ALERT Cadet

2024 South Central Leadership Training Corps Camp
2024-10-21 14:30 - 2024-10-26 14:30 (America/Chicago) | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
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Eastern Region LTC Camp
2024-08-12 14:00 - 2024-08-17 14:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
The August 12-17 Eastern Region Leadership Training Corps Camp will be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire on the North side of Mt. Monadnock…
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2024 National Father/Son High Adventure Camp
2024-08-03 08:00 - 2024-08-10 17:00 | Lake City, CO, Lake City, CO, United States
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Eastern Father/Son Service Camp North
2024-05-23 16:00 - 2024-05-26 16:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
Our annual New England Father and Son Service Camp will again be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire..
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2024 South Central Father/Son Home Repair Camp
2024-05-02 17:30 - 2024-05-04 16:30 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
This is a brand new camp where fathers and sons will learn the basics of home repair…Continue Reading

Eastern Region Father/Son Service Camp South
2024-04-18 16:00 - 2024-04-21 16:00 | Strath an De Farm, 145 Stewart Run Rd, Waynesburg, PA, 15370, United States
We are holding our third annual Father/Son Service Camp at Strath an De’ Farm (Scottish Gaelic for “God’s Valley”) (strathande.com) in Waynesburg, PA…
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2024 South Central Father/Son Service Camp
2024-03-14 17:30 - 2024-03-17 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
Big Sandy, TX is the location for our South Central Region Father/Son Service Camp.
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South Central LTC Camp
2023-10-23 14:30 - 2023-10-28 14:30 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
The October 23-28 South Central Region LTC Camp will be held at the International ALERT Academy campus in Big Sandy, TX (alertacademy.com) with cadre reporting on Saturday, October 21st. Fathers and LTCs are expected to be set up and settled in by 1400 hours on Monday. Camp ends Saturday around noon.
Each activity is designed to develop the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical parts of your being as you acquire or advance skills in situational awareness, Personal Emergency Preparedness, including the assembly of a disaster supplies kit, and wilderness survival, consisting of fire building and starting, open-fire cooking, shelter building, water collection and purification, weather forecasting, primitive navigation, distress signaling, food gathering, and natural medicine.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, communicate with and lead a team, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences. You will take home a greater appreciation that team success depends on the success of each member.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched; then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
Successful completion of the camp earns both the LTC Camp Participation Award and the new Emergency Survival Training Award. As with other ALERT Cadet camps, dads must participate with their sons. Note that this is tent camping with showers and all mealtime food being supplied. The packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform items. To seek a scholarship contact Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com prior to registration.

Eastern LTC Camp
2023-08-21 14:00 - 2023-08-26 14:00 | Strath an De Farm, 145 Stewart Run Rd, Waynesburg, PA, 15370, United States
The August 21-26 Eastern Region LTC Camp will be held at Strath an De’ Farm (Scottish Gaelic for “God’s Valley”) (strathande.com) belonging to Jim and Barbara Butler in Waynesburg, PA, with cadre reporting on Saturday the 19th. Fathers and LTCs are expected to be set up and settled in by 1400 hours on Monday. Camp ends with lunch on Saturday.
Each activity is designed to develop the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical parts of your being as you acquire or advance skills in situational awareness, Personal Emergency Preparedness, including the assembly of a disaster supplies kit, and wilderness survival, consisting of fire building and starting, open-fire cooking, shelter building, water collection and purification, weather forecasting, primitive navigation, distress signaling, food gathering, and natural medicine.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, communicate with and lead a team, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences. You will take home a greater appreciation that team success depends on the success of each member.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched; then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
Successful completion of the camp earns both the LTC Camp Participation Award and the new Emergency Survival Training Award. As with other ALERT Cadet camps, dads must participate with their sons. Note that this is tent camping with showers and all mealtime food being supplied. The packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform items. To seek a scholarship contact Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com prior to registration.

Eastern Region Father/Son Service Camp - North - New Hampshire
2023-05-25 16:00 - 2023-05-28 12:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
Our annual New England Father and Son Service Camp will again be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire, on the north side of Mt. Monadnock. As usual, it will be held on the three days preceding Memorial Day, which are May 25-28. Camp starts with settling-in at 1600 hours, with Color Guard practice at 1700 hours, on Thursday, and ends with lunch on Sunday.
The focus of our fellowship will be understanding more of our Father’s design for us as men and advancing the fulfillment of our identity in Jesus. Our service project will likely be harvesting wood for heat: bucking, splitting, hauling, and stacking.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT and/or Jodie run, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, skill development, and possibly hiking Mt. Monadnock (with the option of alternative activities). We will likely be staying in rooms with private showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
LTC’s to Sergeants will have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the fathers and sons throughout each day.
For scholarship contact Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

Eastern Region Father/Son Service Camp - South - Pennsylvania
2023-04-20 16:00 - 2023-04-23 17:00 | Strath an De Farm, 145 Stewart Run Rd, Waynesburg, PA, 15370, United States
We are holding our second annual Father and Son Service Camp at Strath an De’ Farm (Scottish Gaelic for “God’s Valley”) (strathande.com) belonging to Jim and Barbara Butler in Waynesburg, PA, April 20-23. Camp starts with settling in at 1600 hours, with Color Guard practice at 1700 hours, on Thursday, and ends with lunch on Sunday. The focus of our fellowship will be understanding more of our Father’s design for us as men and advancing the fulfillment of our identity in Jesus.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT and/or Jodie run, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, and skill development, possibly blacksmithing. We will possibly be tenting with hot showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
LTC’s to Sergeants will have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the fathers and sons throughout each day.
For scholarship contact Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

South Central Father/Son Service Camp
2023-03-09 17:30 - 2023-03-12 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, March 9-12, 2023
 Camp commences Thursday at 17:30 and adjourns Sundayat 12:00. Arrival time between 10:00 – 16:00 Thursday, Mar 9 th toset up camp. Color Guard Training 14:30 – 15:30 Primitive campground setting for tents or pop-up campers.o Pine Lodge cabins with beds are available for $25 per night (sleeps 3). Tents canbe set up alongside the cabins for sons if more than 3 per family.Call for reservation: 903-636-9201.
 Friday morning and afternoon will be 6 hours of ServiceProjects – hours spent on the service project can be usedtowards a Personal Service or Unit Service Award. Travelto and from a service camp may be counted towards the25 man-hours of service provided at least 50% of the hoursaccumulated are actual work, not travel. Saturday morning will be organized activities. Saturday afternoon will be father-son time with numerous activities available. Camp registration cost for Father-Son Service Camp:$55 for father and 1 son plus $20 for each additional son ($35 is non-refundable). Those attending camp earn a Father-Son Camp award. Come as a unit or as individual families (Third Delta). Bring your own food, tents and sleeping gear(Pine Lodge cabins have sheets and towels). Evening session of spiritual encouragement forfathers and sons before lights out. Camp CO will be Capt. Dan Schlichter

2022 South Central Father/Son Camp II
2022-11-03 12:00 - 2022-11-06 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3-6, 2022

Primitive campground setting for tents or pop-up campers at Big Sandy Headquarters
Arrival time between 10 AM – 4 PM Thursday, November 3 to set up camp
Camp adjourns Sunday before noon
Service Project on campus Friday morning, Friday afternoon and Sat morning – hours spent on the service project can be used towards a Personal Service or Unit Service Award
Saturday afternoon open for father and son time with numerous activities available.
Camp registration cost for Father/Son Service Camp – $35 per family unit
Those attending camp earn a Father/Son Camp Award
Come as a unit or as individual families
Bring your own food, tents and sleeping gear

For those who find it difficult to sleep primitively, Pine Lodge cabins with beds are available for $25 per night (sleeps 3). Tents can be set up alongside the cabins for sons if more than 3 per family. Call for reservation: 903-636-9201

Evening session of spiritual encouragement for fathers and sons before lights out
Camp CO will be CMaj. Michael Smith

2022 South Central LTC Camp
2022-09-26 13:00 - 2022-10-01 13:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
The September 26th through October 1st South Central Region LTC Camp will be held at the International ALERT Academy campus in Big Sandy, TX (alertacademy.com) with cadre reporting on Sunday September 25th. Camp starts at 1400 hours on Monday and ends with lunch on Saturday.
Each activity is designed to develop the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical parts of your being as you acquire or advance skills in Personal Emergency Preparedness and outdoor survival consisting of survival kit contents, shelter building, fire starting, cooking-fire building, open-fire cooking, distress signaling, water collection and purification, food gathering, and weather forecasting. Note that for part of the week you will bunk indoor and part of the week will require bivouacking. You will take home a greater appreciation that team success depends on the success of each member.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, communicate with and lead a team, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched; then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
Successful completion of the camp earns both the LTC Camp Participation Award and the new Emergency Survival Training Award. As with other ALERT Cadet camps, dads must participate with their sons. The fee is $450 (including a $35 non-refundable registration fee) for dad, plus $95.00 for each son. Note that showers and all mealtime food will be supplied and the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform items. To seek a scholarship contact CLt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com prior to registration. Register before Dec 31, 2021 and receive a 10% discount!

2022 Eastern LTC Camp
2022-09-05 13:00 - 2022-09-10 13:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
The September 5-10 Eastern Region LTC Camp will be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire, on the north side of Mt. Monadnock, with cadre reporting on Sunday the 4th. Camp starts at 1400 hours on Monday and ends with lunch on Saturday.
Each activity is designed to develop the spiritual, mental, emotional, and physical parts of your being as you acquire or advance skills in Personal Emergency Preparedness and outdoor survival consisting of survival kit contents, shelter building, fire starting, cooking-fire building, open-fire cooking, distress signaling, water collection and purification, food gathering, and weather forecasting. Note that for part of the week you will bunk indoor and part of the week will require bivouacking. You will take home a greater appreciation that team success depends on the success of each member.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, communicate with and lead a team, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched; then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
Successful completion of the camp earns both the LTC Camp Participation Award and the new Emergency Survival Training Award. As with other ALERT Cadet camps, dads must participate with their sons. The fee is $450 (including a $35 non-refundable registration fee) for dad, plus $95.00 for each son. Note that showers and all mealtime food will be supplied and the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform items. To seek a scholarship contact CLt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com prior to registration. Register before Dec 31, 2021 and receive a 10% discount!

2022 Eastern Father/Son Service Camp Northern Area-New Hampshire
2022-05-26 18:30 - 2022-05-29 13:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
Our annual New England Father and Son Service Camp will again be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire, on the north side of Mt. Monadnock. As usual, it will be held on the three days preceding Memorial Day, which are May 26-29. Camp starts with supper at 1830 hours on Thursday and ends with lunch on Sunday.
Our service project will likely be harvesting wood for heat: bucking, splitting, hauling, and stacking. The focus of our fellowship will continue to be putting relationships first and properly valuing the women whom God has placed in our lives.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT, Jodie runs, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, skill development, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, and hiking Mt. Monadnock (with the option of alternative activities).
LTC’s to Sergeants will have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the fathers and sons throughout each day.
We will be staying in rooms with private showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
The fee for this camp is $105 for dad plus $55 for each son, however, no one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship contact CLt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

2022 Eastern Father/Son Service Camp Southern Area - Pennsylvania
2022-04-21 18:30 - 2022-04-24 18:30 | Strath an De Farm, 145 Stewart Run Rd, Waynesburg, PA, 15370, United States
We are launching a Father and Son Service Camp at Strath an De’ Farm (Scottish Gaelic for “God’s Valley”) (strathande.com) belonging to Jim and Barbara Butler in Waynesburg, PA, April 21-24. Camp starts with supper at 1830 hours on Thursday and ends with lunch on Sunday.
Our desire is to make this an annual event and are therefore looking for a strong attendance. The focus of our fellowship will be putting relationships first and properly valuing the women whom God has placed in our lives.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT, Jodie runs, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, skill development, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, blacksmithing and a service project.
LTC’s to Sergeants will have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the fathers and sons throughout each day.
We will be tenting but with hot showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
The fee for this camp is $105 for dad plus $55 for each son, however, no one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship contact CLt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

2022 South Central Father/Son Canoe Camp
2022-03-24 08:00 - 2022-03-26 17:00 | Neches River
Join us for a 40 mile canoe trip down the Neches River, located within the Big Thicket National Wildlife Preserve in East Texas. We will be camping on sandbars along the banks of the Neches River. We will leave from Spurger, Texas, early Thursday morning and take out 40 miles down river at Evadale, Texas, Saturday afternoon. The dates of this camp are March 24-26, 2022.
This trip will be primitive camping for all three days and two nights. Everything you need (water, food, shelter, bedding, and gear) will be packed within and carried by each canoe, with no access to vehicles, stores, or conventional restrooms. There will be special instructions available on suggested food and how to pack the canoe. Cell phone coverage will be spotty to non-existent, but in the past there have been places with reception along the way to make calls, there will be a provision for emergency messages. This trip is designed with the novice canoeist in mind, with all 40 miles heading downstream, the current pushing us along. The river is wide, fairly straight (no tight turns), open (exposed to direct sun/rain), and has few obstacles.
The goal of this trip is to strengthen the bond between fathers and sons. There will be a speaker each night working toward that goal. Being on the river also facilitates this goal by removing the distractions of life. The bonding time will actually begin prior to the trip, as fathers and sons spend time at home planning for the packing of food and gear needed in their canoe.
There will be no special gear needed outside of regular camping gear. Each family will be responsible for bringing and cooking their own food with either a small stove or open camp fire.
A lack of canoeing experience should not prevent anyone from making this trip. This is not a difficult trip. The Houston unit has been making this same trip for years, with sons of all ages. One of the men guiding the trip had been down this river 80 plus times.
Texas state law requires a life vest to be worn.
At the end of the trip, each father/son who has completed his Basic Training Manual will be awarded a Father/Son Camp ribbon or star.
Option 1
Two man canoe (father and one son) $195.00 This cost includes rental for duration of trip, two paddles, two life vest, launch fee, and father/son camp ribbon/star for father and one son. A small son could sit in the middle but he will not have a seat, paddle or life vest.
Option 2
Three man canoe (father and two sons) $225.00 This cost includes rental for duration of trip, three paddles, three life vest, launch fee, and father/son camp ribbon/star for father and two sons. If a son is younger than eight it is recommend they bring their own life vest. All the outfitter has is orange type life vest.
Option 3
$30.00 if bringing your own canoe, paddles, and life jackets. Includes launch fee, ribbon/star for father and one son.
This sign up for this trip will close March 4, 2022. The outfitter requires a 10 day cancellation notice. For questions, please contact C.Capt. Dan Schlichter at: texasten@reagan.com, C 1Lt. Matt Adams at: mattadams24@verizon.net or call the ALERT Cadet office.

2022 South Central Father/Son Service Camp - Big Sandy
2022-03-10 12:00 - 2022-03-13 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
THURSDAY-SUNDAY, MARCH 10-13, 2022

Primitive campground setting for tents or pop-up campers at Big Sandy Headquarters
Arrival time between 10 AM – 4 PM Thursday, March 10 to set up camp
Camp adjourns Sunday before noon
Service Project on campus Friday morning, Friday afternoon and Sat morning – hours spent on the service project can be used towards a Personal Service or Unit Service Award
Saturday afternoon open for father and son time with numerous activities available.
Camp registration cost for Father/Son Service Camp – $35 per family unit
Those attending camp earn a Father/Son Camp Award
Come as a unit or as individual families
Bring your own food, tents and sleeping gear

For those who find it difficult to sleep primitively, Pine Lodge cabins with beds are available for $25 per night (sleeps 3). Tents can be set up alongside the cabins for sons if more than 3 per family. Call for reservation: 903-636-9201

Evening session of spiritual encouragement for fathers and sons before lights out
Camp CO will be CMaj. Michael Smith

2022 South Central Father/Son Service Camp II
2021-11-11 10:00 - 2021-11-14 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
Thursday evening of the camp features a Veteran’s Banquet honoring our local Veterans and First Responders. All camp attendees are welcome to attend the banquet for a small fee. Veterans and First Responders along with their sons receive a complimentary meal.
Running simultaneously with the camp is a mother/daughter Commit Conference. For details on the conference visit the link below.
Call the event registration office to book your cabin or reserve your meal. 903-636-9201
Camp summary
Veteran’s Banquet Sample Program
Commit Conference

2022 South Central LTC Camp
2021-09-13 14:00 - 2021-09-18 12:00 | Big Sandy, Texas, One Academy Blvd, Big Sandy, TX, 75755, United States
You will be acquiring or advancing your skills in First Aid with CPR, land search and recovery/rescue, map reading and compass, sawyer safety and use, Incident Command System, and two-way radio use, protocol, and care (which taken together satisfy all the requirements for the Crisis Response Training Award). More than ever you will appreciate that team success depends on the success of each member.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched and then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
We will be staying in cabins. There are rustic showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list (not yet posted) will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
No one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship information contact Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

2021 Eastern LTC - Waynesburg, Pennsylvania
2021-08-23 - 2021-08-28 | Strath an De Farm, 145 Stewart Run Rd, Waynesburg, PA, 15370, United States
The August 23-28, 2021, Eastern Region LTC Camp will be held at Strath an De’ Farm (Scottish Gaelic for “God’s Valley”) belonging to Jim and Barbara Butler in Waynesburg, PA, with staff reporting for briefing on Sunday the 22nd.
You will be acquiring or advancing your skills in First Aid with CPR, land search and recovery/rescue, map reading and compass, sawyer safety and use, Incident Command System, and walkie-talkie use, protocol, and care (which taken together satisfy all the requirements of the Crisis Response Training Award). More than ever you will appreciate that team success depends on the success of each member.
LTC members: You will be tested to think, communicate, and act under pressure. You will refine your ability to calmly and efficiently collect facts, discern outcomes, evaluate risk, make decisions, develop plans, re-evaluate decisions, make course corrections, clean up your mistakes, process criticism, and debrief in order to thoroughly learn from your experiences.
Dads: You are going to partner with your sons in order to observe, protect, evaluate, advise, and enjoy them. You will instruct, re-enforce progress, and learn new things about some skills and about your sons. Come prepared to see your sons challenged and stretched; and then take home refined parenting skills that will benefit all your children as you disciple them in critical thinking and other skills. You dads hold the positions of greatest influence as you collaborate directly with your sons to integrate the purpose of each devotion, teaching, training, briefing, scenario, and debriefing.
This is tent camping. There are rustic showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list (not yet posted) will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
No one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship, contact C Lt. Col. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

2021 Eastern Father/Son Service Camp
2021-05-27 18:30 - 2021-05-30 12:00 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
Our annual New England Father and Son Service Camp will again be held at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire, on the north side of Mt. Monadnock. As usual, it will be held on the three days preceding Memorial Day, which are May 27-30. Camp starts with supper at 1830 hours on Thursday and ends with lunch on Sunday.
Our service project will likely be harvesting wood for heat: bucking, splitting, hauling, and stacking. The focus of our fellowship will continue to be putting relationships first and properly valuing the women whom God has placed in our lives.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT, Jodie runs, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, skill development, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, and possibly organized games/sports. We are trying to arrange for a day of blacksmithing for us all.
LTC’s to Sergeants will have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the sons throughout each day.
We will be staying in rooms with private showers, and all mealtime food will be supplied. Note that the packing list (not yet posted) will require neither a multi-day backpack nor any special uniform or equipment purchases.
The fee for this camp is $50 per family plus $55 per person, however, no one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship information contact CLt. Col. Doug Dagarin at: dougdagarin@gmail.com or 413-575-4560 before you register for the camp.

2020 Eastern Father/Son Camp
2020-05-21 - 2020-05-24 | Fairwood Bible Institute, Dublin, NH, United States
Our annual New England Father and Son Service Camp will be held over the four days preceding Memorial Day, which are May 21-24, at Fairwood Bible Institute (fairwoodbible.org) in Dublin, New Hampshire, on the north side of Mt. Monadnock. The service project will be harvesting wood for heat: bucking, splitting, hauling, and stacking. Our corporate fellowship will focus on cherishing and honoring the women whom God has placed in our lives.
Our time together will be filled with listening to the Holy Spirit, PT, Jodie runs, prayer, formations, group devotions, father and son debriefing, skill development, team building activities, meaningful meals with testimonies, room inspections, marching drill, campfires, and hot showers in every room. Cadet leaders from LTC’s to Sergeants have a great opportunity to develop and use their leadership skills, as they are given much of the responsibility for directing the activities that occupy the sons throughout each day.
Camp starts with supper at 1830 hours on Thursday, May 21st, and ends with lunch on Sunday, May 24th. The fee for this camp is $50 per family ($35 non-refundable) plus $45 per person, however, no one has permission to stay away from this camp due to finances. For scholarship contact CMaj. Doug Dagarin at dougdagarin@gmail.com before you register for the camp.
