{"id":25484,"date":"2013-09-18T00:23:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T03:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=25484"},"modified":"2016-11-26T00:47:04","modified_gmt":"2016-11-26T03:47:04","slug":"chaplain-promoted-to-ltcmdr-twice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/18\/chaplain-promoted-to-ltcmdr-twice\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Promoted to LtCmdr. Twice."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"width: 207px;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/chapthird.jpg\" width=\"220\" height=\"340\" \/>Chaplain (LtCmdr) William Dorwart has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/113401\/ndw-chaplain-promoted-lt-cmdr-second-time-during-third-navy-stint\">fascinating story<\/a>.\u00a0 He enlisted in the Navy in 1967, then left and obtained a Masters in Dividnity at Notre Dame. He then rejoined the Navy as a Chaplain in 1985 and left again in 1991 to serve a civilian ministry role.<\/p>\n<p>To help meet the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/28\/chaplain-highlights-shortage-of-catholic-priests\/\">shortage of Catholic chaplains<\/a>, he returned to the Navy in 2008, 41 years after he originally enlisted.\u00a0 He started again as a Lieutenant, and was finally promoted, for the second time, back to LtCmdr.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s an odd career path, but even now Chaplain Dorwart hopes to continue to serve in military ministry, if an age waiver is granted.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-like\" data-share=\"true\" data-show-faces=\"true\" data-size=\"small\" data-action=\"like\" data-layout=\"standard\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><strong>ADVERTISEMENT<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script><!-- blogpost --><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display: block;\" data-ad-format=\"auto\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chaplain (LtCmdr) William Dorwart has a fascinating story.\u00a0 He enlisted in the Navy in 1967, then left and obtained a Masters in Dividnity at Notre Dame. He then rejoined the Navy as a Chaplain in 1985 and left again in 1991 to serve a civilian ministry role. To help meet the shortage of Catholic chaplains, he returned to the Navy [&#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":[54,5284,2,36,10,4291],"class_list":["post-25484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-catholic","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-navy","tag-religion","tag-william-dorwart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25484","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=25484"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25484\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}