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January 10, 2012

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January 25, 2010

Historical Merit Badge Program

In honor of the BSA's 100th Anniversary, today's generation of Scouts will get the unique opportunity to experience some of the activities their predecessors enjoyed. That's possible thanks to the BSA's new Historical Merit Badge Program, a set of four discontinued merit badges that today's Scouts can earn.

Boys can earn any or all of these merit badges:

• Signaling - First offered in 1910 (as Signaller merit badge) and discontinued in 1992.
• Tracking - First offered in 1911 (as Stalker merit badge) and discontinued in 1952.
• Pathfinding - First offered in 1911 and discontinued in 1952.
• Carpentry - First offered in 1911 and discontinued in 1952.

Scouts can start working on them NOW. See http://usscouts.org/meritbadges.asp for links to the badge requirements.

The merit badges will count for towards a boy's rank advancement. Work on the badges is not to commence prior to January 1, 2010 and is to be finished no later than December 31, 2010.

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