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Captain Daniel C. Rhodes

1st Bn, 3d Marine Regt
MCBH Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii

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Assignment: 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay

Personal: Rhodes and his wife, Elizabeth Jackson, are both Marine captains, although they have not been stationed together since they got married two and half years ago. After eight years in the Corps, four as an officer, Rhodes is leaving the service in July and plans to focus on his family and finally move in with his wife.

MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII, Kaneohe Bay — Capt. Daniel Rhodes is no ordinary Marine, but then again, he does not come from ordinary people.

When he graduated from high school and went off to college at the University of Illinois at Champaign Urbana, his parents packed their bags and his little sister for Lima, Peru, where they spent the past decade running an orphanage.

Read his full story.