Armchair Generals and Permanently Bewildered03 Aug 2007 05:58 pm
By Wellington
Typical BBC removed from reality question. ‘is scouting relevant today?’
Well it is MORE relevant today then it has ever been. Scouting teaches you skills associated with the army. We are currently fighting 2 wars and are short of troops.
So scouting is very very relevant today. Why on earth do they allow girls in the scouts though? They have the guides? Why do they want to be in scouts?
Would you have men and women fighting together in the same combat unit? No.
Sam
I have to say, I think you’re being a bit sexist here. If a girl can take on the Troop Leader and earn her Knife Fighting Badge like anyone else then I think she deserves to go to war alongside all the other kids.
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Hmmm… What a lot of the kooks (both pro and anti-scouting) forget is that it was started by a bloke who was a bit surprised the army manuals he’d written were being followed by young boys, motivating him to create for them something more suitable and peaceful.