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 Benning
Activities
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 / Central Region
All activities 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 Bliss
Activities
Challenge Course / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Rock Climbing
Fort Carson
Activities
Back - Cross Country Skiing / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Rock-Ice Climbing / Ropes Course / Skiing-Snowboarding / Zip-lining
Fort Hood
Actvities
Kayaking / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Zero Gravity
Fort Huachuca
Activities
ATV / Colossal Caves / Horseback Riding / Paintball
Fort Leonard Wood
Activities
Kayaking / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Trap Shooting
Fort Leavenworth
Activities
Adventure Race / Mountain Biking / Paintball / Rope Repelling
Fort Polk
Activities
Archery / Canoeing / Go-Karts / Kayaking / Paintball / Rockwall / Skeet Shooting / Zip-lining
Fort Riley
Activities
ATV / Biking / Canoe / Indoor Range / Kayaking / Paintball / Rock Wall Climbing / Ropes Course / Skeet & Trap / Skiing - Snowboarding
Fort Sill
Activities
Go-Kart Racing / Indoor Rock Climbing / Paintball / Sky Diving
Joint Base Lewis/McChord
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White Sands Missle Range
Activities
TBD
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
WAQ - POC's and Activities / Pacific 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 Wainwright
Activities
Schofield Barracks (Hawaii)
Activities
Joint Base Elmensdorf/Richardson
Activities
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