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WAC RECRUITING - 222 3333

and women have mutual problems and interests, romance frequently results. It is no secret that soldiers and Wacs have married.

KARESH: A-h-h-h. You're very pretty lieutenant. Do I detect a bit of romance in your voice?

WALKER: Well, you can never tell. I'm a soldier, but I'l still a woman, too, sergeant.

KARESH: Well, I'm sure the man that gets you will be a lucky chap, and he'll be the envy of all men that go for the petite blonde type that you are too. But tell me something of your army career.

WALKER: Well, I was the second woman to enlist in the [[strikethrough]] 5 [[/strikethrough]] Wacs in Indiana and I was in the first group of Wacs to report to Fort Des Moines for training. That was back in July of 1942.

KARESH: You're almost a two-year man - pardon, I mean a two-year woman, aren't you?

WALKER: I guess you're right, but it doesn't seem nearly that long. After I finished officers' training school I was assigned to the army morale's branch and that work has taken me to Lexington, Virginia, Washington, D.C., down to Louisiana and finally brought me here to Cincinnati with Headquarters Ferrying Division. I'm temporarily doing recruiting new because we need 5,000 Wacs for the Air Transport Command, and we need them desperately. Incidentally, one of our recruits is here tonight. She's Pvt. Joan Roberts, and sergeant, I wish you would get her ideas on the Wacs.

KARESH: Certainly, ma'am - get me, that's the first time I ever called a lieutenant "ma'am".

WALKER: Well, I hope you have to do it often. I mean, I hope we get so many Wacs that there will always be lots of Wac officers around.

Karesh: It will be a privilege, lieutenant. Now Pvt. Roberts, where are you from?

ROBERTS: [[strikethrough]] I'm from Cincinnati.

KARESH: Cincinnati: So you're going to serve right here.