CAMP ILLUMINATIONCADET FIELD TRAINING 2017

• General information

• Security notes

• Timeline

• Attire

• Parking directions

• Contact information****ALL PARKING will be at West Point***

***There is NO PARKING at Camp Buckner***

***All visitors must first go to the VCC and then use Thayer Gate***’

***Please notify Cadet Danielle Jaksha at Danielle.Jaksha@USMA.edu or (858) 354-4497 if you are planning on attending***

Contents

• Only invited dates may attend Camp Illumination

• Camp Illumination occurs at Camp Buckner, but all parking is at West Point near the Parade Field

• There will be busses from Cullum Hall to Camp Buckner (see timeline for more information)

• All visitors must check in at the Visitors Control Center before 1745 to access West Point

• All visitors must have a valid state-issued ID card or a valid passport to access West Point

• Changing rooms are available in Cullum Hall starting at 1730. Busses will depart at 1900.

• Busses back to West Point depart at 2320.

General Information

• All visitors must go through the Visitors Control Center and the vehicle security screening at West Point to board the busses to Camp Buckner

• The Visitors Control Center closes at 1800. Be there by 1745.

• State-issued IDs or valid passports are required

• Large bags must be left in automobiles before boarding the bus

• Small bags (purses or wallets) are permitted, but will be searched before boarding the bus

Security Notes

Time Description Location Attire

1730 Changing rooms open Cullum Hall (USMA) Any

1800 Visitors Control Center closes Visitors Control Center Any

1830 Bus begins loading Cullum Hall (USMA) Semi-formal

1900 Bus departs to Camp Buckner Cullum Hall (USMA) Semi-formal

1930 Social hour begins Camp Buckner Semi-formal

2000 Hop begins Barth Hall Semi-formal

2200 Hop ends Barth Hall Semi-formal

2215 Fireworks begin Camp Buckner Semi-formal

2310 Fireworks end Camp Buckner Semi-formal

2315 Bus loads Buckner Parking Lot Semi-formal

2320 Bus departs Buckner Parking Lot Semi-formal

2330 Full accountability formation for cadets Company Areas India Whites

2340 Bus arrives back at West Point Cullum Hall (USMA) Semi-formal

0000 Changing rooms close Cullum Hall (USMA) Any

Timeline

• First, go to the Visitors Control Center.

• Next, proceed to the Clinton Field & Doubleday Field Parking Lots.

• Changing/bus staging will be in Cullum Hall.

• All bags (except purses and wallets) will be left in vehicles at West Point.

Parking Directions

Go to the Visitors Control Center to check in before Thayer Gate:

2107 New South Post Road, Highland Falls, NY 10928

Visitors Control Center

The first of two gates at Thayer Road. The first inspects your ID, the second inspects your ID and vehicle:

1 Thayer Road, West Point, NY 10996.

Thayer Gate

• Stay on Thayer Road until it turns into Cullum Road, which you will continue straight onunderneath Mahan Hall.

• Thayer Road will also travel underneath a stone overhead walkway.

• After the walkway, Cullum Hall is the first light-colored building on your right.

Drive Down Thayer Road

• Search “Cullum Hall, West Point, NY”

Cullum Hall

Cullum Hall

• Park in the first parking lot on your LEFT after the baseball field.

• Then return to Cullum Hall to change & load buses. Use the side door of Cullum Hall. After changing, bags and personal items will be left inside your personal vehicle.

• After you return to USMA, you may get your bags from your vehicle to change out of your semi-formal attire.

Parking Lots

Cullum Hall

• The Friday night Camp Illumination is a semi- formal event.

• Cadets will wear India Whites with Chapel Belt

• The civilian equivalent for men is a summer weight business suit or sport jacket, collared button down shirt with tie.

• Women, due to the warm weather, may wear a knee-length semi-formal dress, tea-length dress, or floor-length dress or gown. Flats and sandals are acceptable as you may be walking on a sandy beach. You will be dancing if you so choose.

• The following images are intended to offer guidelines . . .

Attire

Appropriate floor-lengthand tea-length dresses and gowns

Appropriate knee-length dresses

Appropriate strapless dresses

QUESTIONS ON ATTIRE?

Please contact:

Cynthia Hunter, Cadet Hostess938-4681

cynthia.hunter@usma.edu

Kathy Keirsey, Assistant Cadet Hostess938-3104

kathleen.keirsey@usma.edu

www.usma.edu/uscc/dca/hostess/hostess.htm

If you have any questions or concerns about Camp Illumination, please feel free to contact either of the below cadets:

Danielle Jaksha

Danielle.Jaksha@usma.edu

(858) 354-4497

Alex Werden

Alexander.Werden@usma.edu

(919) 360-2586

Contact Information