter:
Does the unit conduct monthly campouts?
Does the unit attend a long-term camp?
Do the unit’s older scouts participate in high adventure programs?
Does the unit need assistance with its outdoor program?
Does the unit need assistance with community service projects?
Does the unit need assistance with training?
Do the unit’s OA members participate in Lodge and Chapter functions?
Name of the new OA Troop Representative
Reaction of the Troop members to the Lodge and Chapter program
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Den Chief Junior Assistant Scoutmaster Patrol Leader Assistant Patrol Leader Troop Order of the Arrow Representative (TOAR)