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- <text id=93HT0279>
- <title>
- 1940s: WAAC to WAC
- </title>
- <history>Time-The Weekly Magazine-1940s Highlights</history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- TIME Magazine
- July 12, 1943
- WAAC to WAC
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> President Roosevelt last week signed a bill establishing
- the Woman's Army Corps and giving the Women's Auxiliary Army
- Corps three months to wind up its affairs. As WACs, the WAACs
- will become part of the Army.
- </p>
- <p> The new Corps has wider age limits (20 to 50) and no
- restrictions on its size. WACs will get the same pensions as
- male soldiers, though no allowances for dependents. They will
- be under military discipline, including court-martial. They can
- also write "free" on their letters. WAC officers will rate with
- male opposite members; a first lieutenant will be called just
- that, not "second officer." The Corps will be a pedigreed part
- of the Army, shuck off the stepsister status of auxiliaries.
- </p>
- <p> Before Sept. 30, all 65,000 WAACs will be given a chance
- to sign up the with WAC. War Department brass bonnets believe
- that all but a handful will do so, and say good riddance to the
- few who don't.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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