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jwirr

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7. It makes sense in that the recruits have religions of their
Sun Oct 11, 2015, 11:38 AM
Oct 2015

own they want to follow. But should only apply to the recruit that WANTS to have a chaplain. When my s-i-l went to boot camp he was forced to go to a church service when he did not even know what church he wanted to go to.

Secondly during the rw W era the evangelicals did exactly what they are trying to do to all government co-opt it as their own. Where as the chaplains used to be there for the soldiers and were of different religions - Christian or Jewish mostly - the rw has acted like they own the recruits and demand they go to a Christian service only. This is totally wrong. A recruit should be able to say NO and there should be more religions represented in the chaplaincy program.

But I do not see much being done about this.

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