{"id":273,"date":"2009-01-04T06:39:27","date_gmt":"2009-01-04T10:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=273"},"modified":"2009-11-21T21:33:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-22T05:33:00","slug":"campus-crusades-rapid-deployment-kits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/04\/campus-crusades-rapid-deployment-kits\/","title":{"rendered":"Campus Crusade&#8217;s &#8220;Rapid Deployment Kits&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the Family has expressed support for Campus Crusade for Christ&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryministry.org\/\">Military Ministry<\/a>.\u00a0 The Military Ministry is known for its &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.militaryministry.org\/spiritual-resources\/bibles\/\">Rapid Deployment Kits<\/a>,&#8221; which are a New Testament, <em>Daily Bread<\/em> devotional, and the evangelistic booklet <em>How to Know God Personally<\/em>, packaged in a ziploc bag.\u00a0 One Air Force officer and aircrew is quoted as saying<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I received the Rapid Deployment Kit a few months back and I want to extend my thanks. I carry my New Testament Bible in my flight suit when I fly. I read a Psalm before each flight<!--more-->\u00a0as my prayer for protection for that day&#8217;s sortie. Especially during this Christmas season when I am away from my family, the Lord&#8217;s words bring me comfort and peace. Thank you so much for this wonderful gift.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The desire to send religious materials to troops is an admirable goal, though it may not always be necessary.\u00a0 While one Chaplain reportedly requested 5,000 of the &#8220;RDKs,&#8221; another indicated that they often have far more Bible and other religious books than they know what to do with (and they are often left at-location for follow-on Chaplains).\u00a0 (The RDKs, along with a Chaplain who requested them, are also listed as a complaint in the current <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=250\">lawsuit<\/a> against the Department of Defense.)<\/p>\n<p>Still,\u00a0there is nothing either ethically or legally wrong with sending Chaplains religious support material; it may, in fact, be much appreciated, as indicated by the quote above.\u00a0 It is also true that while &#8220;Bibles&#8221; may automatically come to mind, efforts are in place to provide Chaplains downrange with a variety of religious materials, including, for example, the materials necessary to provide Jewish military members with the religious resources they desire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Focus on the Family has expressed support for Campus Crusade for Christ&#8217;s Military Ministry.\u00a0 The Military Ministry is known for its &#8220;Rapid Deployment Kits,&#8221; which are a New Testament, Daily Bread devotional, and the evangelistic booklet How to Know God Personally, packaged in a ziploc bag.\u00a0 One Air Force officer and aircrew is quoted as saying I received the Rapid [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,30,3],"tags":[69,2,10],"class_list":["post-273","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","category-military-ministry","category-culture","tag-campus-crusade","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273","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=273"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/273\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=273"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=273"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=273"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}