\u201cThe three main functions of the UMT are to nurture the living, care for the wounded and honor the dead\u2026we want to be able to take complete care of the soldier,\u201d said Guzman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Their presence on the mission was immediate, even as they boarded the plane to travel to Africa:<\/p>\n
\u201cOne soldier jokingly mentioned, while we were getting on the plane to come here, \u2018This mission is going to be great, God is coming with us,\u2019 and that is very humbling because you know where you stand, and it\u2019s a great honor but also a great responsibility,\u201d said Weberg.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Chaplains and their assistants have one of the more challenging support roles in the US military.\u00a0 They provide spiritual support for every member of the US military — no matter where they may be.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Most people probably know where Iraq and Afghanistan.\u00a0 A few know less popular countries like Qatar and Bahrain.\u00a0 Fewer have heard of Tajikistan.\u00a0 What about Botswana? U.S. forces traveling to the Republic of Botswana Aug. 1-17 for Southern Accord 2012, are under the spiritual care of Army Chaplain<\/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":[58,3514,3516,5284,3519,52,2,3517,1261,10,171,3515,3518],"class_list":["post-19174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-bahrain","tag-botswana","tag-chaplain","tag-david-huerta","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-paul-weberg","tag-qatar","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tajikistan","tag-vincent-guzman"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174","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=19174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}