- White Stag TLTC Patch - From the collection of Raleigh Whitham. TLTC translates to Troop Leader Training Conference. TLTC was the stage of evolution between Silver Bars and JLTC, and very likely the first time the course was known as White Stag in the Crossroads of America Council. I now believe this patch is likely an example of the first itieration of the design we all know and love, and is no older than approximately 1982. It is definitely post-1980, as the program in '80 was Silver Bars and used different insignia. Straight dope on this design authority Mr. Richard Parrott, CD 990, CD 000 via Discord on July 27, 2026: "FYI, if you don’t know, Rex hatch designed the White Stag patch originally. It’s not a oval. It’s to half circles with two small straight lines connecting them. I thought it was an oval when I redrew it, but he corrected me when he was at one of out training weekends." I took this photograph at the 2025 Staff Reunion.
- 2025 White Stag Staff Reunion Commemorative Patch Rendering - The real thing has metallic green thread and looks even cooler. The Reunion Committee had a limited run of fifty patches produced and they were issued to attendees of the 2025 Staff Reunion. One of these days I'll scan mine and post it here.
- Hoosier Trails Council White Stag Badge - From the collection of Raleigh Whitham. Note the absence of JLTC or NYLT and the alternate color scheme. This patch has a button hanger loop at the top.
- White Stag JLTC Staff Council Strip - Made by Eastern Emblem, this is one of the two White Stag Staff council strips I was originally issued in 1998. This one is installed on my period-correct made in USA 2004 White Stag Staff uniform above the 040 troop numerals, Quartermaster patch, and Trained patch. This is on the circa 1980 spec tan over OD uniform I still wear to this day when its time to put on a Class A, complete with BSA webbed belt and buckle set to brass-on-brass. I refuse to wear the Bangladeshian and Chinese garbage that the organization is peddling as the uniform now. The people who do purchasing at the National Council need to nut-up and buy American to support jobs for American working people. From my personal collection.
- White Stag JLTC Staff Council Strip - Mr. Richard Parrott (CD 990, CD 000) recently gave us this background on the White Stag JLTC Council Strip: "I think it was Chuck and I had an idea of making the shoulder patch for White stag. We had to get the council Directors approval before we did it. He gave us the approval was not much trouble. Then I decided to make a silver border for staff and gold for the participants and that’s how it happened." This would have been under the exemplary administration of Mr. Scott Clabaugh, Chief Scout Executive for the Crossroads of America Council in the late '90s and early '00s. Mr. Clabaugh was one of the many people who helped make White Stag as successful as we were at the time, and I am forever thankful for his (and many, many others') support and leadership in making us the great program that we came to be. Mr. Clabaugh's leadership resulted in massive, unparalleled success for the Crossroads of America Council as a whole. We were very fortunate to have Mr. Clabaugh as the captain of our team.
- Hoosier Trails Council White Stag JLTC Council Strip and Badge - From the collection of Tim Palmer (CD 000) we see these fine examples of Hoosier Trails Council White Stag JLTC Council Strip and White Stag Badge. Hoosier Trails Council is the neighbor immediately to the south of Crossroads of America, and there was a good deal of cross-pollenation between the Crossroads and Hoosier Trails White Stag programs in the early oughts. I consider Hoosier Trails Council White Stag Staff an extension of our own CAC White Stag staff, and we were fortunate to have the opportunity to help them establish their course.
- Nationalized NYLT Council Strip - This is the council strip used by the current program. Crossroads of America Council is appended across the top. Likely every council that hosts an NYLT mandatorily uses this patch, probably the only difference being the council name. Old local traditions and outdated syllabus elements need not apply. Courtesy Sean Critzman.
- Crossroads of America Council Strips - I don't know for sure when this design came into use. Perhaps it was the first CAC strip developed when Central Indiana Council merged with Kikthawenund Council, Delaware County Council, and Whitewater Valley Council in 1972 to form the CAC. I don't know that I've ever seen an older version of a CAC strip. This was the strip that was current when I joined Cub Scouts in 1993 and continued on to right around 2000 when it was replaced by the first version of the road design below. Neither Tim nor I remember what the gold outer border variant represents. The standard strip is the one with the blue outer border stitching. From the collection of Tim Palmer.
- Crossroads of America Council Strip - This is an example of the first road design, and came out right around 2000, replacing the above council strip. There were at least twelve variants of this released over the past 25 years or so through the Friends of Scouting (FOS) campaign that was themed on the twelve points of the Scout Law. Basically if you donated some amount to the fundraising campaign, you would receive whatever that year's point of the Scout Law themed council strip was. These variants are identifiable by different color palettes and the presence of a point of the Scout Law and FOS.
- Crossroads of America Council Strip - This is the current design circa 2026. BSA has been removed and Crossroads of America has been moved up to span the top of the patch.
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