By Admin 6 March 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.
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By Admin 29 January 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.
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Fort Drum – The Mountaineer Onlinehttp://www.drum.army.mil/mountaineer/Article.aspx?ID=6126When people think of a new recruit, they might envision a fresh-faced high school or college graduate ready to conquer the world, not someone with a whole other life of experiences.
Chaplain (Capt.) Steve Love, 277th Aviation Support Battalion, walked a long road of fitness, mentoring and coaching before he swapped his football jersey and pastor’s suit for an Army uniform at age 45.
Love was an all-American boy growing up in Illinois. He attended Southwest Baptist University, where he played football and met his wife, Connie. After graduating, he was offered a full-time coaching position at the college.
By Admin 18 January 2012. Filed in Ethics, News & Commentary.
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Instead, last week, Jackson became the latest soldier to be convicted of sexually exploiting a child. Over a seven-month period Jackson, 46, a married father of two, used the Internet to send hundreds of obscenity-laced texts and about seven hours of graphic video of himself to what prosecutors said he believed to be a 14-year-old girl. In reality, it was a St. Charles County Sheriff’s detective.
A Pentagon spokesman said problems with child pornography and child sexual exploitation were not widespread in the ranks. Still, the military has taken steps to address the issue, including offering training and blocking access from government computers to some sites.
By Admin 5 January 2012. Filed in History.
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By Admin 5 January 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.
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Army officials briefed the parents of Danny Chen for several hours on Wednesday at Fort Hamilton in Brooklyn about the death of their 19-year-old son, said Frank Gee, an Army veteran and vice commander of the American Legion’s New York branch who also attended.
“Basically they informed the family of what … happened,” said Gee, 72, who was called into the case to help translate for the Chen family. “… There is something new, but we are not authorized to divulge anything. It’s very sensitive material because the prosecution is going on, the case is going on, and they don’t want to jeopardize it.”
Chen was found dead at a guard post on Oct. 3 at the remote Combat Outpost Palace in the Panjwa’i district of Kandahar province in southern Afghanistan. The Army announced in late December that it had charged eight of his fellow soldiers in his death.
By Admin 22 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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Frommer, 30, is a cantor and a military chaplain. In fact, he’s been told that he’s the first cantor to serve as a chaplain in any of the U.S. armed services.
“In early spring, New York will send the 27th Infantry Brigade combat team to Kuwait for one year,” Frommer said. “The speculation is that from there we may be sent to Iraq or Afghanistan, as needed, to train soldiers from those countries. But it’s impossible to know for sure at this point.”
By Admin 12 December 2011. Filed in History.
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One of Abraham Lincoln’s private secretaries told Fischel that there was little chance of a meeting. But the rabbi was persistent, taking his place among hundreds of people hoping to see the president, some of whom had been waiting for three days. To Fischel’s surprise, Lincoln immediately received him with “marked courtesy.” The rabbi stated the reason for his visit: On behalf of the American Jewish community, including several thousand soldiers fighting for the Union, he hoped the president might reconsider a discriminatory law forbidding his people to serve as chaplains.
It was a controversial proposition, and one that had its roots in the very onset of the war. Five months earlier, Lincoln had called a special session of Congress and requested a $400,000,000 budget to fight the Confederacy, a portion of which provided for the inclusion of chaplains in the Volunteer Army. The ink had barely dried on the proposed draft when Representative Clement Vallandigham, a non-Jew, objected to its wording — that a chaplain be a “regularly ordained clergyman of some Christian denomination.”
By Admin 18 November 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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“I wouldn’t be here if not for the U.S. Army and the Allied forces,” said Gisser, the associate chaplain for Jewish life at Wake Forest University.
On Friday, during a small ceremony at Wake Forest, Gisser became one of 300 chaplains in the Army Reserve, fulfilling a longtime dream.
By Admin 11 November 2011. Filed in Chaplain Assistants, News & Commentary.
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By Admin 10 November 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.
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CNS STORY: Chaplains care for soldiers’ religious, morale needs, says chiefhttp://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/1104385.htm
ARLINGTON, Va. (CNS) — Soldiers “are making life and death decisions” every day in Iraq and Afghanistan, and military chaplains “are out there in the field with them day in and day out,” said the Catholic priest who is the new Army chief of chaplains.
“We are taking care of people who are most in need at a time they’re far away. We’ve had some soldiers deployed four and five times,” said Father Donald Rutherford, a major general and chief of chaplains since July 22.
“They are fighting for our freedom” and freedom “for other people to care for themselves,” Father Rutherford said in an interview with Catholic News Service in his office at the Pentagon.
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