The Return of Moosehead One

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At the most recent Troop meeting, it was time for the Personal Management skill session. Personal Management is an Eagle required merit badge that does take at least 3 months to complete (and it can't be rushed like other, simpler merit badges), so it's best for scouts to earn it early on to get it out of the way. To earn a merit badge, one requires a merit badge counselor, and former Assistant Scoutmaster Bill Ossman is a counselor for that badge, the original member of the "Mooseheads" (the nickname given to the Assistant Scoutmasters) and an all-around awesome guy to know. Mr. Ossman returned to visit to the troop and presented the skill session for the scouts. Keeping the atmosphere constantly filled with an air of humor with his duck jokes, Mr. Ossman nevertheless stressed the importance of the badge and covered all the basics that a scout needs to attain it, such as how small expenditures on small snacks and "girlfriend-things" can turn out to be a very large expenditure over time. He also gave out a little test beforehand for scouts to check and see how much they knew about personal management in general (Turpin Scouts could get extra time, according to him).

When Mr. Ossman finished his wonderful skill session, there was an unusually long period of time left in the meeting and only the game still remaining on the "to do" list. As such, dodgeball was quickly set up and an extra-long match was played. Everybody who participated all got in one good shot, but the undisputed juggernaut of Dodgeball certainly is SPL Alex R., who might as well have been pulling Matrix-like dodges as he hurled dodgeballs at his opponents. Even so, the game had been enjoyable enough that everybody left the meeting with a smile, or at least a few bruises.

Ben Hallenbeck, Historian

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