NATIONAL CAMPING AWARD

The National Camping Award is both an annual and a cumulative award for units which receive a ribbon for the troop flag.  Individuals, scouts, and scouters Can also qualify for a cumulative patch by participating in campouts with their families, or patrols as well as unit campouts.  Any combination of unit and individual campouts can be used to qualify for the cumulative award.  The unit should record its campouts on the 1993 printing of the National Camping log (Number 33690).

The patch is an individual award for which all members of a unit may not qualify.  Only those members who have met the cumulative camp out levels may qualify for one of the four awards.  Each individual members needs to keep track of his personal campouts and have them approved by the scoutmaster or assistant scoutmaster.  The patch could easily be placed on a backpack as well as on the right pocket of the uniform shirt.

To earn the annual National Camping Award, a unit must have reached one of these levels of camping achievement:

            10 days and nights of camping                        Unit Award Number 17831

            20 days and nights of camping                        Unit Award Number 17832

            30 days and nights of camping                        Unit Award Number 17833

            50 days and nights of camping                        Unit Award Number 17834

To earn the cumulative National Camping Award, a unit must fulfill one of the following levels of camping during the entire history of the units:

            100 days and night of camping                    Unit award Number 17827

            250 days and night of camping                    Unit award Number 17828

            500 days and night of camping                    Unit award Number 17829

            1000 days and night of camping                    Unit award Number 17830

The ribbon can also be displayed with the troop flag.

Individual scouts and scouters can also qualify for a National Camping Award patch provided that the required cumulative number of days and nights of camping has been met.  This total can include any combination of camping with the scouts family, patrol or unit.

            100 days and nights of camping                    Patch Number 00296

            250 days and nights of camping                    Patch Number 00297

            500 days and nights of camping                    Patch Number 00298

            1000 days and nights of camping                  Patch Number 00299

Both the unit and individual cumulative awards are retroactive to January 1, 1991