FIRST WOMAN VOLUNTEER
SWORN INTO GUARD

She is Miss Mildred Day, attractive Fulton County Police Department employee, who answered the "manpower shortage" appeal sent out recently by Colonel R. W. Collins, state commander of the Guard.

Mildred, who decided to join "after talking with Colonel Fling last week," will do clerical work for the Guard. She is a native of Atlanta, and has been employed by the Police Department for three years. Before that time she worked at Davison-Paxon Company here.

She will be one of six feminine members who will be recruited for Fourth Battalion headquarters here, and will wear a special uniform similar to that of the Women's Army Corps, except for State Guard buttons, insignia, and shoulder patch. Her rating may be as high as technical sergeant, and other possible ratings for guardswomen are technician third grade and technician fifth grade.

Colonel Fling has received applications from a large number of women who desire to volunteer for Guard service, and he asked the Guardsman to explain that only qualified stenographers are acceptable.

GEORGIA'S FIRST LADY GUARDSMAN - Lieut. Colonel Frank Fling,
commander of the Fourth Battalion of the Georgia State Guard, swears in
Miss Mildred Day as a member of the guard. She is the first to answer the
manpower shortage appeal sent out by the State Guard. (Journal Photo by Mary Blew)