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Meet the XO, LCDR Monica L. Rochester
Lieutenant Commander Rochester enlisted in the Coast Guard in 1989 and served at Motor Lifeboat Station Fort Point, Motor Lifeboat Station Golden Gate, and Group San Francisco, California as a heavy weather boat crewmember, law enforcement boarding team member, and communications watch-stander.
After graduating from Officer Candidate School in Yorktown, Virginia in 1994, she was assigned to Marine Safety Office/Unit Galveston, Texas to serve as Chief, Marine Environmental Response and Chief, Marine Investigations. Highlights of LCDR Rochester’s tour include the major oil spill response to the explosion of the tank ship BERGE BANKER and catastrophic hull failure from the tank barge BUFFALO 292. She co-authored a technical paper for the 1997 International Oil Spill Conference on the employment of advanced, response technologies using hand-held infrared and special response teams.
LCDR Rochester arrived to Marine Safety Office Miami, Florida in 1998 and served as Chief, Marine Environmental Response; Chief, Small Passenger Vessel Inspections; and, Inspector for Port State Control enforcing new International Cruise Ship fire safety regulations. Accomplishments include the use of commercial industrial vessels for Vessel of Opportunity Skimming System deployments, and supervision of two new construction cruise ship projects in Genoa, Italy and Hamburg, Germany.
In 2002, she completed a nine month Merchant Marine Industry Training Program with Atlantic Marine, Inc. and Alabama Shipyard with follow-on assignment to Domestic Vessels, Chief, Small Passenger Vessel and Chief, Port State Control at Marine Safety Office/Sector Mobile, Alabama, implementing new Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) and International Ship and Port Facility Security Code (ISPS) regulations for vessels and facilities. Concurrently, LCDR Rochester completed a three year assignment on the LANTAREA Incident Management Assist Team (IMAT) as Deputy Operations Section Chief for hurricane ISABEL and as Situation Unit Leader for the G-8 Summit, the 2004 Republican National Convention and Super Bowl XXXVII.
Lieutenant Commander Rochester transferred to Washington, DC and served with the Coast Guard Personnel Command, Officer Personnel Management as the Junior Prevention Assignment Officer in 2005. During this time, she deployed to Baton Rouge, Louisiana as Deputy Operations Section Chief during oil spill recovery phase for hurricane KATRINA.
LCDR Rochester grew up in Dallas, Texas and earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Southern Methodist University.
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