{"id":77323,"date":"2018-01-23T15:00:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=77323"},"modified":"2018-01-23T15:00:50","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T20:00:50","slug":"master-sgt-catherine-g-murray-first-female-enlisted-marine-passes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77323","title":{"rendered":"Master Sgt. Catherine G. Murray, first female enlisted Marine passes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?attachment_id=77324\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-77324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Master-Sgt.-Catherine-G.-Murray-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-77324\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Master-Sgt.-Catherine-G.-Murray-294x300.jpg 294w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Master-Sgt.-Catherine-G.-Murray-327x333.jpg 327w, https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Master-Sgt.-Catherine-G.-Murray.jpg 372w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 294px) 100vw, 294px\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Chief Tango sends us <a href=\"http:\/\/potomaclocal.com\/2018\/01\/22\/first-enlisted-female-marine-dies-had-ties-to-quantico\/\">the sad news<\/a> that Marine Master Sergeant Catherine G. Murray, the first enlisted female Marine to retire from active duty, has passed at the age of 100 years. <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Murray enlisted in the Marine Corps reserve in 1943 and was assigned to motor transport duties until 1946 where she drove both sedans and five-ton trucks for the Marine Corps during her service in World War II.<\/p>\n<p>When the armed forces demobilized their \u2018Force of Women\u2019 at the end of the war, Murray was retained on active duty with the Marine Corps.  In 1948, she was authorized to integrate into the regular service.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>She retired from active duty in 1962. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/video\/516868\/once-marine-always-marine-msgt-catherine-g-murray\">DVIDS did this interview<\/a> with her last year on the occasion of her 100th birthday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chief Tango sends us the sad news that Marine Master Sergeant Catherine G. Murray, the first &hellip; <a title=\"Master Sgt. Catherine G. Murray, first female enlisted Marine passes\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=77323\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Master Sgt. Catherine G. Murray, first female enlisted Marine passes<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":77324,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[184],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/77324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}