{"id":1549,"date":"2009-10-27T00:15:36","date_gmt":"2009-10-27T07:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=1549"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:19:07","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:19:07","slug":"chaplain-ministers-to-returning-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/10\/27\/chaplain-ministers-to-returning-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Ministers to Returning Soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the nature of war spawned the cliche that &#8220;there are no atheists in foxholes,&#8221; another stereotype of religion and war is sometimes overlooked: those that grow to doubt their faith because of the brutal combat that they see&#8211;and participate in.<\/p>\n<p>That questioning spirit is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2009\/09\/14\/27312-he-ministers-to-returning-warriors--chaplain-reaches-out-to-soldiers-who-have-questions-about-faith-upon-return-from-war\/\">the objective of\u00a0Chaplain (Maj) Dale Forrester<\/a>.\u00a0 He is the\u00a0unit Chaplain for a Warrior Transition Battalion, which is composed of those who will likely not return to their unit.\u00a0 Forrester was formerly <!--more-->enlisted in the Navy, an experience which gives him a common frame of reference with the soldiers to whom he ministers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I&#8217;ve had soldiers tell me, &#8216;Chaplain, I can never go to heaven. You have no idea the things I&#8217;ve seen, the things I&#8217;ve done&#8230;And to be able to talk to that soldier, and help him understand God better, they are then able to forgive themselves.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Chaplain came out of retirement to minister at the Transition battalion in response to a call from the Army to return to service.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the nature of war spawned the cliche that &#8220;there are no atheists in foxholes,&#8221; another stereotype of religion and war is sometimes overlooked: those that grow to doubt their faith because of the brutal combat that they see&#8211;and participate in. That questioning spirit is the objective of\u00a0Chaplain (Maj) Dale Forrester.\u00a0 He is the\u00a0unit Chaplain for a Warrior Transition Battalion, [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[4,2,11,10],"class_list":["post-1549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-prayer","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549","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=1549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1549\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}