{"id":3481,"date":"2010-02-02T00:25:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-02T08:25:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=3481"},"modified":"2010-02-01T21:24:48","modified_gmt":"2010-02-02T05:24:48","slug":"the-chaplain-and-the-patron-saint-of-paratroopers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/02\/the-chaplain-and-the-patron-saint-of-paratroopers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Chaplain and the Patron Saint of Paratroopers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal blog, a Chaplain with the US Army Airborne notes the unique reception of Chaplains among the troops when they join Soldiers on their missions&#8211;or in this case, on their training jumps:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Chaplain, you&#8217;re jumping with us today? OK, I know I&#8217;m not going to die.&#8221; This is what I heard from a Staff Sergeant when I showed up for work at 0430 for our first jump back into Division. On a Jump Day Paratrooper Chaplain scores some good &#8220;ministry of presence&#8221; points. I always pray for us following the Jump Brief and hand out a few of the Patron Saint of Paratrooper pendants, St. Michael the Arcangel [<em>sic<\/em>]. Coming off the drop zone, a new Trooper remarked to me that it was effective.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As Chaplain Paul Lynn demonstrates, US military Chaplains have an enormously important role (and positive impact) on the mission of the men and women they serve.<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/worthmysalt.blogspot.com\/2010\/01\/first-jump-back-into-division.html\">Worth My Salt<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a personal blog, a Chaplain with the US Army Airborne notes the unique reception of Chaplains among the troops when they join Soldiers on their missions&#8211;or in this case, on their training jumps: &#8220;Chaplain, you&#8217;re jumping with us today? OK, I know I&#8217;m not going to die.&#8221; This is what I heard from a Staff Sergeant when I showed [&#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":[168,88,5284],"class_list":["post-3481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-airborne","tag-army","tag-chaplain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481","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=3481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}