Story by Maj. Tyler Mitchell | 83RD United States Army Reserve Readiness Training Center | 10.28.2023
Night at the Patton Museum October 28, 2023, Commemorates the Women's Army Corps 80th Anniversary.
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.14.2023
On February 17, 1945, 30-year-old Women’s Army Corps (WAC) enlistee Doris Van Wickel was promoted to second lieutenant. She would remain on active duty for the next year, working within the Pentagon as an intelligence analyst....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 02.06.2023
In early February 1946, the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) Detachment for the Military Intelligence Service Language School (MISLS) at Fort Snelling, Minnesota, was inactivated. The short-lived detachment had provided oversight of the one and only class of female—primarily second-generation Japanese American (Nisei)—translators trained at the school during World War II....
Courtesy Story | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 06.27.2022
Effective July 1, 1974, all women officers in the Army were permanently detailed to branches other than the Women’s Army Corps. Instead of having a primary specialty related solely to the WAC, they now would be detailed to another Army branch and choose a specialty related to that branch. Although WAC remained their basic branch by law, these women were thereafter considered full-fledged......
Story by Wesley Farnsworth | 88th Air Base Wing | 08.24.2021
For many people, living through something like the COVID-19 global pandemic, 9/11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center or moon landing might be considered a once-in-a-lifetime event....
Story by Sgt. 1st Class Latonya Kelly | U.S. Army Human Resources Command | 05.15.2021
The U.S. Army Human Resources Command recognizes a veteran of the Women’s Army Corps (WAC) during the 79th Anniversary of the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on May 15, 2021. Susan Kilianski, HRC Government Release Specialist and U.S. Army retired Sgt. 1st Class, shares her journey in the WAC as a 71H, personnel specialist when she enlisted in July 1973....
Story by Eric Pilgrim | Fort Knox | 04.06.2021
In January 1947, a call to join the Women’s Army Corps spread across the United States as the need for female Soldiers continued to grow. Several women answered the call. Among them was an enthusiastic new recruit: Pvt. Trudy Gettinger....
Story by Spc. Tiffany Banks | 1st Cavalry Division | 12.17.2020
FORT HOOD, Texas -- First Team Troopers with the 1st Cavalry Division Band received a visit from Jeanne Pace, retired Chief Warrant Officer 5, here, 17 Dec. 2020....
