COMMANDS FOR FLAG CEREMONY

 

Please read this first:
Set up: 2 Scouts in Class A uniform hold the US Flag to the Right and TX Flag to the Left

Procession (upon command): As they walk, the 2 Scouts stay on their side. When the Scout or Leader calling the commands say "Color Guard, Halt, they stop in front of the Scout or Leader. When the Scout or Leader says "Post the colors", they cross and so the US Flag should end up on the left (when you’re facing the flags) and the Pack Flag should end up on the right. Such is BSA Flag etiquette.

 

·                    Please stand for the Presentation of the Colors

 

·                    Cub Scouts, Attention (Scouts stand still)

 

·                    Color Guard, Attention (Scouts stand still)

 

·                    Color Guard, Advance (Scouts walk slowly toward stands, crossing halfway).

 

·                    Color Guard, Halt (Scouts stop in front of Scout or Leader, don’t post the flags yet)

 

·                    Color Guard, Post the Colors (Scouts cross and post flags now: US on Left, Pack on Right)

 

·                    Cub Scouts Salute (Scouts and Leaders in uniform salute by their foreheads, all others put hand on chest) 

·        Please join me in The Pledge of Allegiance

 

 

I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of America, and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under God indivisible with liberty and justice for all.

 

·        Please join me for the Cubscout promise (Scouts do not say their name when Promise is said as a group)

 

I promise to do my best, to do my duty, to God and my country, to help other people and to obey the law of the Pack.

·        Please join me in the Law of the Pack.

The Cub Scout follows Akela. 

The Cub Scout helps the pack go.

The Pack helps the Cub Scout grow.

The Cub Scout gives good will.

 

 

 

·        Color Guard, Retreat.  (Leader follows the Scouts)