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WAC RECRUITING [?]

ROBERTS: Here's once a private can tell a sergeant he's wrong. No, I'm going out to California. You see, when I enlisted in the WAC to serve with the Air Transport Command, I got to choose my initial station. I had to pic Cincinnati first, because its located in the service command I enlisted in, which was here in town. Then the ATC gives you another choice, so I took Palm Springs, California. 

KARESH: You made a wise choice, from what I know about Palm Springs. Now let's see, the Air Transport Command lets you pick your overseas base, too, doesn't it, and you can go there if you ar qualified.

ROBERTS: Yes, that's right. I picked Africa. I'll get my basic training at a WAC training camp then spend three months at my domestic base. Then if a person who does my type of work is needed overseas, and I'm qualified, I'll get to go. We already have WACs with the Air Transport Command in Hawaii.

KARESH: I suppose you are eager to get across. 

ROBERTS: You bet I am! Most of the girls are, although the WAC won't make you go over unless you want to. 

KARESH: By the way, Jean, what work did you do in civilian life.

ROBERTS: Well sergeant, my civilian job made me intimately acquainted with the Ferrying Division of the Air Transport Command. You see I was employed in the Command's public relations office here in Cincinnati. I wrote news stories about our pilots and about our many other activites. When the chance came for me to enlist in the army and stay with the Ferrying Division and the Air Transport Command, I jumped at it. You see, I know what a great organization this ATC is. Its around-the world airways system is one of the miracle of this war. Never has it failed to get the airplanes and supplies to every battle front when they were needed. Naturally, it needs thousands of people on the ground to