Warrior Adventure Quest
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, ropes courses, skiing, zip lines, kayaking, 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.”
Additional Information
The delivery of WAQ programs is authorized for units in any phase of the SRM (Sustainment Readiness Model) to include Pre-Deployment, Re-Deployment, or if the unit hasn’t deployed in two years.There is no cost to the unit to participate and benefits of participation include reintegration, increased moral, heightened resiliency, and an incredible team building atmosphere.
Fort Riley Programs: Paintball, Skeet and Trap, Zip Lining, Canoeing/Kayaking, Indoor/Outdoor Rock Climbing, Bubble Soccer, ATV course, Stand- Up Paddle Boarding, Biking, Foot Golf, Disc Golf, High Ropes Course,Team Challenge Course, Wildwood Outdoor Adventure Zipline, Junction City Athletic Training Facility, Locked Manhattan (Escape Room), Snow Creek Ski/Snowboard (seasonal), iFly (Kansas City), IBEX (Climbing Gym in Kansas City)
2018 L-LADD Training Dates:
20 DECEMBER
09 JANUARY
23 JANUARY
06 FEBRUARY
20 FEBRUARY
06 MARCH
20 MARCH
03 APRIL
17 APRIL
The WAQ Soldier & L-LAAD Trainings are from 1300-1500 at 1806 Buffalo Soldier Drive (Camp Funston) in the second floor classroom. If there is a conflict with the above training dates in your Units Pre-Deployment or Re-Deployment Schedule, please contact the WAQ Programmer at 785-239-2364 or 785-239-2363 to arrange another time.
