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What does WAVE stand for?

Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service (US Navy; properly written as WAVES)


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``She was sitting there in that beautiful uniform, and I felt proud, thinking 'We've sure come a long way,''' said Laura Borsten, one of the original WAVES - Women Accepted for Voluntary Emergency Service - who enlisted in the Navy at the outbreak of World War II.

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