Being shot by a sniper while ministering to U.S. troops in Iraq may not have been his idea of true mettle but Chaplain Capt. Barron Wester proved that he was more than a spiritual advisor to his soldiers. He was their family and friend.
The 34-year-old patriot was living the American Dream with his wife, Dawn, while being a school teacher in Atlanta, Ga., when he said he felt a strong call to enter the chaplaincy after the 9/11 attack.
“I started looking on the Internet and figured out I had to have a Master of Divinity,” he said. “At that point I stepped out in faith, resigned from my teaching job and we came to Cleveland to go to the Church of God seminary.”
After graduating in 2005, Wester put in his paper work to go on active duty as a full chaplain.
He was stationed in Kansas by the end of the year where a brand new unit, nicknamed Black Lions, was being formed.
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