iFORCECOM: Your Window To The FORCECOM World

Another Official Coast Guard Blog has hit the interent.  This one “iFORCECOM,” is the website of the United States Coast Guard Forces Readiness Command, which is part of the Modernization Effort, says the new Blog.

The Force Readiness Command (FORCECOM) will become the Coast Guard’s first command solely responsible for preparing forces to perform missions and execute them properly.

FORCECOM will be charged with the current and future readiness of the Coast Guard’s workforce — Active Duty, Reserve, Auxiliary, Civilian and Contractor — to ensure they will be ready when called to execute their missions.

Today in Civil Rights History: Coretta Scott King

January 30 2006

Coretta Scott King dies of a stroke at age 78.

The founding president of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change in Atlanta , Georgia, Coretta Scott King continued her commitment to the civil rights struggle following the 1968 assassination of her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.

Born on 27 April 1927 in Heiberger, Alabama, Coretta Scott spent her childhood on a farm owned by her parents, Obadiah “Obie” Scott and Bernice McMurray. After graduating from Lincoln High School, Coretta Scott won a scholarship to Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio, where she received her B.A. in music and elementary education in 1949. While at Antioch, Scott joined the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and the Race Relations and Civil Liberties Committee.