“It was 2003 and we were in the middle of a war…I could see the stress, pain and hopelessness weigh on the people around me. Of course, I felt I had to try and do something.

“So during my first worship service, I met with the civil engineer guys and dug a big hole, placed a fuel bladder in it and filled the hole up with water,” the chaplain continued. “Then I held a baptism. A lot of people rededicated their life to God that day.”

– Chaplain (Maj) Matthew Boyd

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