Troop 174 Patrol Duties on Campouts and Duty Roster

A good duty roster will assign equal work for everyone. It will help maintain order and everyone will know their assigned duties and not have to worry that they are doing more than their share. Everyone will be assured the opportunity to be an active member of their patrol.

• Cooks: ---Cooks may have to breakaway from an activity early in order to start the meal.
  • Prepare and serve the meal ON TIME; put away extra food and put trash from the food preparation in the trash; put wash and rinse water on to heat up during the meal; dump hot grease before they eat; assure everyone receives an equal portion (either serve the food to patrol members and guests or tell everyone the amount they can have). The cooks serve themselves last. Try to have everything ready at the same time. Lead Patrol in Grace.
    Remember: CLEAN AS YOU GO

• Clean up: ---Wash the dishes; wipe down the stove, tables, and food preparation area; put away the clean dishes; dump dirty dish water (if needed) in sump; hang dish cloths so they can dry and secure the dinning area. No dirty dishes are to be left and all food is to be put away.
• Fireman: ---If the meal is to be cooked over an open fire, the scout may have to breakaway from an activity early in order to establish a good fire for the cooks. If stoves are being used, set up and fuel stoves.

• Campsite ---Check condition of ax yard, fire pit, lantern mantels, and latrine (patrol and Troop); check condition of dining fly and kitchen sump. Get Down and/or Hang Bear Bags
• Waterman ---Get sufficient water for next meal including drinking, cooking and cleanup water. Should be available during the meal in case cooks need more water. If necessary water should be filtered or treated in time to be used for the meal.

Everyone: Pick up trash in camp; straighten up personal gear; check condition of tent. Make sure the area is secured for expected weather conditions.

Remember more hands will make the work easier. The patrol members are not dismissed to attend other activities until the kitchen and patrol areas are secured.

You are not ready, if your patrol is not ready. The Troop is not ready, unless all Patrols are ready. When the Troop is ready, then you are ready.

Duty Roster Preparation Made Easy

Making up the duty roster can be difficult when you have to assign the work to your friends. One method to avoid this problem is to:

1. Complete the duty roster using numbers (make sure each number gets an equal amount of work)
2. Schedule in Scouts who need to pass off requirements FIRST. (Cooling, Fire building, etc)
3. (Without letting anyone see the number distribution), let everyone choose a number - equal to the number of patrol members on the outing. PL takes remaining/last number.
4. As everyone picks a number, write down their name next to that number
5. After everyone has a number, announce the results and post the duty roster.

TROOP 174 PATROL DUTY ROSTER

NO ONE SWITCHES DUTIES UNLESS APPROVED BY THE SPL or SCOUTMASTER

_________________________________ PATROL DUTY ROSTER

Dates:

	Friday Dinner	Saturday Breakfast	Saturday Lunch	Saturday Dinner	Sunday Breakfast	Sunday Lunch
HEAD COOK	1	8	7	6	5	4
ASST. COOK	2	1	8	7	6	5
HEAD CLEAN-UP	3	2	1	8	7	6
ASST. CLEAN-UP	4	3	2	1	8	7
WATER-MAN	5	4	3	2	1	8
FIRE-MAN	6	5	4	3	2	1
CAMP-SITE	7	6	5	4	3	2
As Needed	8	7	6	5	4	3

ASSIGNMENTS FOR SCOUTS ON CAMPOUT:

1)	5)
2)	6)
3)	7)
4)	8)

Notes: Scouts must check out with PL when job is finished.