The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1945-02-07
Business AS Usual

Reserve will celebrate its second anniversary
with business as usual No fanfare will mark
the day as $4,000 women quietly carry on the
duties for which they enlisted-the duties that
free combat-trained Marines to fight.
From coast to coast, the women Marines
are at their desks, their teletype machines,
their lathes, in their repair shops, control tow
ers, and hangers, doing the job they were
trained to do, whether it's checking a n.y.
draulc system or a filing system.
And they're taking that job to new places.
too For only two or three weeks ago the
first contingent of women Marines arrived in
Pearl Harbor-the vanguard of over thou
sand to follow.
Among those who stepped off the gangplank
in Hawaii was slim, pretty Corporal Kathlene
M. Martin, the daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs. Will
liam H. Martin of Seattle.
Quiet self-contained, Kay typifies in her
small person the spirit of the women Marines
Kay enlisted in the Marine Corps well over
a year ago. She has served competently in
three different assignments in this country.
She now takes her old skills to new duty
overseas, pleased that the Marine Corps has
the confidence in her TO send her there. She
does not think what she is doing is spectacular
or worthy of particular note: she thinks it
&c ~ Of hor iOL,o A,ooo rioor
She believes this will be a long war-and
she wants to go along with the Marine Corps
in seeing it through.
After her boot training, the Marine Corps
was quick to utilize her abilities assigning
her to duty in autobiography at the great
Marine training center of Camp Lejeune. North
Carolina. Transferred few months later to
Marine Corps Headquarters in Washington, D.
c., she learned the exacting work of news
photography and printing combat pictures. 1t
was this training that made her eligible for
her new assignment as camerawoman a d
darkroom technician in the Pacific.
Like Kay, the other women Marines who
are reporting for overseas duty are not new
to their duties They bring with them the as
surance of past success. For whether they've
been behind the wheel of a jeep, the blue
flame of an acetylene torch, or radio trans
hitting key, they've been tried by the Marine
Corps and found true.
In their own words, they're merely car
rying the old job to new place"
Also like Kay are the women Marines who
remain in the states. For the great majority
of them have finished their training and &C
CURED enough experience to 60 about their
duties with the sureness of veterans. Their
lives have an established routine in the camps.
air stations, and bases where they are de-
tailed throughout the country. And, like Kay
they are accepted on par with their brother
Marines whether they're telephone linemen or
Observation-Disclosures stenographers, or aeri-
al photographers.
Wherever they are needed, they are there,
doing the job.
On this anniversary, as on every other
day, that job will command full attention
Beaming pilot to a safe landing, writing
the orders that send a overseas, check
ing the carburetor of fighter planes engine,
operating projection machine in camp
theatre, loading machine gun belt, safely
tucking the life of a Marine pilot into the
folds of parachute-these are no easy chores.
They require Marine skill, Marine alertness.
They require constant attention.
And that's why the women Marines are OBJ
serving their second anniversary with bust
ness as usual Like Kay, they think it'll be
q long war. Like her, they want to shorten
1t if they possibly can