INTENSIVE TRAINING IN THE GREEN BAR PATROL:
THIRD TRAINING MEETING
THEME: Patrol Hikes
Preliminary Reading Assignments:
For Scoutmaster and adult leaders:
Scoutmaster Handbook (Hillcourt's Fourth Edition)
Chapter 7: "The Patrol Carries On"
Chapter 9: "The Troop Goes Hiking"
For Patrol Leaders:
Handbook for Patrol Leaders (Hillcourt's 1950s Edition)
Chapter 6: "Patrol Hikes"
Needed Material:
 | Paper and Pencils. |
| Patrol Record Book. |
| Tin cans, pieces of wire, hammer, large nail, copper rivets. |
| Map. |
| Hiking equipment for demonstration. |
PROGRAM:
(a) Opening Ceremony: Senior Patrol Leader stages ceremony which was chosen favorite at the Second Training Meeting.
(b) Business Period: short, but sweet (see Second Training Meeting).
(c) Hike Instruction: Short discussion on "Patrol Hikes," including leadership requirements, hiking technique, based upon Hiking Chapter in the Scout Handbook. Explain difference between "Sandwich Hikes" (a hike on which you don't want to be tied down by fire making and cooking), and "Chop Hikes," (a hike where fire building and/or cooking have a prominent place in the program), and announce that forthcoming Leaders' Hike will be a Chop Hike. If possible, have a demonstration of hiking equipment.
(d) Hike Planning: Divide the Patrol up into four groups, and give each group the responsibility for developing the details of one of the following items in preparation for the hike.
1. Route: (Hikemaster in charge). Plan an appropriate route on a map of the local territory.
2. Equipment: (Quartermaster in charge). Prepare list of essential equipment to take along.
3. Commissary: (Grubmaster in charge). Suggest menu and food list.
4. Activities: (Assistant Patrol Leader in charge). Kind of hike, activities on out-trip, at the hike destination and on the return journey. After the plans have been completed, they are discussed by the whole Patrol, until final adoption. Distribute leadership, decide upon meeting place and time, and equipment and grub to be brought by each Scout.
(e) Instruction Game: "Uncle Quizzie.'' Have an Assistant Scoutmaster develop about thirty questions on outdoor Scouting, such as fire-building, cooking, knife and axe, compass, mapping, signaling. Divide group into two teams and run game like a radio quiz, with alternating boys of alternating teams answering questions put to them. Each correct answer means 100 for the team, partly correct answer a proportionate amount of points. Team with most points at end of game is winner.
(f) Work Period: Making of simple cooking pots from No. 10 tin cans. Have such a pot ready to show how it is to be done.
(g) Recreation:
1. Games: one or two Scout Games, such as Hunt the Coon, Dry Repast, Who Nose Most? (If games planned for previous meetings have not all been used, make use of them now.)
2. Singing: Go through the Scout Song Book and pick out and rehearse a couple of songs suitable for the open road.
(h) Closing Ceremony: Use closing ceremony voted most popular at Second Training Meeting.
