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women must be placed, for administrative purposes, under the command of WAAC officers. Circular 266 provided for the inactivation of all WAAC T/O units and the absorption of Waacs within "overhead allotments of grades and strength", but also required commands to organize their Waacs for administrative purposes into WAAC detachments commanded by WAAC officers.

Air Forces implemented Circular 226 by publishing (10 November 1943) AAF Regulation 35-44, which thereafter served as the basic regulation on administration of AAF WAC personnel. Unlike Service Forces, which still set aside a part of its allotment of strength and grades in each service command for its WAC personnel, Air Forces simply provided that WACS might occupy and appropriate military jobs and grades within a command's allotment (1), and required commands to organize their Wacs into WAC "squadrons" commanded by WAC

1. Although Service Forces' system guaranteed a certain number of grades of Waacs, Air Forces' procedure apparently resulted in greater freedom in  utilizing Waacs and greater equity between men and women doing similar jobs. A check made in December, 1944, revealed that ASF Wacs were on the whole more highly graded that AAF Wacs, but that, within AAF, Wacs and men with the same length of service had received about the same number of promotions. (AAF Statistical Control Division, Office of Management Control, Report, dated 21 March 1945, subject: Statistical Analysis of AGCT Scores, Grades, and Length of Service of AAF Enlisted Personnel in Continental U.S.) Almost all very highly graded AAF enlisted persons at that time were men who had entered the service in early 1943 or before - when there were no Wavs in AAF - but what grades had become available from mid-1943 on (when the AAF was levelling off its strength, and grade vacancies were consequently becoming fewer) had be distributed equally between men and women. 

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