For over fifteen years, I served as a den leader, Cubmaster and committee chair, as well as on the training committee for our district. In that time, I worked with dozens of other Scouters and well over a hundred Scouts (not to mention more Scouting professionals than I can recall) in supporting the Scouting program in our pack and troop.
When my sons aged out of Scouting and went off to college, I decided to step back from the troop committee chair responsibility and allow someone else to have the experience of one of the best jobs in Scouting (thanks, Bill!). So it was a natural step to take my experience and apply it in another way – as a unit commissioner.