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The army was already becoming aware at this time that tables of organization, although admirable for organizing combat units (like rifle companies, in which the same number of men were needed to do the same number of jobs, whether the unit was stationed in Timbuktu or Peoria), were a cumbersome way of accounting for the "overhead personnel" at a fixed installation. The problem was accentuated when a T/O was prepared, not for the entire post overhead, but for the women soldiers who happened to be a part of that overhead. Every post's needs differed, and obviously, according to the size and mission of the post, some could use 150 women while others could use double that number; some could use women drivers or radio operators and others needed clerks. Obviously, also, if there were 150 Waacs among two thousand soldiers utilized at a given installation, the 150 might, by the assignments they held or by their degree of skill, merit 150 of the highest - or the lowest - grades available on the post. There was no reason why the 150 women, simply because, as women, they were housed and administered together as a company, should have a cross-section of grades with a certain percentage of women in each grade. (1) In March, 1943, the AAF was studying the whole problem of how to organize and 

1. Months and even years after this system was abandoned, and women were occupying grades according to the jobs held out of the total number of grades allotted to a base, base commanders occasionally bemoaned the abolition of "WAC T/O's", saying that it was easier to see that women got "their proper- 

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