Under the major reorganization of the War Department, effective March 9, 1942, the Signal Corps was one of the technical services in the Services of Supply (later Army Service Forces). Its organized components served both the Army Ground Forces and the Army Air Forces.The Army Chief Signal Officer was responsible for establishing and maintaining communications service schools for officers and enlisted Soldiers, ranging in qualifications from those holding doctorates to functional illiterates. The single pre-war Signal training site was Fort Monmouth, New Jersey. To keep up with the demand for more signaleers, the CSO opened more training facilities: Camp Crowder, Missouri, Camp Kohler, California, and Camp Murphy, Florida.The Eastern Signal Corps Training Center at Fort Monmouth consisted of an officers’ school, an officer candidate school, an enlisted school and a basic training center at subpost Camp Wood. During its operation from 1941 to 1946, the officer candidate school graduated 21,033 Signal Corps second lieutenants. For more information on the history of the Signal Corps, contact the Adolphus Greely Chapter of the Signal Corps Regimental Association at http://www.scra-agc.org/ or contact Sgt. Major Steven Caffee at (706)791-7882.