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There’s like a million reasons but broadly speaking the brown cover with the compass and photos on it is a happy medium before the organization tried to adapt outside of being an equivalent to the Nazi children’s program it was started to provide parity for.

Not really, but in terms of creating a group of children who have the skillset to be stormtroopers.

That’s good for American children (especially opening up the group to girls!), but it means the manual has lost a lot of what made it a good literal baby steps guide to building skills that will serve you in conflict.

Again, you want the last gasp of fascism edition because swimming a mile isn’t Nazi coded or woke, it’s continuing to live coded.

There’s probably a lot of differences but whatever you have is a great start to fitness, mental health and a ton of useful skills and ways of thinking.

Anything before the mid-2000s will have an advancement requirement where you jump fully clothed into water over your head, and either turn your clothes into flotation aids or throw them to shore.

They add new things and change course with every edition, IIRC around that edition (12th ed, 2009) they started padding out the book with filler bullshit like the food pyramid and how to tie a tie.

That one's fine.