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The GI's said:

Everything from, "Those who were connected with our office were efficient and well-liked, and this was true throughout the headquarters”', to virulent invectives against the idea of women in uniform - "The army's no place for a woman. The job's too tough for them. Anyway, there're too many men around trying to get fresh. No sister of mine would ever join."

The Wacs said:

"Our company had one record of which I think we can be justly proud. In my 18 months' tour of duty we never had an AWOL." Or (of a desolate desert station): "Women should never have been stationed at this hell-hole". Or: "I wouldn't have missed it for the world".

The public said:

"They're doing a wonderful job." Or, enthusiastically but a little inaccurately: "They're angels of mercy". Or: "What! My daughter join the WAC? No, sir!" One keen old observer remarked to an army officer, speaking of the tendency of Wacs to stick together and stand up for each other, "You know, the only thing I can think of that was anything like it was the Confederate Army".

Because the WAC was new and experimental, almost everyone was interested in it and almost everyone had something to say about it. Army men frequently judged the whole WAC program by the first Wac they met. Opinions and expressions tended toward extremes. As always, the truth lay somewhere between the extremes.

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