Patrol Method
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Object of Camping
Patrol Camping
Patrol Hikes
Gilcraft Patrol System
The Patrol System
Court of Honor (PLC)
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Patrol Leader's Creed
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Ten Essentials
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Each Patrol should have its own separate tent at some distance (at least 100 yards) from the others. This latter is with a view to developing the responsibility of the Patrol Leader for his distinct unit.
--Baden-Powell, "The Object of Camping"
In Scout camps the tents are not pitched in lines and streets as in military camps, but are dotted about in Patrol units, fifty or a hundred yards apart or more, in a big circle round the Scoutmaster's tent, which, with the flag and camp fire, is generally in the centre.
--Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys, Yarn 9
In Scouts' camps the tents are not pitched in lines and streets as in military camps, but are dotted about, 50 or 100 yards or more, in a big circle round the Scoutmaster's tent. This keeps each Patrol separate as a unit.
--Roland Philipps, The Patrol System, Patrol in Camp.
It is necessary to point out at the start that the Patrol System is not one method in which Scouting for boys can be carried out, but that it is the only method.
-Roland Philipps, The Patrol System, Chapter 1
The Patrol Method is not ONE method in which Scouting can be carried on. It is the ONLY method!
-Green Bar Bill's paraphrase of
Philipps
(often incorrectly attributed to B-P)
One of our methods in the Scout movement for taming a hooligan is to appoint him head of a Patrol. He has all the necessary initiative, the spirit and the magnetism for leadership, and when responsibility is thus put upon him it gives him the outlet he needs for his exuberance of activity, but gives it in a right direction.
--Baden-Powell, from the article "Are Our Boys Degenerating?" circa 1918.
What It Adds Up to:
1. Be a Leader;
2. Be a
Friend;
3. Be Ahead.
--William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt's "leadership theory," Handbook for Patrol Leaders
-- William "Green Bar Bill" Hillcourt,
Handbook
for Patrol Leaders,
"Patrol Instruction."
Patrol Leader Training supplements "Leadership Training" by concentrating on "How to lead a Patrol into the backwoods," rather than "How to be a leader:"
The authority on the Patrol System
recommended by Baden-Powell
in Scouting for Boys
How to run Troop Meetings that support the Patrol Method
All those "sage quotes" of Baden-Powell and Green Bar Bill refer to a Patrol Method based on physical distance (50-100 yards between Patrols, and significant monthly Patrol Hikes). Modern lightweight technology helps meet those high standards of yesteryear.
The Patrol Method was brought to America by the great Danish Scouter William Hillcourt.
"...each Patrol should have its own separate tent at some distance (at least 100 yards) from the others."
In some forms of Traditional Scouting, a new Patrol Leader serves for a probation period of four to six weeks following his election or appointment. Before his trial period begins, the Patrol Leader recites the "Patrol Leader's Creed," which lists all of his responsibilities. If he lives up to this creed, he is formally sworn in at the Patrol Leader's Promise Ceremony at the end of his trial period.
Sample Point System for Encouraging Progress Toward Earning the "National Honor Patrol Award" (Formally the "Baden-Powell Patrol Award"), and Other Traditional Patrol Activities.
Simple Troop Formations and the Silent Signs with which to signal them.
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