Wing and Squadron Activities

West Side Training Academy

The Washington Training Academy (WTA) is one of the Wing training academies offering Emergency Services, Aircrew, Communication, Professional Development Training, Aerospace Education and Cadet development as an effective program to ensure positive growth. Training opportunities are nearly endless with a cooperative and friendly staff that will push you to your limits to allow you to learn new material and concepts.

Based at Camp Murray, Fort Lewis, WTA has meetings every 3rd weekend of the month during the fall, winter and spring. To get the current training offerings and to register click on WTA link below.

WTA Training Home

Western Cadet Academy (WCA)

WCA is held in Arlington, Washington and is designed to help teach cadets the basics. It is equivalent to a small summer encampment. It has classes that are for Cadet Basics, Airmen, NCOs, and commissioned officers. This is a good place to learn all the required skills to help in the promotion process.

WCA Training Home

Basic Marksmanship Encampment

Marksmanship encampment is held twice a year and is an event for cadets to earn NRA qualifications. The cadets are taught firearm safety and competition shooting positions. Then they spend two days shooting small bore .22 caliber rifles to earn the NRA qualifications of Pro Marksman thru Distinguished Expert. The last encampment had 44 cadets participating and firing over 7,000 rounds in two days. This is one of only a few marksmanship encampments available to cadets and we are proud to have it here in Lewis County. Encampment news is posted to the Washington Wing mailing list.

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Model Rocketry

Every year our squadron does a rocketry class as part of our Aerospace education commitment. This allows the cadets to learn about current rocket technology and what the future holds. In addition each cadet will be instructed on building their own model rocket and then allowed to launch it. During the launches the Cadet are also taught how to triangulate the altitude that their rocket achieved. This is a great environment to learn rocketry and then get to apply the skills.