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Women At War

      Women have appeared in many wars in the American 
history.  Some include WW II and Vietnam. But before the 
WW II there wasn’t really many groups in the Army Corps 
that were dedicated in supporting of the women joining 
the military. But, in the early wars in which the female 
soldiers fought in, they were mainly nurses who took care 
of those who were hurt on the battlefield.  But after a 
while of this, more and more women began to become 
ground infantries and pilots for the Nation’s Army. This 
led for the groups such as the WAC or WASP (Women’s 
Air Service Pilots) to gain dramatically in size.  
Women being sworn into the Army: http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wac/chapter1.htm#p1
 
      The WAAC (Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps) and 
WAC were, surprisingly, formed by the women who 
wanted to fight in wars that men mainly fought in, in the 
1775’s. The men’s perspective about the women joining 
the Army has significantly changed since the first women
joined the Army, with today’s Army. 

      Before, there were only around 150,000 women 
soldiers in the WAC, but now there are many more
types of groups in the Army that allow the women to 
join such as those mentioned above (like WACC or 
WASP or ROTC).  But now imagine, there must be 
hundreds of thousand of more women in the Army alone.