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the actual requisition for the people concerned could be placed with WAAC Headquarters. The exact manning tables did provide for better utilization of WAAC skills, since, when all Waacs were placed in T/O units, they were assigned to do the limited number of jobs listed on the T/O's, no matter what their civilian skills might have been; and since commands, accustomed for years to thinking within the boundaries of rigid tables of organizations, were loath to use personnel sent to them under a T/O in any jobs not provided for by the T/O.

WAC Grades Abolished

Throughout the summer AAF Headquarters worked on a plan to simplify the system for requisitioning and assigning WAAC personnel, and on August 19 forwarded to the War Department, G-1 and G-3 divisions, a recommendation which was simplicity itself: AAF recommended that WAAC grades be abolished. (1) It had become apparent that the troubles which arose came from conceiving of WAAC personnel as a special type of personnel which had to be assigned, counted, and administered apart from all other types of military personnel. Insofar as their housekeeping went, Waacs obviously had to be administered separately; insofar as their jobs went, if they were to be utilized with maximum efficiency they had to be administered

1. Memorandum for the Assistant Chiefs of Staff, G-1 and G-3, from the Commanding General, AAF, subject: The Allocation of Waacs and WAAC Grades, dated 19 August 1943.

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