{"id":210,"date":"2008-07-17T21:14:49","date_gmt":"2008-07-18T01:14:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=210"},"modified":"2009-09-02T12:35:56","modified_gmt":"2009-09-02T16:35:56","slug":"leaders-fear-retribution-for-speaking-freely-about-faith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2008\/07\/17\/leaders-fear-retribution-for-speaking-freely-about-faith\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Leaders Hesitate to Speak of Faith"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 25th Infantry Division Chaplain, Lt Col Tom Wheatley, senior military leaders are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.onenewsnow.com\/Security\/Default.aspx?id=180742\">concerned<\/a> that speaking freely about their faith&#8211;which they are explicitly permitted to do&#8211;could still negatively impact their careers.\u00a0 For the Chaplain in particular, this is important because the &#8220;spiritual well-being&#8221; of their troops is one of several concerns leaders have for their subordinates.<\/p>\n<p>Interestingly, the Chaplain is now working for Maj Gen Robert Caslen, now commander of the 25th Infantry Division.\u00a0 The former West Point Commandant was one of several leaders investigated for &#8220;improper endorsement of a non-federal entity&#8221; at the Pentagon (as previously noted <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=116\">1<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=110\">2<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=108\">3<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=107\">4<\/a>).\u00a0 As noted in a local <a href=\"http:\/\/starbulletin.com\/2008\/05\/22\/news\/story10.html\">paper<\/a>, Caslen was given a &#8220;memorandum of concern&#8221; for his involvement, for which he &#8220;took full responsibility.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to the 25th Infantry Division Chaplain, Lt Col Tom Wheatley, senior military leaders are concerned that speaking freely about their faith&#8211;which they are explicitly permitted to do&#8211;could still negatively impact their careers.\u00a0 For the Chaplain in particular, this is important because the &#8220;spiritual well-being&#8221; of their troops is one of several concerns leaders have for their subordinates. Interestingly, the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,25],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-military-regulations","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210","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=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}