U.S. Navy Cmdr. Dennis Rocheford
By Cpl. Eric C. Schwartz 2nd Marine Division
CAMP AL QA’IM, Iraq, July 24, 2007 — Lord,” said Lance Cpl. Dennis Rocheford, a Marine with Alpha Company, 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, “I will not waste my life.” The bus hummed along the flight line transporting Rocheford, a Vietnam veteran fresh from the war-torn jungles of the Quang Tri Province, to Okinawa, Japan, en route to the United States.
Forty years later, after joining the Marines in 1966, now U.S. Navy Cmdr. Dennis Rocheford, a Catholic chaplain with II Marine Expeditionary Force, serves a higher power, giving spiritual guidance to deployed Marines with Regimental Combat Team 2.
[As a young Marine, CDR Rocheford fought in Hue City, Hill 881 and later joined the Navy as a chaplain ...] Read more at http://www.defenselink.mil/home/faceofdefense/fod/2007-07/f20072407a.html
