Order of the Arrow

When inducted into the OA (Scouting’s honor society) you get a sense of brotherhood that stays with you for life. But can you be a life member of the OA?

Adult women may be inducted into the Order of the Arrow, but women under 21 aren’t allowed in the National Honor Society of the Boy Scouts.

NOAC 2015 participants will get a special-edition OA sash. That’s a sash with a white arrow on a red band— or the reverse of what Arrowmen typically wear.

Updated Jan. 29 That bright red arrow atop a crisp white band is an unmistakeable symbol that the wearer is one of Scouting’s best. The sash is an outward sign that the man or woman