Army

BUDDIES FOREVER -- Left to right: SSG Laura Holguin, SP5 Donna Dunlap, and SP5 Anna Hidalgo on the rooftop of the Medford Hotel, Saigon, October 1970.

SP5 Patricia Babcock at work at the U. S. Army Vietnam Finance Office, Long Binh, July 1969.

Left to right: Peggy Walker, Cathy Messer, and Doris Fuller all volunteered for Vietnam; all went. This photo was taken in 1969 just prior to departing for Vietnam.

GI CATHY -- SP5 Cathy Messer all dressed up with no place to go, January 1970.

Left to right: SP5 Sandra Leino, 1SG Mary Manning, SP5 Janice Kluge, SP5 Peggy Walker. Bottom row: SP5 Doris Fuller (left), and SP5 Kathy Kabler. WAC Detachment, Long Binh, 1970.

Cartoon from Stars & Stripes newspaper, 1970.

Opening ceremonies of the newly built WAC Detachment's billets, early 1969 at Long Binh.

Cutting the cake during the new WAC Detachment's opening ceremonies are (left to right) representative of the Vietnam Women's Training Center; SP5s Charlene and Catherine Kahl, known as "The Twins"; and LTC Lorraine Rossi.

SP4 Evelyn Lozano, SP4 Paulette Luxford, and SP5 Marsha Holder help themselves to cake during the new WAC Detachment's opening festivities.

WACs from Long Binh are briefed during a visit to the Vietnam Women's Training Center in Saigon, 1969.

Change of command ceremony October, 1968. 1st SGT Katherine Herney passes the detachment's colors. Looking on are (left) outgoing company commander CPT Joanne Murphy and incoming company commander Nancy Jurgevich.