Two Week WAC

About the Book

Experience what it was like to be one of the first female soldiers in the US Army. In 1978, the Women’s Army Corps had just been disbanded, and the army—having been a social experiment and the melting pot for every new political requirement—grudgingly accepted women into their ranks. Bea Ann Amark was among them. She set out to drive trucks for the army and joined the 232nd Transportation Company and soon found herself stationed in West Germany in the late 1970s. The Cold War was in fully swing, and the company’s group of truck drivers suddenly became family, both on and off the road. The time Amark spent there shaped the way she lived the rest of her life and gave her an adventure she would never forget. An in-depth and personal look at a woman’s life in the army, Two-Week WAC tells the story of one woman’s army service, an unexpected choice that changed the course of her life.

About the Author

Bea Ann Amark grew up in what she describes as a “flaming liberal” environment in California, so going in the army was the last possible choice anyone would have expected from her. She retired from Army Aviation in 1998 and became a nurse, working in many different areas: ICU, psychiatric, medical/surgical, and maternity. She lives with her husband in Athens, Alabama, overlooking the Tennessee River. This is her first book.