{"id":10751,"date":"2011-04-14T01:45:30","date_gmt":"2011-04-14T06:45:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=10751"},"modified":"2011-04-12T00:46:53","modified_gmt":"2011-04-12T05:46:53","slug":"holy-helos-help-chaplains-fob-hop-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/14\/holy-helos-help-chaplains-fob-hop-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Holy Helos Help Chaplains FOB-Hop in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplains in Afghanistan have <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/03\/24\/us-navy-chaplain-hull-hops-to-protect-religious-freedom\/\">routinely had to &#8220;FOB-hop,&#8221;<\/a> or move from one forward operating base to another, to minister to the needs of servicemembers spread throughout the country.\u00a0 For example, US Army Catholic Chaplain (LtCol) Joseph Hannon travels five days a week, visiting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/68317\/catholic-chaplain-tends-deployed-flock\">24 installations spread over 5,000 square miles<\/a> in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Chaplains in\u00a0another region have &#8220;launched a new version of an old program: Holy Helos.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Navy LtCmdr Stephen M. Coates, a chaplain with <!--more-->RC(SW), said the program began with helicopters carrying chaplains and religious personnel from ship to ship at sea.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nUsing that basic concept, a similar program is being designed here to support ground troops.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The presence of Chaplains on the front line continues to be valued by troops:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cIt gives Marines a chance to get involved spiritually,\u201d said [SGT Steve] Caron&#8230; \u201cThey get to actually practice their religion with a chaplain. They don\u2019t have to do it by themselves all the time.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u201cI think it should continue,\u201d Caron added. \u201cIt keeps Marines\u2019 morale up, keeps them motivated, keeps them thinking about other things than what they\u2019re doing out here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplains in Afghanistan have routinely had to &#8220;FOB-hop,&#8221; or move from one forward operating base to another, to minister to the needs of servicemembers spread throughout the country.\u00a0 For example, US Army Catholic Chaplain (LtCol) Joseph Hannon travels five days a week, visiting 24 installations spread over 5,000 square miles in Afghanistan.\u00a0 Chaplains in\u00a0another region have &#8220;launched a new version [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[58,5284,1684,1682,2,10,171,1683],"class_list":["post-10751","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-chaplain","tag-holy-helos","tag-joseph-hannon","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-stephen-m-coates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10751\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}