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Proposal could pay for chaplains’ tuition

By 12 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Proposal could pay for chaplains’ tuition | LoudounTimes.com

Proposal could pay for chaplains’ tuition | LoudounTimes.comhttp://www.loudountimes.com/index.php/news/article/proposal_could_pay_for_chaplains_tuition898/RICHMOND – Like other members of the National Guard, chaplains enter war zones and risk death on the battlefield. But at least two characteristics set these men and women apart from other members of their units.

First, instead of guns, chaplains are armed largely with prayers and comforting words for their compatriots.

And second, they don’t receive the tuition assistance that other members of the National Guard enjoy. That’s because, under the constitutional principle of separation of church and state, Virginia won’t pay for chaplains’ religious education.

Moving mountains: Installation chaplains: Safe place for soldiers’ stories

By 7 February 2012. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Moving mountains: Installation chaplains: Safe place for soldiers’ stories - Leesville, LA - Leesville Daily Leader

Moving mountains: Installation chaplains: Safe place for soldiers’ stories – Leesville, LA – Leesville Daily Leaderhttp://www.leesvilledailyleader.com/news/x782337742/Moving-mountains-Installation-chaplains-Safe-place-for-soldiers-storiesSometimes people shy away from the topic of religion. It is a highly personal subject that individuals tend to keep to themselves, but Chap. (Col.) Robert Powers, the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk’s new command chaplain, said he wants soldiers and family members to collectively embrace their faith, whatever it may be. He is willing to help by being accessible and unafraid of change or questions, he said. “I really want to build a sense of community at Fort Polk.”

Chaplain Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford visits Red Bulls at Camp Buehring, Kuwait

By 31 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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DVIDS - News - Chaplain Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford visits Red Bulls at Camp Buehring, Kuwait

DVIDS – News – Chaplain Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford visits Red Bulls at Camp Buehring, Kuwaithttp://www.dvidshub.net/news/81853/chaplain-maj-gen-donald-rutherford-visits-red-bulls-camp-buehring-kuwait#.Tv9PHdTw7NoCAMP BUEHRING, Kuwait – Maj. Gen. Donald Rutherford, chaplain, visited 1st Brigade Combat Team, 34th Infantry Division chaplains and chaplain assistants at Camp Buehring, Kuwait today on Christmas Eve. This is the third year in a row he has visited soldiers in Kuwait on Christmas.

As the chief of chaplains, Maj. Gen. Rutherford oversees all chaplains in the U.S. Army.

Pentagon Says Sodomy/Bestiality Repeal ‘Fails to Rise to Level of News’; But Former Chief Army Prosecutor Says ‘Yes it Does’

By 13 December 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Pentagon Says Sodomy/Bestiality Repeal 'Fails to Rise to Level of News'; But Former Chief Army Prosecutor Says 'Yes it Does' | CNSnews.com

Pentagon Says Sodomy/Bestiality Repeal ‘Fails to Rise to Level of News’; But Former Chief Army Prosecutor Says ‘Yes it Does’ | CNSnews.comhttp://cnsnews.com/news/article/pentagon-says-sodomybestiality-repeal-fails-rise-level-news-former-chief-armyMeanwhile, the former head of the U.S. Army’s Criminal Law Division at the Pentagon says the Defense Department spokesman is wrong — removing the military law against sodomy and bestiality is big news.

Virginia State Senator-elect Richard Black, who was a member of the Joint Committee on Military Justice during the Clinton administration, told CNSNews.com that bestiality doesn’t happen very often – but removing the mention of it in the statute could create big problems.

The fact is, the Senate bill does remove bestiality from the statute.

“It creates some serious legal ambiguity,” Black told CNSNews.com. “Article 134 is the general article which prohibits various miscellaneous categories of misconduct. But the general rule of statutory construction is that if you remove something from the law – you intended to do so. And so there was a purpose in doing it. And the idea that it would automatically resurrect under the general article is unclear.”

Virginia to honor Army chaplain killed in 1918

By 16 October 2011. Filed in History.

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FayObserver.com - Virginia to honor Army chaplain killed in 1918

FayObserver.com – Virginia to honor Army chaplain killed in 1918http://fayobserver.com/articles/2011/10/14/1129431The remains of Thomas McNeil Bulla rest in a small family cemetery in Vander.

On the moss-covered tombstone, which stands roughly 5 feet tall, a weathered engraving identifies Bulla as a second son and a man of God. No mention is made of his military service outside a small American Legion marker on the grave.

Bulla died in France in 1918 after being wounded during what historians have called America’s bloodiest battle of World War I.

Fort Lee’s Memorial Chapel undergoing renovation

By 4 October 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Fort Lee's Memorial Chapel undergoing renovation - Military - Progress-Index

Fort Lee’s Memorial Chapel undergoing renovation – Military – Progress-Indexhttp://progress-index.com/news/military/fort-lee-s-memorial-chapel-undergoing-renovation-1.1212558#axzz1ZsO4AFeKFORT LEE – Fort Lee’s largest chapel has been getting a facelift – new carpeting, new pews and other religious equipment that will bring the Vietnam War-era chapel up to date.

With a grant of more than $167,000 from the U.S. Army Chief of Chaplains, Memorial Chapel, which was constructed in 1971, is getting new pews – as is Heritage Chapel, the post’s World War II-era chapel. Fort Lee garrison leaders were able to obtain funding for carpeting in Memorial Chapel.

Read more: http://progress-index.com/news/military/fort-lee-s-memorial-chapel-undergoing-renovation-1.1212558#ixzz1ZsOVH17J

Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains

By 1 October 2011. Filed in Chaplain Candidates, Deployment, History, News & Commentary.

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Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains | Daily News | NCRegister.com

Profiles in Courage: Military Chaplains | Daily News | NCRegister.comhttp://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/profiles-in-courage/WASHINGTON — The Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA reported a sharp jump this year in the number of seminarians interested in serving as military chaplains. As the 2011-2012 academic year begins, there are 31 military-affiliated seminarians nationwide, up from three just three years ago.

The seminarians are participating in the Chaplain Candidacy Program for one of the branches of the armed forces and must be co-sponsored by a diocesan bishop. Once ordained, the priest must serve three years in a civilian parish and return to his diocese of sponsorship when he retires from active military service.

Conventual Father Kerry Abbott, director for vocations for the archdiocese, remarked, “This is one of the untold stories of the blessings of the Holy Spirit upon the Church and those faithful fervently seeking to respond to the voice of God.”

Read more: http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/profiles-in-courage/#ixzz1ZWVTvhKK

The Great Harvest: Revival in the Confederate Army during the Civil War

By 29 September 2011. Filed in History.

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The Great Harvest: Revival in the Confederate Army during the Civil War | Acton Institute

The Great Harvest: Revival in the Confederate Army during the Civil War | Acton Institutehttp://www.acton.org/pub/religion-liberty/volume-21-number-3/great-harvest-revival-confederate-army-during-civi“Oh for a revival throughout the Confederacy!” exclaimed the editor of the Macon (GA) Daily Telegraph in 1862. The paper was commenting on an outpouring of the Gospel throughout the town, while reporting on food shortages, ordinances, and the latest news from the front lines of the American Civil War. The war’s second season was a reality check for many Southerners as the Federal blockade, inefficiencies of the Confederate government, and devastating casualties of Shiloh and Antietam dimmed the glow of many sunshine secessionists. Austerity fell upon Dixie, and fell hard, and in such times as in other places and in other conflicts, people turned to faith. Indeed revival would soon spread throughout the region; not in the plantations, parlors, or the pews but in the ranks of the Confederate Army. The great revival of 1863 would be a homespun harvest.

Alexandria native is imam chaplain taking care of U.S. soldiers in Europe

By 12 July 2011. Filed in News & Commentary.

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Alexandria native is imam chaplain taking care of U.S. soldiers in Europe | The Town Talk | thetowntalk.com

Alexandria native is imam chaplain taking care of U.S. soldiers in Europe | The Town Talk | thetowntalk.comhttp://www.thetowntalk.com/article/20110703/LIFESTYLE/107030315HEIDELBERG, Germany — Chaplain (Maj.) Khallid Shabazz, one of the only five imam chaplains in the Army, is an Alexandria native who wasn’t always a chaplain, a Muslim or even named Khallid Shabazz.

An imam is a leader of prayer or Muslim congregation. Shabazz is an imam chaplain for the U.S. Army in Europe.

Shabazz used to be known as Michael Barnes, a 23-year-old Jarvis Christian College graduate working at a major department store chain in Baton Rouge making $67 a week before he decided to enlist in the Army.

“At the time, my wife was having our second child,” the former Lutheran said. “I needed to do something with my life. I went down to see a recruiter and joined the Army. I entered field artillery. It was the best thing that ever happened to me.”

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