04/01/2022
For Immediate Release:
Boy Scouts of America Announces New Policy for All Scout Units
Irving, Texas – April 1, 2022 - To help ensure every young person participating in Scouting activities has a fun experience, the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) is implementing a new policy aimed at enhancing the ability to identify Scouts who have wandered off from their unit during large gatherings such as Council Camporees and National Jamborees. Effective today, all Scouts will be required to wear, as part of their official BSA uniform, socks emblazed with the likeness of their Scoutmaster.
"Younger scouts tend to get lost in crowds," says Eagle Scout Smith Brown, "but now they can be spotted and quickly returned to their Scoutmaster."
Kate Matthews, Marketing Supervisor at Boy Scouts of America, believes extensive field testing in recent months has proven socks to be the ideal loss prevention tool for units. “Before settling on socks, we beta tested chips implanted subcutaneously. However, during testing at The Summit in West Virginia on the Big Zip, a 3000 feet long zipline, some Scouts reported their chip migrated to the surface upon reaching a speed of 50 mph.”
Eagle Scout Landon Hodgin says “a great advantage of socks is that as our Scoutmaster ages and starts to wrinkle, we don’t need to purchase new socks. We can just stop pulling up the socks when they creep down’
"I get the safety part, but I’ll buy socks to swap with other Scouts at Order of the Arrow and National Jamboree events,” Life Scout Dylan Hirko proudly boasts. “Socks are going to be more popular to trade than patches and neckerchiefs.”
“We anticipate only the complete collectors set of Chief Scout Executive bobblehead dolls to be more popular than Scoutmaster emblazoned socks,” Matthews shared. “So, we plan later this summer to roll out a line of matching water bottles, backpacks, t-shirts, belts, belt buckles, hats and caps, slides, neckerchiefs, loops, sashes, nameplates, tents, sleeping bags, bags and totes, jewelry, key chains, mugs, wallets, class rings, coins, flags, badges and patches, blankets and afghans, kitchen accessories, Dutch ovens, pens and pencils, notebooks, plaques, ribbons, trophies and statues – all with Scoutmaster faces.”
From the very beginning of the Scouting movement in the United States, socks have been an iconic symbol. Today, the Boy Scouts of America Escapes the Indoors to Adventures On wearing a new generation of legwear.
Now is a great time to be a Scout.™
Contact:
William Lee
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1325 Walnut Hill Lane
Irving, Texas 75015
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