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A post card sent by an American enlisted man from Camp Dodge, IA around 1918 In June 1917, the 163rd Depot Brigade was formed at Camp Dodge. [ 4 ] The brigade was the base unit for the 88th Division , which processed new draftees and provided basic training. [ 5 ]
The designated mobilization and training station for the division was Camp Dodge. For annual training the headquarters and staff usually trained with the staff of the 14th Infantry Brigade, either at Fort Crook, Nebraska, or Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
Civil Air Patrol offers a cadet program which provides leadership training, technical education, scholarships and career education to youth aged 12 to 21. The program includes CAP encampments and access to glider and powered aircraft flights. [13] The Iowa Wing encampment is generally held in the summer at Camp Dodge in Johnston. [14]
The Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School was a military base and training facility on the south side of Des Moines, Iowa.Established in 1901, the base trained African American officers for the U.S. Army during World War I and was where women first began training for US Army service in 1942 as part of the Women's Army Corps.
Iowa Army National Guard and the; Iowa Air National Guard; The Iowa National Guard headquarters is at Camp Dodge in Johnston, several miles north of the state capital Des Moines. The facility serves double duty as a continuity of government facility for the state of Iowa, as well as hosting the central hub of the state's extensive fiber optic ...
The regiment conducted annual summer training most years at Camp Dodge, Iowa, from 1921–39. For at least two years, in 1938 and 1940, the regiment also trained some eighteen company-grade infantry officers of the 89th Division at Camp Dodge and Camp Ripley, Minnesota.
Organized September 1918 at Camp Dodge, Iowa from personnel of the 35th Infantry. Relieved from the 19th Division and demobilized 27 January 1919 at Camp Dodge. Constituted 15 November 1941 in the Army of the United States as the 87th Infantry Mountain Regiment; concurrently 1st Battalion activated at Fort Lewis, Washington. Redesignated 12 May ...
19TH DIVISION, CAMP DODGE, IA ERA SSI 19th Division (World War I): Organized in 1918 as a regular army and national army division for World War I, the 19th Division did not go overseas and demobilized in February 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa. [1] 19th Infantry Division: a "phantom" division in World War II.