FReeper Canteen ~ Honoring Women Military Bands ~ 20 February 2007

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[Soaring Feather]

Today, we honor, Women Military Bands.


400th WAC Band
Source:Women's World War II Military Bands

Good Morning, Troops!
Thank You for your service!

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On July 20, 1942, the first contingent of women was inducted into the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps (WAAC) at Fort Des Moines, Iowa. By early 1943, five bands, the 400th Army Band, 401st Army Band , 402d Army Band, 403d Army Band, and the 404th Army Band were composed entirely of women. WAAC bands were later redesignated and officially activated in the Women's Army Corps (WAC) on January 21, 1944.


Eventually the only Army Band made up entirely of women, was the 14th Army WAC Band, activated at Fort Meade, Maryland in August 1948. The 14th reported to the Women's Army Corps Training Center at Camp Lee in March the following year. Its commander was WOJG Katherine V. Allen, a graduate of the Julliard School of Music. She also attended the Boston Conservatory, University of Virginia, and The College of William and Mary. Under WOJG Allen's command the 14th Army WAC Band toured many different regions including the Fifth Army area of responsibility, Hollywood, California, and the Rose Bowl Parade in 1951.

The very first military all women band, the Women's Army Band organized at Fort Des Moines in 1942, was led by then Sergeant Mary Belle Nissly. As a result of special legislation, early in 1944 WAC Sergeant Nissly became the first woman in military history to win a warrant officer band leader appointment.


Warrant Officer Nissly left the Army in 1946 but returned to the service as a Captain in the Air Force in 1951 to organize the United States Air Force WAF Band.


The 50 member concert unit performed all over the world playing everything from classics to rock and roll and mambos to marches. Their home base was Norton AFB in California but they were on the road 70% of the time. Unique to the WAF band was the only woman coach horn soloist in the USA - Technical Sgt Martye Awkerman, pictured above in the shadow image.


In the mid 1950's the WAF band played in New York City and as an Air Force recruiting sergeant at the time, I had the pleasure of being their escort. When they played at the dress rehersal of the Garry Moore Show the program's orchestra "vacated the orchestra pit" and invited the WAF Band to take the stage and play for the show. Circumventing the musician's union rules this way was a grand tribute to the WAF band.

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[Soaring Feather]

Evening Connie, Thank you for
~Tribute to Our Troops.~

[Soaring Feather]

Yupper, was a long time ago here. ;)

[The Mayor]

February 20, 2007

Choices

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READ: Ruth 1:11-18

Wherever you go, I will go; and . . . your people shall be my people, and your God, my God. —Ruth 1:16

A friend once told me: "Joe, I’ve come to realize that my life is not made by the dreams that I dream but by the choices that I make."

Count on it: You will have plenty of choices in life. And usually they boil down to a choice between "What do I want?" and "What’s best for others?"

After their husbands died, Ruth and Orpah were faced with a strategic choice (Ruth 1:11). Their mother-in-law Naomi told them they should go home. She didn’t want them to feel any obligation to her, in spite of the fact that her loss was far greater. She had lost her own husband and both of her sons.

Orpah and Ruth could either go home and start a new life, or stay with Naomi to help her in a time of great need. They knew very well that the latter choice would probably mean living in a foreign land as widows for the rest of their lives, since few Jewish men would want to marry a foreign woman.

Ruth chose to serve the needs of Naomi rather than to serve herself. Orpah chose to leave Naomi for what she thought would be a better life. Ruth went on to play a significant role in Jewish history and became an ancestor of Jesus (Matt. 1:5).

Make the best choice. Choose to serve others.

When we’re involved in serving
And meeting others’ needs,
We’re imitating Jesus
In thoughts and words and deeds.  —Fitzhugh

Serve God by serving others.

Bible in One Year:   Leviticus 26-27; Mark 2

[acad1228]

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[Soaring Feather]

Good evening Mayor, thank you for today's message of hope.

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks Acad, for Da Daily Dose of Da Blues. ;)

[AZamericonnie]

This really a cool thread Feather. Thank you! Did I read it right that you got to be their escort? *Hugs*

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Families, for your service to our country.

Thanks, Sonora, for the perfect woohoo.

John Conlee ~ They Also Serve

[SevenofNine]

If my Blues knowledge is correct Acad Rollin and tumblin was first song Muddy Waters ever record

[AZamericonnie]

LOL....good evening Izzy. I believe you got 2nd! WooHoo!

[AZamericonnie]

Click your heels three times & repeat after me..."There's no place like home....":)

[Izzy Dunne]

Rats. I was trying for twenty-seventh.

[Soaring Feather]

Thanks Connie, it was not me that's why I linked it there hoping people would not get confused. My thought any way. I am hoping for people to click the link and read who I is. LOL

[AZamericonnie]

Ha! Beter luck next time Izzy!:)

[Tanniker Smith]

Click your heels three times & repeat after me..."There's no place like home....":)

"There's no place like home...."
"There's no place like home...."
"There's no place like home...."

It worked. I'm home! In my own basement! And you're all here!
Oh, Connie, there really is no place like home!!

TS

[AZamericonnie]

Well I clicked lookin' for ya! Leave it to me to be the first one "cornfused"!:)

[stephenjohnbanker]

Good evening, Kathy. Bump to the gals!

[Kathy in Alaska]

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