Camp Funston Camp Funston was a U . S . Army training camp located on Fort Riley , southwest of Manhattan , Kansas . The camp was named for Brigadier General Frederick Funston ( 1865 – 1917 ) . Camp Funston was one of sixteen Divisional Cantonment Training Camps established at the outbreak of World War I . History . Construction began during the summer of 1917 and eventually encompassed approximately 1 , 400 buildings on . During World War I , nearly 50 , 000 recruits trained at the camp , commanded by Major General Leonard Wood . Notable units who received training at Camp Funston include the 89th Division , which was deployed to France in the spring of 1918 , the 10th Division and black soldiers assigned to the 92nd Division . Among those trained at Camp Funston was Texas State Representative George Peddy , also the past student body president of the University of Texas , who managed to obtain a permit to return to Austin for the impeachment proceedings against Governor James E . Ferguson . During World War I , Camp Funston also served as a detention camp for conscientious objectors ( COs ) many of which were Mennonite in faith . Since it was compulsory , Hutterites sent their young men to military camps , but they did not allow them to obey any military commands or wear a uniform . At Camp Funston , the men were beaten and tortured , dragged by their hair , and even chased by motorcycles until they dropped from exhaustion . They were hung by their feet above water so that they nearly drowned . In March 1918 , some of the first recorded American cases of what came to be the worldwide influenza epidemic , also known as " Spanish Flu " , were reported at Camp Funston . Prior to 1 October 1992 , Camp Funston was the home of the United States Army Correctional Activity whose mission was to prepare prisoners for transition to civilian life as useful citizens or , in a few select cases , for return to duty . The Correctional Brigade environment was unique in that prisoner control was maintained by military discipline , instead of walls and bars for most of the typical prisoners ’ stay . The Correctional Brigade doctrine was that the minimum custody / military discipline environment when coupled with correctional treatment , educational programs , military and vocational training best prepared the typical first - time prisoner for a crime - free life after prison as either a productive soldier or a useful citizen in civilian life . Moreover , this correctional system was asserted to be less expensive to establish and operate than the traditional prison . Today , Camp Funston is the location where all military transition team s for service in Iraq and Afghanistan takes place . Previously , transition teams had been trained at several U . S . Army installations , most notably Fort Carson , Colorado ; Camp Atterbury , Indiana ; Fort Hood , Texas ; and Camp Shelby , Mississippi . However , in early 2006 , the U . S . Army decided to consolidate all training at Fort Riley , Kansas in order to standardize and improve training for that critical mission . The first teams began training on June 1 , 2006 . The 1st Brigade , 1st Infantry Division took over command and control of the TT mission in October 2006 . The brigade is responsible for the formation and training of the TT teams . This mission will shift to Fort Polk , Louisiana later in 2009 .