What camp, started by the United States War Department was used as a military training facility and a detention for American citizens of Japanese descent located in New York?
Recruit Educational Center The Recruit Educational Center was a program started by the US War Department in May 1919 at Camp Upton. It provided language instruction and military training for non-English-speaking and illiterate military inductees. The Recruit Educational Center claimed a widened social role for the U.S. Armed Forces during peacetime. It also intervened in the era’s virulent debates over eugenics, national identity, and the place of immigrants in American society.
Seneca Army Depot The former Seneca Army Depot occupied 10587 acre between Seneca Lake and Cayuga Lake in Seneca County, New York. It was used as a munitions storage and disposal facility by the United States Army from 1941 until the 1990s. The Depot was listed in the 1995 Base Realignment and Closure Commission and formally shut down in 2000. The property has since been transferred to the Seneca County Industrial Development Agency, which leases it to Seneca County Economic Development Corp.