{"id":31390,"date":"2015-04-23T00:30:39","date_gmt":"2015-04-23T03:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=31390"},"modified":"2016-11-25T00:26:37","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T03:26:37","slug":"chaplain-serves-at-the-bottom-of-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/23\/chaplain-serves-at-the-bottom-of-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain Serves at the Bottom of the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An interesting article highlights Air Force Chaplain (Maj) Pete Drury as he served at McMurdo, Antarctica. Chaplain Drury had an interesting statement on his ability to serve all of the 850 residents of the remote outpost:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cOne of the cool things that an ANG chaplain can provide is that we understand and can accommodate the secular person and the person who has a non-religious spirituality,\u201d Drury said, with a characteristically broad smile. \u201cBecause a non-religious person still has spiritual needs. We have a unique capacity to provide that.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Other stories have covered the chaplains who have <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/04\/us-military-chaplains-they-go-where-you-go-part-1\/\">deployed there previously<\/a>.\u00a0 It was also interesting to <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/04\/air-force-makes-worlds-largest-beer-run\/\">note the &#8220;deliveries&#8221;<\/a> the Air Force made <!--more-->to the South Pole.<\/p>\n<p>As an interesting side note, Chaplain Drury hails from the 180th FW, the same wing as <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/03\/air-force-responds-to-outcry-over-censored-commanders-article\/\">Col Florencio Marquinez<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/159473\/chaplain-ice-toledo-airman-provides-support-one-worlds-most-remote-locations-during-operation-deep-freeze\">Read more<\/a>.<\/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>An interesting article highlights Air Force Chaplain (Maj) Pete Drury as he served at McMurdo, Antarctica. Chaplain Drury had an interesting statement on his ability to serve all of the 850 residents of the remote outpost: \u201cOne of the cool things that an ANG chaplain can provide is that we understand and can accommodate the secular person and the person [&#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":[4920,134,5284,4919,1311,2,5084,10,171],"class_list":["post-31390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-180th-fighter-wing","tag-air-force","tag-chaplain","tag-florencio-marquinez","tag-mcmurdo-air-station","tag-military","tag-pete-drury","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390","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=31390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31390\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}