General Information

The 2025 Illinois Wing Summer Encampment will occur tentatively from Saturday, 12 July 2024, through Saturday, 19 July 2024, at Marseilles Training Center (MTC) near Marseilles, IL. MTC is an Army National Guard facility. If you have not attended an Encampment previously, you should plan to attend Encampment this summer! Completing a Civil Air Patrol Encampment is a prerequisite to earning the CAP General Billy Mitchell Award. In addition to gaining useful leadership experience and in-depth knowledge of the United States Air Force and Civil Air Patrol, you will meet cadets from Illinois Wing and other Wings and share in a week of learning, sports, and social activities. 

Tentatively Great Lakes Region's STEM Academy and Illinois' Public Affairs School will run simultaneously. You will register separately for either of those via the Registration Zone.

Registration and payment will be accepted through EServices via the new “Registration Zone” application. Please note that this system is still under development, and some functions will be added as we get closer to July.  You will first notice that payment will not be available during our application launch. Pending credit card transaction fees and a finalization of our budget, we anticipate the cost to attend to be $200.00 per cadet. Please be patient with us as we transition to this new system.