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Cub Scout Pack 362
(El Cajon-La Mesa, California)
 
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 Standard Flag Ceremony

 

  • Personnel: Flag bearers and color guards for American flag and Pack flag. (If there is an uneven number of color guards; the American flag has precedence and should have most guards)
  • Equipment: American flag, Pack flag, flag stands, recorded music if desired.
  • Setting: Flag stands in are place at front of room or on stage.
    • (See Our Flag for proper arrangement)

 

  1. Flag bearers and color guards are in position in rear of room.
  2. Speaker may be in rear of room or in any convenient place nearby.
  3. Cubmaster usually the meeting to order and introduces the den who will perform the ceremony.
  4. At this time, the speaker advances to the front of the room. (Make certain everyone can hear him)

 

Opening Ceremony

 

Speaker Comments
Attention! Will the audience please rise? (Pause) Speaker's commands should be given loud and clear. Color guard waits at the rear of the room for the audience to stand and the room to get quiet.
Color guard, advance! US flag should be carried on the marching right and in the lead of the procession. When the flag bearers reach the front of the room, the US flag crosses first to the left followed by the other flags crossing to the right of the stage when viewed from the audience.
Speaker's eyes should follow the US flag until it is in position in the front of the room. Flag bearers and color guards take position in front of room near flag stands. They stand at attention, facing the audience. The flags are held vertically.
COLOR GUARD POST THE COLORS! The US flag is placed in its stand; then the flag bearer and color guard salute it and step back into place. The pack flag is then posted; its bearer and color guard salute it and step back into place. (The American flag is always posted or raised first, and removed or lowered last)
HAND SALUTE! Everyone salutes.
Please repeat with me 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.
TWO Salutes are dropped.
PLEASE JOIN WITH ME IN RECITING THE CUB-SCOUT PROMISE Speaker raises the Cub Scout sign with right hand.
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.
COLOR GUARD, DISMISSED! Flag bearers lead procession to back of room, with speaker following last.
Audience, please be seated  

 

Closing Ceremony

 

Speaker Comments
Attention! Will the audience please rise? _Pause_ Speaker's commands should be given loud and clear. Color guard waits at the rear of the room for the audience to stand and the room to get quiet
Color guard, advance! US flag guard and bearer and pack flag guard and bearer walk down the aisle and to the flags. They stand behind the flags, facing the audience.
Color Guard, salute! The guards and bearers salute.
Color Guard, retire the colors! US flag is removed first
HAND SALUTE! Everyone, with the exception of the flag bearers and guards, salutes. The US flag stays on the marching right as the guards and bearers proceed down the aisle to the rear of the room.
TWO Salutes are dropped, Speaker leaves.