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Flags - Advanced

Overview

Don’t just salute your flag – learn how to care for flags! You’ll even learn the respectful process used in your country to retire (remove) a worn flag from service. Don’t just fly your flags – learn how to honor what each stands for.

Requirements

1. Earn the Flags honor.

2. What is the study of flags called?

3. Know and identify the following basic types of flags and list one flag for each type:

  • a. Badge
  • b. Bicolor
  • c. Burgee
  • d. Canton
  • e. Couped Cross
  • f. Cross
  • g. Pennant
  • h. Quartered
  • i. Serration
  • j. Triangle
  • k. Triband
  • l. Guidon

4. Choose three national flags, including your own, that combined have all the following colors. On those flags, what do the colors represent:

  • a. Red
  • b. Blue
  • c. Black
  • d. Green
  • e. White
  • f. Yellow

5. Learn how to properly hoist and retrieve the following flags.

  • a. National flag
  • b. State/Province
  • c. Pathfinder/AY
  • d. Christian/Area (District or County)

6. Learn when and why a flag is flown at ½ staff.

7. What are the conditions that require a National flag to be lighted?

8. Teach proper techniques for folding and storing flags.

  • a. National flag
  • b. State/Province flag
  • c. Christian flag
  • d. AY/Pathfinder flags

9. Learn how to properly display your National flag.

  • a. Parade –alone, with another, or in a row of flags (US flag never dips)
  • b. On a platform
  • c. Vertically or horizontally on a wall
  • d. On a casket
  • e. In a group of flags on the same halyard
  • f. Flags from two or more nations

10. Properly carry one of the flags in # 8 as part of a Pathfinder Color Guard at a special event (Parade, Civic Event, Pathfinder Sabbath).

11. Learn how to properly & respectfully dispose of a torn/worn National flag. Be part of a ceremony to properly dispose of a National flag

Answer key & resources

Master awards

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