Katie Clark, family readiness officer for 2nd Battalion, 7th Marines, joined the Twentynine Palms team in April of 2009. She is certainly not ne w to the Marine Corps though. Katie has been married to her Marine for 14 years and has two older brothers who are both Marines. She is also not new to the family readiness concept. Katie volunteered as a key volunteer and a key volunteer coordinator throughout her Marine spouse tenure. While stationed at Camp Pendleton, she was the key volunteer coordinator for an infantry battalion. After surviving her first deployment as key volunteer coordinator, Katie was told by many of her families that it was the best deployment they had been through with regard to the key volunteer network.
Katie is excited to jump headlong into meeting the needs of her families here. “I’m looking forward to seeing more of what’s here, on base and in town,” she said. She is enrolling her children, ages 8, 13 and 16, into the Youth Sports Program and getting involved in all that the Combat Center has to offer. She believes that her own involvement gives her better insight and credibility to encourage her 2/7 families’ participation. |