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Title	[Portrait of Dorothy Jane Rechel, 1974]
Date	1974-06
Subject headings	Korean War, 1950-1953 Vietnam War, 1961-1975 United States. Army--Women United States--History--1945-
Era	Post World War II, Korea (1947-1963) Vietnam Era (1964-1974) Post-Vietnam, Panama, Grenada (1975-1989)
Service branch	Army--WAC
Item description	Portrait of Dorothy Jane Rechel in her army dress blue uniform in 1974.
Veteran's name	Rechel, Dorothy Jane
Veteran's biography	Dorothy Rechel (b. 1935) of Cicinnati, Ohio, served in the WAC (Women’s Army Corps) from 1953 to 1976 . Dorothy Rechel was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1935. She graduated from high school in 1952 and went on to work at Atlas National Bank . Rechel enlisted in the WAC in 1953, at the age of eighteen. She completed basic training and leadership school at Fort Lee, New Jersey. In early 1954, she completed medical training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas, while she worked as a mail clerk. In August of 1955, she was sent overseas to Orléans, France, where she performed clerical duties for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Rachel reenlisted in 1956 and completed CBR (Chemical Biological and Radiological) Training at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. She was then assigned to Fort Meade, Maryland, a missile station. In 1960, she was transferred to recruitment duty in Cincinnati. After a year, she was assigned to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey to do administrative work at the Army Signal Center. In 1967, Rechel was transferred to the WAC training center at Fort McClellan, Alabama. She volunteered for duty in Vietnam, and in February of 1968 she was sent to Long Bihn. A year later she was transferred back stateside to Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, where she worked as an instructor at the Adjutant General school. She was sent to Fort Bragg in 1970, then assigned to the Continental Army Command at Fort Monroe, Virginia. In 1974, she was sent to Fort Bliss, Texas, to attend Sergeant Major Academy, and then returned to Fort Monroe where she worked with the US Army Training and Doctrine Command on preparations for the integration of the WAC into the regular army. Rechel retired from the army in 1976 and later moved to Hendersonville, North Carolina.
Type	image
Original format	photographs
Image type	Formal portrait
Original publisher	[Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified]
Contributing institution	Martha Blakeney Hodges Special Collections and University Archives, UNCG University Libraries
Source collection	WV0196 Dorothy Jane Rechel Papers
Rights statement	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Additional rights information	IN COPYRIGHT. This item is subject to copyright. Contact the rights holder noted above for permission to reuse.
Object ID	WV0196.6.001
Digital publisher	The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, University Libraries, PO Box 26170, Greensboro NC 27402-6170, 336.334.5304 -- http://library.uncg.edu/
OCLC number	900812057

[Portrait of Dorothy Jane Rechel, 1974]

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