April 11, 2007

The Citizens Military Training Camps, a month-long program created by the National Defense Act of 1910, were held each summer between 1921 and 1940. The voluntary camps conducted at approximately fifty military camps throughout the nation provided basic military training for men for no future military obligation. Approximately 400,000 men, such as these seen training at the state’s former World War I facility, Camp Pike, completed at least one summer session.