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Run like the military, the CCC was locally supervised by army personnel with help from the Forest Service and National Park Service. During its nine-year life, the CCC built 1,468 camps and enrolled almost 2.5 million young men, nearly all from deprived, rural backgrounds. Although the day work of the CCC occupied these men with planting trees, building campgrounds, and fighting fires, night hours were often spent in educational instruction, as nearly two-thirds of the corps were high-school dropouts. Attendance at classes was voluntary, and teachers struggled to keep the corpsmen motivated. Many classes taught remedial instruction to men who had only rudimentary schooling, while others continued traditional academic instruction. Some corpsmen attended classes in nearby colleges. About a third of all instruction was vocational, instructing the corpsmen in typewriter use, drafting, surveying, construction, agricultural science, and radio and auto repair. One army captain taught a course...
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