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Cub Scout Insignia Left Front Tiger Cub yearpin
Virginia Aguilar asked: Can you explain further about the service pins. At the end of your 1st year in Cub Scouts you have graduated from Tiger Cubs and you are now presented a 1yr star with an orange background. Correct. Tiger Cubs wear a one year (or plain star without the "1" in the center) year pin.
 At the end of your next year you are presented with a service star that goes on a yellow background. My question is this. Would the service star presented after that 2nd year for the yellow background be a 1yr or a 2yr star. It would be a one year service star on a yellow background, to represent the one year spent as part of Cub Scouting. Before Tiger Cubs was incorporated into the Cub Scouting program, the BSA treated Tiger Cubs as a separate component of Cub Scouting (just like they do with regard to Varsity Scouting and Boy Scouting. Varsity Scouts wear a different backed year pin than their Boy Scout peers). This is why after the first and sole year in Tiger Cubs, a Cub Scout "starts over again" with year ONE as a Cub Scout. At the end of the first year of Cub Scouting, the tenure star he should receive is a ONE YEAR service star on a YELLOW backing, to represent the first year spent as a Cub Scout. Since you are wearing both stars it would seem to me that you would wear 2 1yr stars. Correct. On the uniform, the Cub Scout would have the one year star for Tiger Cubs and the one year pin for Cub Scouts.
 If you chose not to wear the Tiger background you >could wear a 2yr star on the yellow background. Is this correct or am I still confused? No, that's NOT correct. Remember, Virginia, not every boy starts out in Cub Scouting as a Tiger Cub. Some boys enter Cub Scouting at the first year of Cub Scouting; and still other boys come in during the WEBELOS years (year one or two). So that's why it's important NOT to lump together the Cub Scout and Tiger Cub year pins....that one year of Tiger Cub Scouting is important and should be distinguished from the one, two, three or four years spent as a Cub Scout. Settummanque!
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