{"id":4813,"date":"2019-12-20T07:52:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:52:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/need-a-new-unit-just-add-water\/"},"modified":"2019-12-20T07:52:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T13:52:49","slug":"need-a-new-unit-just-add-water","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/need-a-new-unit-just-add-water\/","title":{"rendered":"Need a New Unit? Just Add Water!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><em>Article contributed by Owen McCulloch, National Venturing and Sea Scouting Director<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In November 2019, the US Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCG-AUX) announced their new national official youth program: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scouting.org\/programs\/sea-scouts\/\">Sea Scouts BSA<\/a>.\u00a0 There are over 800 USCG-AUX flotillas (like a council) across the USA (except ND, SD, WY\u2026sorry!), and each of them has been asked by their national organization to start a new Sea Scout ship (unit) with the BSA.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve got a page dedicated to answering questions about how this works:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/seascout.org\/cgaux\/\">https:\/\/seascout.org\/cgaux\/<\/a>, and have held multiple webinars with the USCG-AUX letting them know how to start a Sea Scout ship.\u00a0 There are also lots of resources available on the national <a href=\"https:\/\/seascout.org\/\">Sea Scouting webpage<\/a> to help you.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on how councils can take advantage of this new national relationship please watch this 8-minute video: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/eurZtO5ph3E\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/eurZtO5ph3E<\/a>, and email <a href=\"mailto:relationships@seascout.org\">relationships@seascout.org<\/a> for more assistance.<\/p>\n<p>Get \u201con board\u201d with this exciting new membership initiative and start a Sea Scout ship in your area. Just add water!<\/p>\n<p><em>Scouting Wire would like to thank Owen for submitting this article. Photo: Map of USCG-AUX flotilla contacts across the USA.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/scoutingwire.org\/need-a-new-unit-just-add-water\/\">Need a New Unit? Just Add Water!<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/scoutingwire.org\/\">Scouting Wire<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article contributed by Owen McCulloch, National Venturing and Sea Scouting Director In November 2019, the US Coast Guard Auxiliary (USCG-AUX) announced their new national official youth program: Sea Scouts BSA.\u00a0 There are over 800 USCG-AUX flotillas (like a council) across the USA (except ND, SD, WY\u2026sorry!), and each of them has been asked by their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4813\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totscouting.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}