10/01/2026
🇺🇸 FY26: A YEAR OF TRAINING, PARTNERSHIP, PREVENTION AND IMPACT
As Fiscal Year 2026 comes to a close today, the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy RCTA is proud to reflect on a year filled with growth, service, partnerships, and impact across Mississippi and throughout the nation.
RCTA continued its mission of providing high-quality, tuition-free counterdrug training to law enforcement professionals. Our instructors traveled across the country while also welcoming students to NAS Meridian and Camp Shelby, delivering courses in Tactical Emergency Casualty Care, Tactical Arrest and Control Procedures, Advanced Interview and Interrogation, Peer Support, Social Media for Drug Enforcement, Fentanyl and Opioid Overdose Death Investigations, Contraband Parcel Interdiction and Controlled Deliveries, Officer Survival Tactics, Mexican Cartels and Their Violence, Executing Search Warrants, Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs, and other critical areas affecting today's law enforcement professionals.
Our reach extended beyond the classroom.
RCTA supported law enforcement and narcotics conferences across the country, strengthened relationships with partner agencies and organizations, and participated in events including Magnolia Crucible, bringing together professionals focused on emerging threats, unmanned aircraft systems, and counter UAS capabilities.
We hosted the 2nd Annual SHIELD Summit, creating an opportunity to focus on mental wellness, resiliency, spiritual health, leadership, and the long term well being of those who serve.
Throughout the year, our team continued building relationships with law enforcement agencies, community organizations, prevention professionals, narcotics associations, and Counterdrug partners. Those partnerships allow us to take training and resources where they are needed and strengthen the collective effort to protect our communities.
FY26 was also a year of recognizing excellence within our team. We recognized our instructors and staff for their dedication, professionalism, and contributions to the Regional Counterdrug Training Academy and the Mississippi National Guard Counterdrug Program.
We closed the fiscal year with the Mississippi National Guard Counterdrug Program Annual Training Meeting in Nashville, Tennessee, to review what we accomplished, recognize our people, and prepare for the mission ahead.
Every class taught, every mile traveled, every officer trained, every community reached, and every partnership strengthened represents another step forward in our mission.
To our instructors, staff, students, law enforcement agencies, community coalitions, prevention partners, and everyone who supported RCTA throughout FY26, thank you for being part of the mission.
We are proud of what we accomplished in FY26, and we are ready to build on that momentum.🏃♂️
FY27, we are ready. 🇺🇸
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