Editing Fort Slocum (section)

===World War II===
On 16 May 1941, as war raged in Europe, Fort Slocum became part of the [[New York Port of Embarkation]], becoming a staging area for troops moving overseas.  Fort Slocum also trained cadre to set up other staging areas in Greater New York, such as [[Camp Kilmer]] and [[Camp Shanks]] in 1941 and 1942. Fort Slocum hosted the Atlantic Coast Transportation Officers' Training School, acquainting former civilians from the transportation industries with the Army.<ref name=FWiki1/> The fort was a key element of the Army's [[Transportation Corps]], so named in mid-1942, whose mission was moving huge numbers of men and amounts of materiel overseas.<ref name=FWiki1/>

By early 1944 the need to ship troops to Europe had lessened, and a policy of rotating troops in the US who hadn't seen action to overseas battlefields and the reverse was instituted. Battle-hardened soldiers returning from Europe were put through a "Provisional Training Center" at Fort Slocum to re-acquaint them with the stateside Army, with its surplus of proper military appearance, courtesy, and discipline, along with its deficit of actually shooting Germans. In May 1944 Private Willie Lee Duckworth of Sandersville, Georgia devised the famous "Sound off, one, two" [[military cadence]] while attending one of these classes.<ref name=Duck1/><ref name=Duck2/><ref name=FWiki1/> In November 1944, as the transportation school wound down, Fort Slocum took on a mission of rehabilitating soldiers who had been [[court-martial]]ed in Europe and sent home.<ref name=FWiki1/>