{"id":17740,"date":"2012-05-14T00:30:28","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T03:30:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=17740"},"modified":"2012-05-13T23:37:57","modified_gmt":"2012-05-14T02:37:57","slug":"chaplains-bring-easter-to-us-marines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/05\/14\/chaplains-bring-easter-to-us-marines\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Bring Easter to US Marines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some people take issue with the presence of military chaplains serving within the borders of the US, but the religious ministry team of a Marine Expeditionary Unit showed that soldiers stateside sometimes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/86496\/religious-ministry-team-provides-easter-unit-field\">need their spiritual resources brought to them<\/a>, as well.\u00a0 The unit was in field training during Easter this year:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While training is the number one priority, seven religious services were held to allow the service members to practice their faith even <!--more-->though they are away from home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the command\u2019s chaplain, it\u2019s important for me to make myself available to the Marines and sailors even though we are training,\u201d said Navy [Chaplain] Lt. Cmdr. David D. Dinkins&#8230;\u201cEaster is one of the holiest days on the Christian calendar, and I\u2019m glad we were able to celebrate it here.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOur mission is to support the religious needs of the troops,\u201d said Petty Officer 1st Class Edward S. Debaun, religious program specialist&#8230;\u201cSince we are in the field training, we ensured the Marines and sailors were still able to conduct worship.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>US military chaplains serve an important role, and they go the extra mile to ensure the religious freedom of the troops they serve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some people take issue with the presence of military chaplains serving within the borders of the US, but the religious ministry team of a Marine Expeditionary Unit showed that soldiers stateside sometimes need their spiritual resources brought to them, as well.\u00a0 The unit was in field training during Easter this year: While training is the number one priority, seven religious [&#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":[5284,96,82,350,149,2,10,171],"class_list":["post-17740","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-christian","tag-constitution","tag-easter","tag-marines","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740","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=17740"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17740\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17740"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17740"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17740"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}