412th Theater Engineer Command Soldiers Build Strong Bonds at Hilton Head, S.C., Resort
The Army Strong Bonds retreat is a no brainer, you are being paid to attend, you are staying at a beautiful resort, and you are receiving world class instruction on communication, intimacy, and conflict management skills, that’s according to Chaplain Col. Steven Dyess the 81st Regional Support Command Chaplain.
More than 70 [...]
“Sending them away with God”: 2nd Brigade Combat Team chaplain joins Haitians in worship
More than one hundred locals, wearing their Sunday best, sit on wooden pews in a dilapidated building, while gaping holes in the stone walls let in the morning light. The people reach their hands toward the red, white and blue tarps that make up the roof of the structure, their eyes [...]
Chaplain Corps crucial to Army
There are 1,650 chaplains in the active-duty Army. Each brigade and battalion on Fort Polk is assigned a chaplain. The role of the chaplain is as crucial as it is unique. According to Chap. (Col.) David Darbyshire, command chaplain, Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk, “chaplains ensure the free exercise [...]
Repeal of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ could affect military chaplains’ religious freedom
Proposed changes allowing homosexuals to serve openly in the military could marginalize military chaplains from religions which consider homosexual acts sinful, a religious liberty group has warned.
Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) Senior Counsel Kevin Theriot said that if the military is forced to promote homosexual behavior there will be “open conflict between [...]
Chaplain (Lt. Col.) John Morris: Citizen-soldiers return with success, honor
When I am asked about my year with the 34th Infantry Division in Iraq, it will be an honor to say that I had the privilege of serving in somewhat austere conditions with a group of proud, hard-working, can-do, never-say-quit Citizen-Soldiers who brought their best skills to Iraq and made mission [...]
Video of Army chaplain with Soldiers in Korea
WWII chaplains who gave lives for others honored
Armed with blankets and earmuffs, more than 50 people braved chilly temperatures to attend the annual Memorial Ceremony of the Four Chaplains on Sunday.
The ceremony, in its 10th year locally, was held at the Ocala-Marion County Veterans Memorial Park and was sponsored by the Kingdom of the Sun Chapter [...]
Chaplain Lt. Col. John Laing
Baptists and many other Protestant groups often “recoil” from sacred art and iconography, because they fear its idolatrous potential and because they tend to focus pragmatically on function over form, says John D. Laing, a chaplain with the U.S. Army’s 72nd Infantry Brigade Combat Team, currently stationed in Iraq, and assistant [...]
