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...Guardhouse. The atmosphere in the WAAC study hall is tense, like that in college before mid-year exams. They study overtime (sometimes risking demerits for reading under the red EXIT lights in the barracks after taps...
They drill after sundown in small groups, grimly determined to pivot smartly on the command of "Squads right." They swallow their bitterest potion-barrack life, bunk to bunk-without a murmur on the invasion of their privacy. (One WAAC did use her weekend liberty two weeks after induction to take a large double room in the Fort Des Moines Hotel and sit happily alone in the middle of it.) For four hours a day, for a full day and a half at week's end the WAACs can do what they please. When the study hall closes...
They may date enlisted men and noncommissioned officers until they are graduated. Dates with officers must wait until they are officers themselves. But no WAAC has yet been disciplined for conduct unbecoming an officer candidate. No recalcitrant WAAC will be sent to the guardhouse. Svelte, smart, serene Oveta Hobby, the director, suggests: "Dock'em." Colonel Faith's idea: "Curtail their privileges...
Significant item: when a nocturnal mouse invaded Company No. 1's quarters, there were no screams. A WAAC coolly slew it with a well-aimed shoe...
Director Oveta Gulp Hobby, a colonel's eagles on her shoulders and the WAAC's Pallas Athene on her lapels, reviewed her charges for the first time last week. Said she: "Military tradition has given way to a pressing need and you are the first women to serve as an auxiliary force with the United States Army. Never forget it. You have taken off silk and put on khaki. And all for essentially the same reason-you have a debt and a date. A debt to democracy, a date with destiny...