The only training camp exclusively for Negro officers was at Fort Des Moines, Iowa.

This camp ran from June 15, 1917, to October 15, 1917.

A total of 638 officers was graduated and commissioned from the camp.

Negro Regulars and Negro National Army men who had passed the tests for admission to officers training camps were sent mainly to the training schools for machine gun officers at Camp Hancock, Augusta, Georgia; the infantry officers training school at Camp Pike, Little Rock, Arkansas, and the artillery officers training school at Camp Taylor, Louisville, Kentucky.

They were trained along with the white officers.