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Until a year ago, female officers could command only other members of the Women's Army Corps (the WAC). The Army, however, is now reassigning women permanently to previously all-male branches. Brigadier General Mildred C. Bailey, chief of the WAC, last month finished turning over all its personnel files to the women's new units. At the same time, the Army has reclassified 136,000 jobs, opening them to women. Thus there have recently been a myriad of female firsts on various bases: the first female parachute rigger, the first turbine-engine maintenance woman, the first female...
...former battalion commander at Fort Carson, Colo., explains: "A soldier's day doesn't end at 5 p.m. There are assignments like guard duty with a rifle, charge of quarters, and special police handling of burly drunks." Women formerly rose through the ranks only within the WAC. Now they are competing directly with men for promotions. The seeding into various Army branches of senior WAC officers, some of whom have been lieutenant colonels for more than a decade, is especially difficult. Many fear a hostile reception in the regular Army; a few are even retiring rather than make...
Period Piece. The musical is constructed roughly as a troop tram's seven-day cross-country voyage from Los Angeles to New York. Patty and Maxene, costumed in a sort of WAC usherette motif, are lovably running the train's U.S.O. canteen. The 40s collage includes precautionary Army VD lectures, Glenn Miller band impersonations, little jokes about "going all the way," period slang ("cow juice and Java") and a likable fantasy of America's postwar dreams-Esther Williams bathing beauties backstroking across the dry stage...
...Government. But what really ticked Truman off was a letter that he said Ike wrote General George Marshall, the Army's Chief of Staff, after the war asking to be relieved of duty so that he could divorce his wife Mamie and marry Kay Summersby, a British WAC who doubled as his driver and secretary during the campaign in Europe...
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