After the war he joined the Manhattan Engineer District, and commanded an atomic bomb assembly team at Sandia Base, in New Mexico.

[1] On 1 July 1939, Camm entered the United States Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York.

Camm participated in the final stages of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, and the crossed the flooded Roer River on 3 February 1945.

[1][3] Although only 23 years old, Camm commanded the 303rd Engineer Combat Battalion from 25 August 45 to 16 May 1945, participating in the Allied occupation of West Berlin.

He was promoted to major in the Army of the United States (AUS) on 27 August 1945, but reverted to his substantive rank of first lieutenant in the Corps of Engineers on 19 January 1946.

To replace the reservists who had served in the MED during the war but now were eligible for separation from the Army, the director of the Manhattan Project, Major General Leslie Groves secured the services of fifty West Point graduates from the top ten percent of their classes to man nuclear bomb-assembly teams at Sandia Base in New Mexico.

In 1953 he assumed command of the 2nd Engineer Combat Battalion in Korea, where it was engaged in the final stages of the Korean War as part of the 2nd Infantry Division.

He commanded the 521st Engineer Group in Germany in 1962-1963, and then served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C., for which he was awarded the Legion of Merit.

He earned a second master's degree from George Washington University in 1965, this time in international relations,[1][11][12] and attended the Harvard Business School Advanced Management Program in 1966.

[12][13] On returning to the United States, he served on the Army staff, where he was involved in tactical nuclear war planning.

In this role he was involved with the Army's response to the environmental movement, and he was awarded a second oak leaf cluster to his Legion of Merit.

[8][14] He is survived by a similarly named son who rose to be a senior economist at the RAND Corporation, conducting numerous high profile studies related to defense issues and the military industrial complex on behalf of the Pentagon.