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Little Rock AFB Alters Wingman Day after MRFF Complaint

According to the Air Force Times, Little Rock AFB has changed one of its “Wingman Day” seminars after Michael Weinstein’s Military Religious Freedom Foundation complained about Christian content in a chaplain-led marriage course:

Little Rock’s Feb. 7 Winter Wingman Day will offer classes in four “pillars” — mental, social, physical and spiritual — according to a Jan. 23 release from the base. The spiritual pillar originally would have offered sessions from an evangelical Christian video series called “The Art of Marriage.”

Some airmen objected to the video’s inclusion, and felt it favored a particular version of one faith…

There is no doubt that Family Life‘s The Art of Marriage is Christian, though how that translates into “a particular version of one faith” is unclear.  Merely being Christian isn’t sufficient reason to eliminate the chaplain-led course, after all.  At present, there isn’t public evidence the complainants even knew the content of the course.  (In fact, if people took the time to review the course material, they might be surprised.)

Marriage in America could probably use more of that.

Most who supported the move (outside of the MRFF) agreed Read more

Missionary, Military Aviation Goes Digital

Mission Aviation Fellowship recently noted the changeover to an “electronic flight bag” in their ops in the Democratic Republic of Congo:

Each of our pilots has an iPad. Flight documents are generated by our flight scheduler using Wingman, a flight operations planning tool developed by MAF…Additional documents including manuals, airport strip charts, airstrip photos, and other important references are available in electronic form.
 
In the morning before a pilot takes off on his first flight he connects to the wireless network with his iPad, and synchronizes it with the file server. In mere seconds he has all the flight documents he needs for the day…

In a coincidence of timing, the US Air Force published an article on precisely the same thing, albeit at a slightly higher price:  Read more