AY Honors/Flags - Advanced/Requirements
Flags - Advanced
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Year Introduced:
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
