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Betty Bandel was assigned to AAF Headquarters as "Air WAAC Officer". The Air WAAC Officer was at first placed under the supervision of Maj Gen O. P. Echols, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Materiel, Maintenance, and Distribution (where the Air Engineer, Air Quartermaster, etc., were located), but later, in November of 1943, was transferred so as to be under the supervision of Maj Gen James Bevans, Assistant Chief of Air Staff, Personnel.

First Problem

First major WAAC problem to face the AAF after WAAC post headquarters companies began arriving at air bases in March of 1943 had to do with the mechanics of assignment. When the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps was first organized, it was recognized that it would be necessary to house and administer the woman in WAAC groups, and therefore it was planned to activate companies of Waacs, organizing and training them at training centers and sending them to the field as organized units. Since all formally organized military groups were at that time activated according to a standard blueprint in the form of a table of organization, a table of organization for "WAAC post headquarters companies, AAF" was drawn up which provided for activation of 150- woman units, each with a set number of privates, corporals, etc., and each with a set number of clerks and clerk-typists (over half the group), telephone operators, drivers, weather observers, and radio operators.

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