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where they spend six weeks reviewing and up /: moredetail ..bjeets taught them during thjir basic training and studying, in addition, properly accountability, leadership, mess management, company administration, a'd methods of teaching. Teach , in.. ther members of the corps i how to become good soldiers is ! ti.iir major job after graduation.' The first call of the Women's I Army was for women to be t -ain-ed as officers. It brought a response of 30,000 applications, from v/kich 1300 women were seiected to make up the first nine officer candidate classes. The tenth ancl subsequent classes have been drawn entirely from the ranks of, the corps.The lirst group destined to receive commissions as Third Ofli-cers, the WAAC equivalent ofSecoiiJl Lieutenants in the Army, went straight from civilian life to Fort Des Moines, on Juy 20, 1942, to plunge into a concentrated course of study designed to transform them into leaders of the new*women's army. They were graduated, 436 strong, on August 29, and spent the following two weeks in post graduate practical work for the type ol duties they were tome,-- - w J:-----Their first assignments, made in September, were to work as staff and faculty officers at Fort Desbefore Christmas. |Sixteen WAAC ol l it ers entered 1 Command and General Stall ! School, Ft. Leu\ enwir\h. Kun.. ijm February i) :o attend the stream- , lined Army Service Forces course. Other WAAC officers are now attending or ha ve attended the Special Services School at Wash- . ington and Lee University. Lex- j ington. Vy.; Inspector Generals ? School in Washington, D. LV. ! Chemical Warfare School at Edge- ! wood Arsenal. Md.. and the Army ! Exchange School :il Princeton. .\f. •They are iearning w jrk in spec- *«lalized iields so they cun *ake over ; direction of the Women's Army ! in those fields. This wilt permi: i Army men who were loaned lo the corps to help in its orgnnixal. ... and training program lo return U* active duty with the Army and will speed the attainment of sell-' sufnciency for which the WAAC • is striving in its training program. ; Already large numbers of the Army Officers who acted as in- , struclors, drill masters and company officers have gone back ;o ' I heir former Arm ys tat sons and ‘ more and mere are being enabled | lo.xiu-^u as.WAAC officers* become j qualified to supervise training ;conter headquarters and sections. :j
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Ruston Daily Leader
Ruston, Louisiana, US
Wed, May 19, 1943
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