Executive Order 9395—Additional Compensation of Enlisted Personnel of the Marine Corps Regularly Detailed as Messmen

By virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States, it is hereby ordered as follows:

1. Enlisted personnel of the Marine Corps, including the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, regularly detailed as messmen in a command shall receive the same compensation in addition to their monthly pay as is now or may hereafter be allowed the enlisted personnel of the Navy under like circumstances: Provided, That the ratio of the number of messmen to the number of personnel subsisted in a mess and the conditions under which enlisted personnel of the, Marine Corps, including the Marine Corps Women's Reserve, may be credited additional compensation for the performance of duty as messmen, shall be in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy for enlisted personnel of the Navy.

2. This order shall supersede the Executive order of September 18, 1906, providing for the detail of enlisted men of the Marine Corps as messmen, and shall be effective as of November 1, 1943.

FRANKLIN D ROOSEVELT

The White House,
November 8, 1943.