MacLaren Scouters

[dadgad]

Now you're talking a foreign language

Here, you're either a scout leader or you're not and any other terms are usually just local with perhaps the exception of the more usual "skip" for a scout leader and "akele" for a cub leader

Eight patrols in US Wood Badge. Beaver, Bobwhite, Eagle, Fox, Owl, Bear, Buffalo, and Antelope. Only one Wood Badge course, Wood Badge for the 21st Century, which applies to all program areas (Cubs, Boy Scouts, Venturing). The first question one is asked over here is, "What's your critter?" Hence, I used to be a ...

[EHCAlum]

The few, the proud the Antelopes

The Smokey Bear hat is rarely worn anymore except at Wood Badge by staffers, sad actually.

[Matty Ross]

The Smokey Bear hat is rarely worn anymore except at Wood Badge by staffers, sad actually

In some areas we see then a little more frequently

[davidg]

Eight patrols in US Wood Badge

Over here it's simply called "Advanced Training" or "Woodbadge Course". On successful completion you are awarded the Wood Badge and have to buy your own "Gilwell Scarf" and woggle. The scarf and woggle are identical to yours. You also become a life member of the 1st Gilwell Park Scout Troop

Leaders of various branches such as Beaver Scouts, Cub Scouts, Scouts and Venture Scouts are usually trained separately and each Scout Area (usually roughly equivalent to a county or state) runs its own courses, but leaders can train outside of their own area

[Matty Ross]

I used to be a beaver and a good ole beaver too..... 1987
I went back to Wood Badge a second time in 2008
And I'm still a beaver
On my second tour for WB staff and have already been asked to do a third. "KILTED"