Warrior Adventure Quest (WAQ) is an Army RESET training tool designed to introduce Soldiers to activities that serve as alternatives to aberrant behaviors often associated with accidents involving recently re-deployed Soldiers. This tool presents coping outlets to help Soldiers realize their own new level of normal after deployment and "move on" with their lives.

WAQ combines existing MWR Outdoor Recreation high adventure activities (e.g. rock climbing, mountain biking, paintball, scuba, ropes courses, skiing, zip lines, white water rafting, and others) with a leader-led after action debriefing (L-LAAD) tool developed by Army Medical Department (AMEDD) center and school. 

The WAQ program has been developed into five phases.
 
Phase I, Leader Training, is for all SSG and above participants and teaches them how to facilitate a leader-led after action debrief 
(L-LAAD) in response to a significant event in an operational environment.

Phase II, teaches these unit leaders how to utilize the same L-LAAD technique when facilitation surrounds an outdoor adventure activity.

Phase III, Soldier Training, presents to all program Soldier participants concepts like personal readiness and resilience and Combat Operational Stress Control, and how they relate to the Warrior Adventure Quest program. 

Phase IV, is the outdoor adventure activity (e.g., paddling, riding, climbing, etc.) where team building is combined with challenging activity skills.

Phase V, is the actual facilitation of the L-LAAD by the unit leaders with their unit members to realize connections between the activity they have just experienced and the challenges they may be experiencing in their daily lives.

 

  

WAQ POC's and Activities by Region

For more information on program and activity locations contact your local Army Outdoor Recreation facility in the list below.

 

 

WAQ - POC's and Activities / Atlantic Region

All activities are provided are based on availability, season pending, and are generally chosen by the Command. For more information reference the actual program, your eligibility, and activity availability contact your local Warrior Adventure Quest representatives at the phone number provided. 

Fort Belvoir
Activities

Fort Bragg
Activities

Fort Campbell
Activities

Fort Drum
Activities

Fort Eustis
Activities

Hang Gliding / Lazer Tag / Paintball / Rock Wall Climbing / White Water Rafting / Zip-lining
 

Fort Gordon
Activities 

Fort Knox

Activities

Canoeing / Mountain Biking / Indoor-Outdoor Rock Climbing / Kayaking / Paintball / Skiing-Snowboarding / Trap & Skeet / Wakeboarding-Waterskiing / White Water Rafting / Zip-lining

Fort Lee
Activities

Fort Rucker
Activities

Fort Stewart
Activities

---

 

WAQ - POC's and Activities / Europe Region

 

All activities are provided are based on availability, season pending, and are generally chosen by the Command. For more information reference the actual program, your eligibility, and activity availability contact your local Warrior Adventure Quest representatives at the phone number provided. 

All USAG Numbers are DSN.

USAG Ansbach
Activities

USAG Baumholder
Activities

USAG Bavaria - Grafenwoehr
Activities 
Klettersteig, paintball, high ropes, trap and skeet, wakeboarding, ski 
touring, and many more.

 

USAG Hohenfels
Activities

USAG Kaiserslautern
Activities

USAG Stuttgart

Activities
Mountain Biking / Paragliding / Ropes Course / Scuba Diving / Skiing-Snowboarding / White Water Rafting

 

Vicenza
Activities

USAG Wiesbaden
Activities
Battle Ball / Bouldering / Canoeing / Climbing /  Hiking / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Rappelling / Skiing / Snowboarding /  Stand Up Paddleboarding and Rock Wall Climbing

 

For all Warrior Adventure Quest Trainers and Leaders, please visit our new AKO Knowledge Center for training resources.

Also Visit 
MWR Outdoor Recreation 
ODR / WAQ Facebook Page 
WAQ YouTube Channel

Contact Us
Email: WAQ Headquarters