The Center's mission is threefold: as well as giving basic training to all WAC recruits, it retains from the ranks many women who will go on to specialist schools. Here also developed commissioned and non-commissioned officers. Reveille and the morning roll call are fundamental to all military training. At the WAC Center they are an integral part of the Army's large design, which seeks to utilize women in an ever-widening variety of non-combat jobs, contributing directly to the Nation's defense.