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Show the enlisted women are given specialized training in such area as electronics, radio and communications, commu-nications, personnel machine accounting, ac-counting, disbursing, journalism, air control, medical arid dental. Women officers serve in a variety va-riety of fields, such as personnel, public information, administration, administra-tion, communications, intelligence, intelli-gence, comptrollership and special spe-cial services. Many of them are sent by the Navy for post-graduate training at civilian universities. univer-sities. The National WAVES reunion of 1958 was held July 25-27 in Detroit, Michigan. Navy WAVES Note Sixteenth Anniversary July 30 marked the 16th anniversary an-niversary of the formation of the WAVES. During World War II, the WAVE uniform was known in the U. S. Hawaii, where over 86,-000 86,-000 women were performing a great variety of Navy shore jobs. Now, sixteen years later, approximately ap-proximately 6,000 women are still on active duty with the Navy, and they are still performing perform-ing the essential jobs that made them indispensable during the war. Women in the Navy have gone a long way in 16 years. They began as a reserve component of the Navy and were then called Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service. WAVES are now a part of the regular Navy, and serve aboard transport ships, in the air, at stations overseas as well as in the continental U. S. Women are needed in the Navy now, just as they were needed in 1942. WAVES on active duty now comprise a trained nucleus which, in time of national emergency, emer-gency, can be utilized to train the large numbers of . women that will be requiredt o help fill the. Navy's shore billets and free officers and men to man our fleet. Just as training is the watchword watch-word for the men in the peacetime peace-time Navy, it is the first responsibility respon-sibility for the women. Approximately 75 per cent of |