>>920617Cian?
If not, something similar happened to my troop. We had a weird, but competent graybeard for a scoutmaster who made sure we had monthly campouts while he was there, pushed us to keep advancing in the troop, etc. His assistant was a bear of a man who led our more intense, multiday backpacking trips. Those really forced us to bond as a troop, and to learn to survive in the outdoors. They had the added benefit of keeping the soccer moms at bay.
This continued until I had either my star or life, when it was decided that we needed a new scoutmaster. Luckily for us, there was a cubmaster whose son was getting his scout award at the time, so it was decided that he would take over after a stint as ASM. Everything went smoothly during the transition, the troop was the largest and most active it ever was. But once he got into power, it didn't take long before we stopped having monthly campouts. Without those, we lost our sense of purpose, and attendance started to drop. We went from three patrols to two, then stopped having an ASPL, then stopped having APLs. I tried planning campouts with the other boys, but he threatened to kick us out of the troop if we went. He tried to have us march in uniform in a pride parade about the same time. Once his aspie son collected his free eagle (I think he was 13 at the time), our scoutmaster revealed that he was starting a troop sponsored by the local Pride Center. He would be scoutmaster of both, and the two troops would share equipment. Luckily the council shut that down, but the damage was done, and a year and several acrimonious emails later, my troop ceased to exist.
As an epilogue, I got a surprise in the mail when I was 19: an Eagle Scout Mentor pin from a guy who I thought had dropped out of scouts as our troop fell apart. Turns out he just switched to a more functional troop, which he found out about when we attended a jamboree together. Made the years of constant battles with our scoutmaster worth it.