RE: [Philmont]: Not Kilts

My interpretation of a) is that no scouting official, council or local
exec board or committee can authorize a change in the uniform. It
doesn't say anything about a scout (or scouter) wearing a clown costume
or any other non-uniform article of clothing while not in uniform. I
think this is just saying that local authority doesn't extend to
defining a local uniform that differs from the official uniform. OK.
If there is a rule that says everyone must wear the official BSA uniform
at Philmont, then it would have a deeper meaning. I'm not aware that
that is the case and experience would certainly suggest otherwise. Once
you're in the non-uniform realm, item a) below is meaningless (I would
think).

Item b) on the other hand "might" be interpreted as no camo. But that
would suggest that a lot of hunters would violate that rule too. Item
b) isn't specific to scouts. Also, I've never seen anyone in the US
military staking a claim on the kilt as an official uniform. :)

  
Randy Pfeifer

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From: owner-philmont@troop47.com [mailto:owner-philmont@troop47.com] On
Behalf Of Joe Tavares
Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2006 10:53 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list philmont
Subject: RE: [Philmont]: Not Kilts

To clarify (and this took a while for me to find):

"BSA Rules and Regulations, Article X, Section 4, Clause 4. Prohibition
of Alteration or Imitation:

a). No alteration of, or additions to, the official uniforms, as
described in the official publications, or the rules and regulations
covering the wearing of the uniform and the proper combinations thereof
on official occasions, may be authorized by any Scouting official or
local Council or any local executive board or committee, except the
National Executive Board after consideration by the Program Group
Committee.

b) Imitation of United States Army, Navy, Marine Corps or Air Force
uniforms is prohibited, in accordance with the provisions of Act of
Congress, approved June 3, 1916."

I do want to note that in researching for the response to a private
query regarding this rule, I discovered that, to the best that I can
determine, the Boy Scouts of America has not electronically posted the
BSA Rules and Regulations, in whole or in part, at least not that Google
can find. I was left with identifying this article because of the
numerous references and referrals to it by both individual Scouters and
by councils. I am fairly "Ivory Soap certain" that this is the accurate
representation of the clause, but if it's not, then I suggest someone
identify and post the exact language they have discovered.

My interpretation of a) is that the pubs we use on a daily basis to
uniform our troops are to be used as the official uniform and straying
from that uniforming code would make you non-uniform. Essentially, as
long as we stay on the straight and narrow of the guidelines, we are
cool, otherwise we aren't. I suspect it means that we probably don't
have any more latitude to wear clown costumes that we do camo.

What this has to do with pith helmets or kilts, I have no idea. I am,
again, simply responding to a request from one of the list subscribers
to identify the source for my comment about (para)military clothing.

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Received on Tue Mar 21 16:53:27 2006