Bugling Merit Badge Helps and Documents

Scouts who are doing the requirements for the Bugling merit badge will learn 10 different bugle calls. They will also learn to care for a bugle and serve as troop bugler for at least 3 months.

In 2010, BSA announced that it was going to discontinue the Bugling merit badge and merge it into the Music merit badge. The response to this announcement was so overwhelming that BSA reversed this decision and Bugling remains a separate badge.

Get the Bugling Merit Badge pamphlet

Printable helps for requirements:

Printable requirements for Bugling Merit Badge

Printable checkoff sheet for Bugling Merit Badge

Printable note sheet for Bugling Merit Badge

Printable checkoff sheet for all Scouts BSA merit badges

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