2025-1 Home Pass
2025-05-22 10:00 - 2025-05-27 16:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | ID
DATES AND TIMES SUBJECT TO CHANGE.
TIMES LISTED ARE IN THE PIERCE, IDAHO TIME-ZONE – PACIFIC STANDARD.
Pick-up: May 22 between 10:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m. PST
Drop-off: May 27 between 2:00 p.m. and 4:00 p.m. PST
All youth must be off-campus between 2:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 22 and 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27. There will not be any staff at the Academy during this time. Transportation to and from the Academy is solely the parent/guardians’ responsibility.
You MUST contact your youth’s Master Sergeant (see below) with your arrival times / travel plans, so we will have your Cadet ready to leave. [If planning to have your Cadet fly home, you must follow the AIRLINE information below.]
Gems – MSgt Stewart: 208-464-1465 or cstewart@idyouthchallenge.com
Axemen – MSgt Nelson: 208-464-1466 or jnelson@idyouthchallenge.com
Scouts – MSgt Rowland: 208-464-1464 or srowland@idyouthchallenge.com
Per the Parent Handbook, your Cadet will not be released for home pass with anyone other than the legal parent or guardian listed on the original application, unless you have authorized other arrangements in writing prior to arrival. (Valid I.D. Required).
If a Cadet tests positive for drugs after returning from Home Pass, he/she will be dismissed from Academy. Parent/guardian may take Cadet off campus for a confirmatory blood test at the expense of the Cadet or parent/guardian.
If a Cadet returns from Home Pass and Medical Staff deems Cadet contagious, parent/guardian will be responsible to transport Cadet to hospital to have Cadet checked by a Doctor and bring medical clearance back to our Medical Staff.
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Though not recommended, below is flight information. Instead of your child sitting on a plane and in airports for hours, they could be having long, meaningful, undistracted conversations with you during the trip home and back to the Academy. Even carpooling with other parents would encourage conversation, and we want the youth to have the opportunity to share what they are learning, with people who care about them.
AIRLINE INFO:
Transportation to and from the Academy is the solely the parents’ responsibility, as noted in the Parent Handbook. However, IDYCA will absorb the expense to assist with transportation to the Lewiston Airport (LWS) or Pullman Airport (PUW) at the times that Commandant Binder lists below.
To avoid unnecessary flight changing expense, you MUST contact the flight’s Master Sergeant (listed above) BEFORE purchasing an airplane ticket. We will NOT be able to accommodate transportation for any flights outside of the schedules or airports listed below.
These are the flights authorized by Commandant, between 5/22/2025 and 5/27/2025:

Flying to Boise would be the 1:43 flight out of Pullman. The return would be leaving Boise at 10:05am, 1hr 20min layover in Seattle, getting into Pullman at 1:03 pm
Flying to Salt Lake, it is the same 1:43 flight out of Pullman, 40 min transition in Seattle, and then arrives in Salt Lake at 6:39pm. The return is leaving Salt Lake at 6:48am, 3hr 46min layover in Seattle, getting to Pullman at 1:03pm
Flying to Boise from Lewiston, flight departs at 1200 on the 22nd, and returns at 1120 on the 27th.

NOTE: The Academy will only make one trip to the airport, so parents MUST understand that their youth will be unsupervised in a very small airport for a few hours prior to Cadre arriving for the approved window of flights.
