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.
Story by Lori Stewart | U.S. Army Intelligence Center of Excellence | 07.28.2023
On 31 July 2004, Lt. Col. Martha Schuchart Sachs, one of the first women assigned to the Second Signal Service Battalion, passed away at the age of ninety. She served for twenty-three years, from 1944-1967, with the Army Security Agency....
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 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 Mark Olsen | New Jersey National Guard | 03.23.2021
It was impulse move. “I was walking down Euclid Avenue in Cleveland on a Sunday afternoon,” said Pennington resident Ruth Fiala. “I happened to pass by the recruiting office.”...
Story by Sgt. Salvatore Ottaviano | 99th Readiness Division | 01.19.2020
TRENTON, N.J. – New Jersey Secretary of State Tahesha Way and the New Jersey Martin Luther King Jr. Commemorative Commission hosted the state’s annual tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. Jan. 19 at the N.J. State Museum Auditorium here....
Story by Maj. Michelle Lunato | 98th Training Division -Initial Entry Training | 04.20.2017
She joined the Army because she didn’t have anything to do and could not afford to go to college. Now, looking back on 43 years, that decision gave her a career, but also amazing friends and mentors, a loving family and even, a Legion of Merit....
