Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 November 1948 — Page 4

All-Male Base Tunes Ear to Astounding Soprano Voices and Surprising Precision

GREAT LAKES, III, Nov. 19. ~The tide of servicewomen in

demobilization to an ebb of below 2000 last June.

the

U. 8. has turned. The WAVES are coming in again at Camp John

From a wartime personnel flood of 86,000, the WAVES receded Then Nayy asked Congress to plug the leak by eracting Public Law

the SP Saline thy Jaay soldiers part)" rilly mornings with crisp ular-Navy recruits arrived at'two, three, four—your left Great Lakes last month, astound-|your left!”

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drilling with embarrassing prejeision. Every ten weeks hereafter, half a company of newly-inducted WAVES will move in for a rigorous basic training program, and a like number will leave for duty stations or service schools. Schedules Crammed That 10 weeks, however, will never be mistaken for a rest cure. Melodious though the commands may be, they are delivered with

.{the insistence of a locomotive In almost no time, ing the traditionally all-male base the trim, blue-clad figures were They have to, in order to crowd

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the comparatively short “boot” phase of their Navy lives, Ample Recreation Crammed daily schedules Include lectures on everything from Naval history, through ships and aircraft, to first aid. Instructors are commissioned WAVE officers who were teachers in civiliangife. The physical training program, altheugh naturally not up to the obstaclescourse standards of their male counterparts, is tough enough to make the healthiest seaman recruit hit her double-

AVES Returning To Navy Train At Camp John Paul Jones

all their training activities intodecked sack with a sigh of grati-

{tude each night.

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Formal graduation completes the whirlwind recruit training period. A ¢ombination of apti-

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FRIDAY, NOV. 19, 1948 :

the most pressing demand for the WAVE yeoman, while the needs iof the hospital corps come next. WAVES saw service at more than 1000 stations in the United States and Hawail during War II. The establishment of the Recruit School at Camp John Paul Jones marks the ungrudging admission of the Navy brass that a sailor in skirts is good national defense. From the

WAVE's point of view, the Navy now offers an interesting career, 80 everyone is happy. z

But oh, those first 10 weeks.

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