Camp Funston

[2] During World War I, two divisions commanded by Major General Leonard Wood, totaling nearly 50,000 recruits, trained at Camp Funston.

In March 1918, some of the first recorded American cases of what came to be the worldwide influenza pandemic, also known as "Spanish flu", were reported at Camp Funston.

The Army salvaged most frame buildings, except those intended for the cavalry, and preserved the heating plant and waterworks for potential future emergencies.

[4] Prior to October 1992, Camp Funston was the home of the United States Army Correctional Activity, formerly the U.S. Army Retraining Brigade, whose mission was officially to prepare military prisoners for transition to civilian life as useful citizens with general discharges or, in a few select cases, for return to duty.

[5] Camp Funston was the location where the training of all military transition teams for service in Iraq and Afghanistan takes place.