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3 unusual facts about Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School


Fort Des Moines

Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School (1901-present), a U.S. Army Reserve training center south of Des Moines.

George Washington Lee

At the outbreak of World War I, Lee was determined to enter the Fort Des Moines Provisional Army Officer Training School in Iowa.

John B. Coulter

After the war, Coulter served in the War Department's Personnel Branch, and then assumed command of 2nd Squadron 14th Cavalry at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.


Jasper Alston Atkins

Following his graduation of Yale Law School in 1922, Atkins moved to Muskogee, Oklahoma to open a law firm with Carter Walker Wesley, a Northwestern Law School graduate and fellow Fraternity brother who was initiated at the Fraternity's Ft. Des Moines chapter.


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