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WAC Air Controller painting by Dan V. Smith, 1943. The Women's Army Corps (WAC) was the women's branch of the United States Army.It was created as an auxiliary unit, the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) on 15 May 1942, and converted to an active duty status in the Army of the United States as the WAC on 1 July 1943.
WAC Corporal, the first U.S. sounding rocket; Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center, extension of Virginia Tech; Waste Acceptance Criteria, European criteria required to establish whether a waste is suitable for different classes of landfill; see Technical Guidance WM2; Wathaurong Aboriginal Co-operative, community organisation in Geelong ...
A A&TWF – Acquisition and technology work force a – Army AA – Assembly area AA – Anti-aircraft AA – Aegis ashore AAA – Anti-aircraft artillery "Triple A" AAAV – Advanced Amphibious Assault Vehicle AAC – Army Air Corps AAD – Armored amphibious dozer AADC – Area air defense commander AAE – Army acquisition executive AAG – Anti-aircraft gun AAK – Appliqué armor kit (US ...
The WAC Corporal was the first sounding rocket developed in the United States and the first vehicle to achieve hypersonic speeds. [1] It was an offshoot of the Corporal program, that was started by a partnership between the United States Army Ordnance Corps and the California Institute of Technology (named "ORDCIT") in June 1944 with the ultimate goal of developing a military ballistic missile.
WEC is both a specific model and a developing concept relating to WAC; the acronym was created by Pamela Flash and her colleagues at The University of Minnesota. [35] Flash is the university's director of Writing Across the Curriculum, founding director of the Writing-Enriched Curriculum and co-director of the writing center. [39]
In 1950, the Women's Army Corps (WAC) were issued new Goldenlite yellow-on-brown insignia for wear with the taupe WAC uniform. It was the same size as the men's small 2-inch-wide Goldenlite stripes. It was the same size as the men's small 2-inch-wide Goldenlite stripes.
Once upon a time, four letters were commonly used to describe the queer community as a whole: "L" for lesbian, "G" for gay, "B" for bisexual and "T" for trans, creating an acronym: LGBT.
Douglass, now using her married name, Jane Douglass White, worked by mail with fellow WAC veteran Camilla Mays Frank to update the lyrics. [3] In 1951, their latest revision "Song of the Women's Army Corps" was accepted by the corps as its official anthem, and on March 21, 1951, the newly constituted 14th Army Band (WAC) debuted the song on the ...