Student Registration is NOW CLOSED

 

26 - 28 June 2025 Pre-Encampment for Senior Staff & Cadre 

29 June to 6 July 2025 Basic Encampment and ATS

 

Please direct any questions you have to cf-admin@wawg.cap.gov

Please be aware that our kitchens are staffed by volunteers and may not be able to
accommodate all dietary restrictions. If you have severe food allergies or dietary needs,
attendance may not be advisable due to the risk of cross-contamination.

The following menu options will be available: general diet, vegetarian, and gluten-free.
Additionally, dairy-free main courses will be offered when a dairy-rich item is served (e.g., pasta
with marinara sauce will be available when macaroni and cheese is served). However, please
note that some foods may contain trace amounts of dairy.

Members with additional dietary restrictions may bring shelf-stable protein sources (please label
with your full name) to be turned in to the DFAC staff and provided during meal times. This food
should not be shared with others. Additionally, members are welcome to supplement their meals
with our self-serve items

Breakfast:

● Cereal choices and milk (including gluten-free cereal and oat milk)
● Canned fruit
● Cottage cheese
● Orange juice & apple juice
● Cereal bars (including gluten-free options)
● String cheese
● Hard-boiled eggs
● Yogurt (including coconut milk versions)

Lunch & Dinner:

● Salad bar (including non-meat protein options such as quinoa, hummus, and beans)
● Jello
● String cheese
● Hard-boiled eggs
● Yogurt (including coconut milk versions)
● Rolls and butter (including gluten-free)

Cadets expend a tremendous amount of energy during training. If you plan to bring your own
food to supplement the provided menu, please ensure you bring enough to account for the
additional calories needed to sustain your energy levels.

 

The following entrée menu items may be served (subject to change):

Breakfast:

● Yogurt parfaits
● Biscuits & gravy & pork sausage
● Scrambled eggs & coffee cake
● Waffles & sausage
● French toast & sausage

Lunch:

● Cold cut sandwiches, chips
● Sloppy Joes & tater wedges
● Chicken burgers & tater wedges
● Hamburgers, toppings, chips & jello
● Chili & cornbread

Dinner:

● Pizza
● Teriyaki chicken &rice, Asian vegetables
● All-beef hot dogs, potato salad, baked beans
● Lasagna, green beans, breadsticks
● Tater tot casserole, corn
● Salisbury steak & mashed potatoes, corn
● Macaroni & cheese, California veggies
● Alfredo pasta and green beans

Basic Encampment

The Basic Student Encampment is one of the most worthwhile activities available to cadets.  You’ll be challenged by a carefully designed, age-appropriate, military-style training environment. This immersion into the military-style training will challenge cadets to develop self-discipline and teamwork while learning leadership skills, military bearing, and broadening their understanding of aerospace and the Cadet Program. Surveys show that the opportunity to thrive in a strict, Air Force-like setting is among the top reasons young people become cadets. Successful completion of an encampment is required for the Billy Mitchell Award and opens up many new and exciting opportunities for CAP cadets, such as National Cadet Special Activities, and the ability to return to encampment as cadet cadre.  Students must have completed the Curry Award prior to the start of Encampment.

Please note: due to the increased need of encampment graduation credit, Cascade Falcon will not be accepting basic encampment student applications from prior encampment graduates. If you have previously graduated from an encampment and would like to attend Cascade Falcon as a student (not cadre), we strongly encourage you to register for the Advanced Training Squadron as a student.

Advanced Training Squadron (ATS)

The Advanced Training Squadron (ATS) - “Open to Cadett Staff Sergeant (C/SSgt) through Cadet Chief Master Sergeant (C/CMSgt)  - is designed for cadets with a prior encampment attendance seeking additional training in the encampment environment. It is a week of leadership immersion, where the students will rotate between leadership positions, practicing hands-on leadership skills, including providing supervision, enforcing standards, teaching, mentoring, and coaching activities, leading drill and ceremonies, and public speaking. Students are encouraged to try new skills, get feedback, and learn from the experience.  The curriculum is based on CAP’s Cadet Staff Handbook and Learn to Lead. ATS students comply with military standards in the Air Force tradition and are challenged by an environment of appropriate military intensity.

The goal is for these students after competing ATS to now have new knowledge, skills, and abilities they can use as cadre and staff, not only at future encampments or wing level activities, but in their home units as well. ATS students may also take part in special opportunities not offered to basic cadet students.

To attend ATS, cadets must have completed a prior encampment and be in the grade of C/SSgt to C/CMSgt. Cadets at the rank of Cadet Senior Airman (C/SrA) may register, but must have been promoted to C/SSgt by the time Encampment starts.

Packing List

Packing list for Basic students, ATS students, and Cadre, as well as some important student information can be found on our Student Information page 

Fee Schedule:

• Basic and Advanced Training Squadron Students $350

• Cadet Cadre $200

• Senior Member Staff $100

REFUND POLICY:

Over 30 days’ notice         Full Refund 

20-30 days’ notice             75 percent refund 

10-20 days’ notice             50 percent refund 

1-10 days’ notice               25 percent refund 

If the withdrawal is for a family emergency (i.e.: sickness, death in the family) and it is in the 30-day window, the refund will be 75 percent.

Three Step Process: 

This is needed for Students, Cadre, and Senior Members attending.

First Step (optional if you require a scholarship):

• Ask your local squadron if there are any scholarships available from the squadron.

• Check out the National CAP Encampment scholarship to pay for first time student encampment fees: 1 March - 30 April https://www.capnhq.gov/CAP.Events.Web/Modules/CEAP.aspx

• Being awarded a CEAP scholarship is completely separate from applying and being accepted to Cascade Falcon.   The CEAP application process web page will explain Priorities 1, 2 and 3 requests.

• If you are awarded a national CEAP scholarship you can use it to pay for your Cascade Falcon registration fees. 

• Cadets that qualify for CEAP priority request 1, will be able to register for Cascade Falcon.  If CEAP is not awarded by June 1, you will be given the opportunity to pay or withdraw from Encampment.

• CEAP priority requests 2 & 3 will likely not be awarded by National HQ until after registration for Cascade Falcon closes.  You will be required to pay the $350.00 student fee at time of registration in order to secure a position in the encampment.  Available student slots will go to students that complete the registration and payment, in some manner, for the available positions only.  If CEAP scholarship is awarded, then your Encampment fee will be refunded.

Second Step: 

• All of the required forms are in this one package below that is set up for digital signatures.  Only one spot will be made available to upload this single package during registration on RegFox.

• Fill out the Application Package below using Adobe Acrobat - not a web browser.  If you need a free copy of Adobe Acrobat, you can download it here https://get.adobe.com/reader/ 

• If you need a step-by-step guide for digitally signing the application package, we have provided it here for you:  Step-by-Step Digital Signatures 

• Incomplete packages will be rejected, and you will not move forward in the registration process.

• Download and save this application package:   2025 Cascade Falcon Application   ONLY THIS PACKAGE OF FORMS WILL BE ACCEPTED.

• Medical information in eServices is required for registration. After logging in to eServices, find the “Click here to go to CAP Health” link on the page. Click on it and fill out your medical information.      

• After you have filled out and saved the Application package, and completed the CAP Health form, go to the next step.

Third Step: 

• Registration will open 1 APRIL 2025 and will close on 10 MAY 2025 -   If after this date, please direct any questions you have to cf-admin@wawg.cap.gov   

Slotting will occur a few days after May 10, and payment will be due at that time.