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Marines


Hurricane Florence

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Hurricane Florence was a powerful and long-lived Cape Verde hurricane, as well as the wettest tropical cyclone on record in the Carolinas and the ninth-wettest tropical cyclone to affect the contiguous United States. The sixth named storm, third hurricane, and the first major hurricane of the 2018 Atlantic hurricane season, Florence originated from a strong tropical wave that emerged off the west coast of Africa on August 30, 2018. By the evening of September 13, Florence had been downgraded to a Category 1 hurricane, though the storm began to stall as it neared the Carolina coastline. Early the next day on September 14, Florence made landfall just south of Wrightsville Beach, North Carolina, and weakened further as it slowly moved inland. With the threat of a major impact in the Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic United States becoming evident by September 7, the governors of North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia, and Maryland, and the mayor of Washington, D.C. declared a state of emergency. On September 10 and September 11, the states of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia all issued mandatory evacuation orders for some of their coastal communities, as it was expected that emergency management personnel would be unable to reach people in those areas once the storm arrived.

 

 

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4th MARDIV commanding general promotion
Command members of Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North, stand at the position of attention for the promotion of Brig. Gen. Micheal S. Martin to the rank of major general on March 24, 2020 at Marine Corps Support Facility New Orleans. Maj. Gen. Martin, the current commanding general of 4th Marine Division, was in his home in Southwick, Massachusetts, and was promoted over the phone due to the COVID-19 travel restrictions and safety measures. MARFORRES and MARFORNORTH are safely continuing their support efforts to the total force during this time. (U.S. Marine Corps Photo by Lance Cpl. Samwel Tabancay)

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