Silver Antelope Award | |||
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Owner | Boy Scouts of America | ||
Country | United States | ||
Created | 1942 | ||
Awarded for | outstanding service to youth within a BSA Council Service Territory (formerly within a BSA Region or National Service Territory) | ||
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The Silver Antelope Award is a distinguished service award presented by the Boy Scouts of America for outstanding service to young people. From 1942 to 2021 it recognized service within one of the geographical regions of the BSA. Beginning in 2022, with a reorganization of the BSA, it is presented for service in a Council Service Territory (from 2022-2023 National Service Territory.)
Recipients may be nominated and selected for their efforts in the Council Service Territory and/or for service to the Council Service Territory through various national committees. [1]
The award is made by the National Court of Honor and the recipient must be a registered adult member of the Boy Scouts of America.
The award consists of a silver antelope suspended from a white and orange ribbon worn around the neck. Recipients may wear the corresponding square knot, with a white strand over an orange strand, on the BSA uniform. [2]
The award was created in 1942 and first issued in 1943. An orange-white-orange ribbon bar was used for informal uniform wear until 1946, when ribbon bars were replaced by the current square knot insignia. [3]
Using the United States Military as the model, silver awards are the highest awards in the BSA. [4] [5]
From the first awards in 1943 through 2024, there have been only 3,298 recipients of the Silver Antelope. The current nomination form for the award [6] limits the award to 32 per year (two for each Council Service Territory).
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