This Day in Coast Guard History, November 9/10

Based on the Coast Guard Historian’s timeline, https://www.history.uscg.mil/research/chronology/
With inspiration from Mike Kelso

November 9

1970  The installation of the Coast Guard’s Control Data Corporation 3300 Computer System at Headquarters was completed.  A period of system acceptance testing was satisfactorily completed and the computer system was then accepted for use by the Coast Guard.

November 10

Photograph of the Marine Corps War Memorial, which depicts the second U.S. flag-raising atop Mount Suribachi, on Iwo Jima. The memorial is modeled on Joe Rosenthal’s famous Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima.

1775 The official birthday of the U.S. Marine Corps: On this date in 1775 the Second Continental Congress passed a resolution to create a “Corps of Marines.”  Although they were disbanded in 1783 and were not re-established permanently until July 11, 1798, the Marine Corps recognizes November 10, 1775, as its official birthday.  The Marine Corps’ motto is Semper Fidelis (Always Faithful).  On October 21, 1921, Major Edwin McClellan, Officer-in-Charge, Historical Section, Headquarters Marine Corps, sent a memorandum to Major General Commandant John A. Lejeune, suggesting that the original birthday on November 10, 1775, be declared a Marine Corps holiday to be celebrated throughout the Corps.

1913 Lightship No. 82 was lost with all hands during a gale while on station near Buffalo, New York.  Six crewmen were aboard when the lightship went down.  LV-82 was commanded by Hugh M. Williams, Master.

1975 The Great Lakes ore-carrier Edmund Fitzgerald, caught in an unexpected storm on Lake Superior, sank with a loss of all 29 hands.  Coast Guard units helped conduct a search for the ship and survivors although all efforts proved to be futile.

Coast Guard Cutter Reliance patrols the Western Caribbean in support of the Joint Interagency Task Force – South October 2014. The cutter’s crew worked with an aviation detachment from the Coast Guard Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron based in Jacksonville, Fla., to detect and interdict suspected smugglers. (U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Clinton McDonald)

2014 CGC Reliance returned to its homeport at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Kittery, Maine, following a nine-week patrol in the Caribbean Sea supporting the Joint Interagency Task Force-South.  During the deployment, the 75-member crew of Reliance was responsible for conducting counter drug operations in support of U.S. and international law.  Reliance sailed with an aviation detachment from the Coast Guard’s Helicopter Interdiction Tactical Squadron based in Jacksonville, Florida.  The cutter worked directly with federal and international partners at JIATF-S and the Coast Guard Seventh District to combat transnational organized crime networks operating in the Caribbean Basin.  Reliance’s efforts directly contributed to the prevention of 14 metric tons of contraband from reaching American shores.  During the Reliance’s 63-day deployment, the cutter traveled over 6,000 miles, conducted three law enforcement boardings and conducted more than 100 helicopter launch and recovery evolutions while operating throughout the Western Caribbean.

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