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Land Forces Western Area Training Centre

In 1997, Camp Wainwright and the PPCLI Battle School were reorganized into the Western Area Training Centre, commonly refered to as WATC. This amalgamation was designed to establish the Battle School’s training staff and the Camp’s support staff under a single chain of command in order to more efficiently run the Camp.

Military courses and Canadian and Foreign units continue to conduct combat field training year round, taking advantage of Camp Wainwright’s 620 square-kilometre training area and extensive live-fire practice failities.

Land Forces Western Area Training Centre (LFWATC) conducts and supports a variety of existing training requirements of individuals and field units aqnd indeed will continue to conduct this formal recruit and advanced level training to students from across Western Canada, and support other training activities by CF and foreign military units.