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Training camp for "ninety-day wonders" opens at Leon Springs
On this day in 1917, the First Officers Training Camp was established just north of Anderson Hill at Camp Funston on the Leon Springs Military Reservation, near San Antonio. As part of America's mobilization for World War I, the FOTC was to provide in ninety days most of the junior officers for newly formed divisions. The trainees became known as "ninety-day wonders." By the end of World War I more than 32,000 acres near Leon Springs was in use by the army.
- Links to Related Handbook of Texas Online Articles
- LEON SPRINGS MILITARY RESERVATION
- WORLD WAR I
- SAN ANTONIO, TX
- Other Texas Day by Day Articles for This Date
- First battle of Mexican War fought in South Texas (1846)
- German scientist concludes tour of Texas (1847)
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