{"id":11182,"date":"2011-05-23T02:00:44","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T07:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=11182"},"modified":"2011-05-23T00:07:24","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T05:07:24","slug":"comprehensive-soldier-fitness-from-general-marshall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/05\/23\/comprehensive-soldier-fitness-from-general-marshall\/","title":{"rendered":"Comprehensive Soldier Fitness, from General Marshall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Maj) Bill Scritchfield, currently serving in Afghanistan, has an interesting perspective on the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, reaching <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/70142\/tf-falcon-soldier-ushers-fellow-soldiers-spiritual-fitness\">all the way back to General Marshall<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Scritchfield&#8230;believes Gen. George Marshall explained the significance of Soldier spirituality best, &#8220;The Soldier&#8217;s heart, the Soldier&#8217;s spirit, the Soldier&#8217;s soul are everything. Unless the Soldier&#8217;s soul sustains him, he cannot be relied on and will fail himself and his country in the end.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The context of the article is US Army SPC Turquoise Dawson, who volunteers as an usher at Bagram&#8217;s chapel services.\u00a0 Her conscious decision to usher with a happy heart<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>illustrate[s] some of the behaviors and strategies that help one adapt and cope with challenges &#8211; behaviors and strategies Army officials hope to pass on to other soldiers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Critics continue to imply an impending lawsuit over some <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/19\/fundamentalist-agnostic-wrote-armys-spiritual-fitness-test\/\">portions of the Army&#8217;s\u00a0CSF program<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (Maj) Bill Scritchfield, currently serving in Afghanistan, has an interesting perspective on the Comprehensive Soldier Fitness program, reaching all the way back to General Marshall: Scritchfield&#8230;believes Gen. George Marshall explained the significance of Soldier spirituality best, &#8220;The Soldier&#8217;s heart, the Soldier&#8217;s spirit, the Soldier&#8217;s soul are everything. Unless the Soldier&#8217;s soul sustains him, he cannot be relied on and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[58,88,1763,38,5284,166,1764,2,1267,1765],"class_list":["post-11182","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-bagram","tag-chapel","tag-chaplain","tag-comprehensive-soldier-fitness","tag-george-marshall","tag-military","tag-spiritual-fitness","tag-turquoise-dawson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182","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=11182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11182\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}