Aunt Marian completed her basic training at Fort Oglethorpe. Did her feet protest all the marching?
Description of Basic Training in 1944 Recruiting Brochure
Aunt Marian completed her basic training at Fort Oglethorpe. Did her feet protest all the marching?
My Aunt the WAC 
You know what strikes me? How simple it all is. Today, it would take 138 pages of absolutely impenetrable “bureaucratese” to say the same thing. And it wouldn’t sound nearly as appealing as this.
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Interesting thought. . . Your’re right, It wonderfully summarizes lots of information into a few easy to read paragraphs.
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I like how the ad paints a picture of what you will feel like, more than it outlines what you will do. That’s some great writing! ❤
Diana xo
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I like how you looked at it through the lens of a good writer. 🙂
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My Aunt, mother’s youngest sister, joined the WAVES in1942 or 43. She shared many similar memories with me. She went in as a Lt. As she already had a college degree. She was invited to attend the Women’s Memorial when it opened in Wa DC a few years ago. So I am really enjoying these posts. Thank you.
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It’s wonderful to hear that you are enjoying this blog. It’s awesome that your aunt was invited to the Women’s Memorial opening. I’m hoping to visit it sometime.
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The less they knew the better! ~Elle
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🙂
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I find the wording, “you’ll learn the common sense of Army regulations” amusing. Never could find common sense when I was doing my time. However the best sign I saw was when being processed out. It was a hand written signed placed out of eye sight of officers. It read “The U.S. Army 200 years of traditions unhampered by progress.”
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LOL–What a wonderful sign. I love it.
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I could use a course in mess management.
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You’ll have to join the WACs. 🙂
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They sound pretty kind and supportive. Maybe only the men had Drill Sergeants that screamed at them 🙂
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maybe. . . Of course, I got this out of a recruiting brochure so they had to make everything sound pretty good.
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It sounds rigorous. I wonder if many recruits wanted to go home soon after they arrived.
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It must have been quite an adventure! 🙂
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