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Commission on Training Camp Activities  

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  • On April 17, 1918, just 11 days after the formal U.S. declaration of war in World War I, the War Department created a new federal agency, the Commission on Training Camp Activities (CTCA), and charged it with protecting the men in uniform from the twin scourges of moral corruption and venereal disease. Americans had long associated military camps with disease and immorality; during the conflicts on the Mexican border, Pres. [Source: Encyclopedia of War & American Society; Commission on Training Camp Activities]

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