Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-09-27 | Page 6 | WACs to Fill Battle Gaps

to Fill Fill Battle Battle Gaps GapsA A A NEW wide nation-wide recruiting campaign forthe for forthe the Women's Army corps Is being launched today It is called the W WAG WAC A C All- All States Recruiting campaign and Is aimed at replacing through Vi WAG WAC A C enlistments the army's man power losses from battle casual casual- ties tics In Utah the campaign is being inaugurated inaugurated inaugurated rated with ith a proclamation from the governors governor's governors governor's governors governor's gover gover- nors nor's office plus the appointment of local committees In various communities of the state to help secure this states state's enlistment quota I Special inducements are being offered to toWY WAG WY V A C recruits during this period in that they are promised that all aU recruits from this state the same being true from other states states states' also will receive their basic training together Each will wear state insignia on the uniform That however is not the most appealing thing about this drive in our opinion The best aid to recruiting should be the aim to replace soldiers killed or made unfit for further further further fur fur- ther duty as a result of c casualties in battle It has been too infrequently brought home to the women of America especially the younger women women that that as W A Cs they do doin doin doin in fact take the place of soldiers Every V WAG A C releases a man for combat service In fact General Eisenhower is authority for forthe forthe forthe the estimate that each WAG W V A C in her non- non combat job is equal to two combat soldiers c p I K J who except for her would have hav to perform tasks those the lines It is quite a challenge being put before the women of America that they replace the army's battle casualties At the last compilation com corn the arm army had men killed Inaction in fn action missing prisoners and wounded many of ot them so seriously they are unfit for further duty Total army casualties are To replace all aU these with ith new W V A Cs Ca Is no easy task as is proven by bytho bytho bytho tho fact that latest estimates place present strength of the V. V WAG WAC A C at around The recruiting campaign will wind up on December 7 Pearl Harbor anniversary which the W WAG WAC A C hopes will wUl be celebrated this year as a victory in their enlistment drive Incidentally if 11 you ou might consider joining up dont don't be backward because you think the V WAG A C might get more snore recruits than It needs The demand for W A Cs Ca in various army jobs far exceeds c the supply The W WAG WAC A C could casU easily place several times as many as it is expecting to recruit in jobs which will release m men n for combat service