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Forces stated in no uncertain terms that it wanted full supervisory control of any personnel whose utilization and care were an AAF responsibility. The former system of centralizing all control in the Service Commands and of establishing a direct WACC channel of communication from WAAC units through the supervising WAAC officers in Service Command Headquarters to the Director, WAAC, in SOS Headquarters, had been set up during the experimental period to insure the War Department frequent first-hand reports on the progress of the new program, during its trial-and-error days. Both the War Department and the Director, WAAC, felt by March of 1943 that the trial period was over, however, and that the WAAC program was successfully established, with broad principles for the supervision and utilization of WAAC personnel already defined and in operation. For this reason the War Department agreed to begin the decentralization of control of Waacs, along the lines which had already been established for the decentralization of the control of other military personnel, so that the various using agencies - Air, Ground, and Service Forces - could administer Waacs as they did other military personnel.

In March of 1943 Waacs begin to arrive at air bases throughout the country, and within a few weeks they were formally "assigned" to the AAF units in which they were serving. They were AAF Waacs. The period of planning and experimentation was definitely over. The period of utilization had begun.

join the army as volunteers four separate and distinct times in one war. Three of the decisions were made after they knew everything there was to know about the strict regime of army life.

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