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To: Pearls Before Swine
Oh I am sure you did, however the 4 upper case letters should have given you a hint that they had to do with women pilots in the Air Force Women Airforce Service Pilots.

I I am not mistaken I think they are called Waves in the navy?

56 posted on 01/03/2016 3:51:41 PM PST by Kaslin (He needed the ignorant to reelect him, and he got them. Now we all have to pay the consequenses)
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To: Kaslin

I’m married to a WASP. She doesn’t fly. I think that acronym is all caps, LOL.


58 posted on 01/03/2016 3:55:23 PM PST by Pearls Before Swine
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To: Kaslin

You sound like you know the difference, but It is important for us to explicitly note that WACs and WAVES were different from the WASPS.

WACs and WAVES were branches of the military, where WASPS were not. Thw WASP program was created to hire civilian women and train them to fly military planes from the manufacturer factories to various points around the continental USA where they were handed over to military personnel for use.

They were not military, and never were military.


61 posted on 01/03/2016 4:09:15 PM PST by rlmorel ("Irrational violence against muslims" is a myth, but "Irrational violence against non-muslims" isn't)
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