during world war ii, jean holme joins the waac. she was a young 19-year-old who was from oregon. and while jean was in basic training, she stood out from some of the others because she knew what close-order drill was because she'd belonged to oregon's women's ambulance corps before she'd joined the army. well, jean trained as a truck driver, and she found that she really thrived on army life. when world war ii was over, jean was discharged in this 1945, and she -- in 1945, and she went off to college. meantime, this legislation did go through on the perp innocent corps -- permanent corps for the women's services and recruiting of women who'd served in world war ii for these corps, now, was going full tilt. so in 1948 jean holm got a letter from the government, and it included a postcard which had the women's new permanent corps lists on it. and the newest one on there was the air force. and jean holm told us, well, i thought that sounded really nice. like it was something new and exciting, so i checked off the air force in the little box, and i put the postcard into the mail and w

six month t later jean holme's commission hadn't come through, so she went to colonel smith and said, hey, you know, what's happened to my commission? well, colonel smith called the pentagon, and then she called jean into her office. and she said, you're not going to get an army commission. you are on the list for the air force. and they're not going to let you go. [laughter] on her way to lackland air force base, jean holme met some men who were traveling to lackland, and they were telling her that they had an assignment to go toeredding air force deepo. so jean got to lackland, and they said to her, where do you want to be stationed? she didn't know anything about the air force, and she said, well, i'd like to go to erding supply depo. it was in germany. they looked at her and said nobody wanted to go to erding in germany. at erding they were collecting up some of the wreckage of world war ii and storing it there, so it wasn't too exciting. at erding -- jean stuck to her guns and shay -- they sent her. which one do you want? there's billet for maintenance officer, supply officer, or

during world war ii, jean holmes joined the waac. she was a 19-year-old from oregon, and while she was in basic training she stood out from some of the others because she knew what the close order drill was because she had belonged to the oregon women's corps before she joined the army. she trained as a truck driver and found that she thrived on the army life. world war two was over gene was discharged in 1945 and went off to college. in the meantime, this legislation did go through on the permanent course for the women's services and the recruiting of the women who served in world war ii now was going full tilt. so 1948, jeanne got a letter from the government and it included a postcard which had of the women's new permanent corps listed on it, and the newest one on there was the air force. and she told us well, i thought that sounded really nice like it was something new and exciting so i checked off the air force in the little box and by the coast into the mail and went back to college and forgot all about it. well, when the next