{"id":2741,"date":"2009-12-23T00:25:26","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T08:25:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=2741"},"modified":"2009-12-22T21:38:42","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T05:38:42","slug":"chaplains-bring-religion-to-the-front-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/23\/chaplains-bring-religion-to-the-front-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Bring Religion to the Front Lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Army article relates <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=42956\">the story of Chaplain (Capt) Carl Subler<\/a>, one of only two Catholic Chaplains in the RC-South portion of Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/14\/chaplain-foley-motivational-speaker\/\">Like Chaplain Foley<\/a>, Subler also carries a kit with him containing the necessary supplies to conduct Catholic Mass, even if its done by headlamp on a helicopter landing pad.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/?script=news\/news_show.php&amp;id=42956\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" title=\"DoD Photo (Staff Sgt Christine Jones)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.christianfighterpilot.com\/images\/233197x.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\">DoD Photo (Staff Sergeant Christine Jones)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>An Airman in the group noted the importance of faith <!--more-->to the soldiers:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;It gives them strength to believe that they can hold on. They are going to be here for so long that it&#8217;s hard to believe, &#8216;Am I going to make it without dying?&#8217; . . . especially after you see death around you. It makes you appreciate more what you have to do to make it home safe to your family,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The US military openly supports the spiritual needs of its servicemembers, even in a region that might sometimes be characterized as hostile to their faiths.\u00a0 &#8216;Only in the American military&#8217;\u00a0could a combat Soldier expect to receive the sacraments of his faith on a pile of rocks by headlamp, lead by a Chaplain helicoptered in for the express purpose of his support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Army article relates the story of Chaplain (Capt) Carl Subler, one of only two Catholic Chaplains in the RC-South portion of Afghanistan. Like Chaplain Foley, Subler also carries a kit with him containing the necessary supplies to conduct Catholic Mass, even if its done by headlamp on a helicopter landing pad. DoD Photo (Staff Sergeant Christine Jones) An Airman [&#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],"tags":[58,88,4,2,17,10],"class_list":["post-2741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-afghanistan","tag-army","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741","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=2741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}