Night Ops started as Mafeking in 2000, when Steve Nafziger and other adults from Troop GA-0594 found the idea and modified it for their troop. In the beginning, it was just one troop. Then other troops found out and asked to join. Then, the sister troops asked to join.
Now, they have two weekend events – one for Trail Life Troops and one for American Heritage Girl Troops. A typical weekend brings on the order of 19 troops — around 170 youth forming roughly 32 patrols, with about 92 registered adults volunteering through the night.
AHG Troop AL-0125 started going in 2019 and loved it. We’ve loved it so much we decided we needed to do our own. We worked with Beth and team to come up with our own flavor of Night Ops. We hope you like ours just as much.
Event Staff
This event could not happen without a lot of volunteers. We have outlined the different volunteer positions that are needed to run a Night Ops event of this size. Full job descriptions for every volunteer role are now available.
- Event Organizers (1-3)
- Health & Safety Leads (2)
- Treasurer (1)
- Advance Team Volunteers (2)
- Registration Team Volunteers – (6)
- Station Leaders (8)
- Station Volunteers (32)
- Scoring Team (4-6)
- Camp Masters (4-8)
- Patrol Check-In Organizers (2-4)