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being sent out to bases which had no need for them at all - simply because the only provision which had thus far been made for supplying WAAC personnel in AAF called for distributing them as post headquarters companies within the larger commands, and because each WAAC post headquarters company had a "radio unit". Months later (10 August 1943), when AACS requested its own quota of Wacs, it took a survey of the entire AAF, by the actual names of women who had been assigned to AAF as radio operators and mechanics, to determine where mal-assigned radio personnel was located and re-assign it to the AACS. In many cases, of course, the bases which had such personnel were as eager to see it properly assigned as was AAF Headquarters: On 3 June Mitchel Field reported five WAAC radio operators available for reassignment, since they were "specialists" whose training cannot be utilized at this field".

Under the exact manning table system, although it was possible to supply, as requested by Air Service Command 30 June, "six photographic airbrush artists" - or any other available personnel in the hundreds of skills which had not been included in the WAAC T/O's - it was not possible to supply them with anything like reasonable speed. Each such request had to be referred back to commands for inclusion in total WAAC requisitions for the base in question; the total requisition had to be made into a manning table; and preparation had to be made for activation of the unit, before

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