don't join the scouts

[nix-j-c]

Instead of joining the scouts where you learn a few knots go camping and maybe a bit of kayaking why don't you join the sea cadets. The scouts are quite frankly lame compared to any of the cadet groups.

I was a scout and when ever we went on trips the adults did most of the stuff for us a babied us and even the older ones.

But at cadets the only thing that the adults do is some of the cooking.

The only reason why we don't have as many cadets is that we spend our money on enhancing the time of the cadets and not on advertising.

So who agrees that the scouts are lame?

[nix-j-c]

sea scouts are different to sea cadets.

Sea cadets is a youth organisation based around a naval theme. (our number one uniform are the same as what the navy wear but that plus the number 4 unifrom only costs �10 + money for shoes or boots)

Cadets get to do; cooking, chartwork, metoerology, seamanship, piping, drill, first aid (we do these at our units but if you want to do a specific one which there isnt an instructor for you can book to do them in a weekend or over a few days if it is at a higher level.)
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scuba diving, kayaking/ canoeing, swimming, sailing, powerboating, rowing, riflery, trips to other parts of the country and abroad outside of the unit at weekends and on trips.

[madmaggot]

It's horses for courses, nix.

Also, not everyone is lucky enough to live by the sea.

Enjoy what you do and try to publicise it but try to resist the temtation to belittle what others choose to do. (Then you'll be a man my son)!

[Ankou]

i was in cubs, scouts and sea cadets. loved them all equally. the local scouts do a lot more than i used to asa lad, lots more outdoor actoivites than just camping and orienteering these days.

[spudqueen]

Glad you enjoy what you do, but the scout group I know do a lot of things other than camping and kayaking, they also do first aid, shooting, climbing etc etc, and not only that but they have formed great friendships through coming through beavers, cubs and school together, and there are plenty of girls in the troup aswell.

[rojash]

I was in the cubs and scouts when I was a kid, By the age of 15 I'd visited had most of Europe, and the Channel Islands. I'd been boating on the Norfolk Broads, and spent a fortnight piloting a boat round the canals in the Midlands. We also used to go on manoeuvres with the TA. I'm pretty sure that (as a working class kid in the 50s) none of this would have been possible without the scouts.

[sn�gs]

I read today that the 'fake' adventure Bear Grillis is the new Chief Scout... setting a good example right from the off then...

[craft1948]

I quite like the uniforms...toggles are good

[ELVIS68]

snags, Bear Grylls is not a fake, so he stays in hotels inbetween filming, c`mon hardly fake is it?

The snakes and elephant sh!t he eats aint fake

[nix-j-c]

He is a fake.

He claims that he is staying out at night all on his own when infact he is goign to a hotel and coming out about 100 metres from the hotel saying he is in the same spot and because it is dark you don't realy know.

THIS IS NOT A GOOD EXAMPLE TO SET OR FOLLOW.

Cadets start at the age of ten with the junior section so at least by tha age a child can make its own decision about starting or not. cubs and rainbows star at 6 i think. How can a child make a decision for themselves at that age ???

[Ankou]

a decision about what? its just a club where they get to do something different and make friends. kids soon let you know when they have lost interest in something.

[cazzz1975]

agree madmaggot

[mollykins]

I just looked on the sea cadet website and there are units all over the country including Birmingham.

[nix-j-c]

Thats right. Even at my sea cadets we do quite a lot of the stuff on the river and lake nearby.

Birmingham sea cadets probly do stuff on their nearest lake or river and go to the coast for trips.

[Ankou]

my sea cadets was as far from the sea as you could get. we used to row and sail on the thames and i had a yearly residential week at culdrose where we went on ships and helicopter flights. i still do sailing now.