{"id":37428,"date":"2016-11-17T00:28:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-17T03:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=37428"},"modified":"2016-11-17T00:09:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-17T03:09:58","slug":"us-marine-trades-m-16-for-helping-hand-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/17\/us-marine-trades-m-16-for-helping-hand-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Trades M-16 for Helping Hand in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-37429\" src=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/calebdrown.jpg\" alt=\"calebdrown\" width=\"450\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/calebdrown.jpg 450w, https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/calebdrown-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/>Caleb Drown was a sergeant in the US Marine Corps when he deployed to Iraq in 2006, believing he could &#8220;save the world with an M-16.&#8221; Instead, the saw the needs of the people there.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now traded his former military role <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-veteran-lays-down-rifle-to-provide-aid-in-iraq-1.438254#\">for one at Samaritan&#8217;s Purse<\/a>, which is providing humanitarian assistance along with other groups at near Mosul, Iraq.<\/p>\n<p>Giving up his uniform, though, didn&#8217;t mean giving up his <!--more-->military life or his experience. When he worked for US AID:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;he was designated to translate military speak into a civilian dialect for his colleagues.<\/p>\n<p>As a former sergeant, that took some getting used to, he said, since he was often the agency\u2019s liaison with senior military officers and had to resist the urge to salute whenever a colonel walked into a room.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now that he&#8217;s at Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, though, he noted he&#8217;s &#8220;fulfilled,&#8221; in part because<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>he now wears a cross on his chest, rather than an eagle, globe and anchor, keeping the faith through works done in the name of his Christian beliefs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt takes a lot more than an M-16 to save the world,\u201d he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Amen.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: xx-small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.stripes.com\/news\/marine-veteran-lays-down-rifle-to-provide-aid-in-iraq-1.438254#\">Image Credit<\/a>: Caleb Drown, pictured here at the Khazir displacement camp at Hassan Sham, Iraq, on Monday, Nov. 7, 2016, went from serving as a Marine to relief and development work after noticing a gap between the U.S. military and the populations it seeks to protect. Chad Garland\/Stars and Stripes <\/span><\/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-client=\"ca-pub-6450825356098669\" data-ad-slot=\"2728423835\" data-ad-format=\"auto\"><\/ins><script>\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Caleb Drown was a sergeant in the US Marine Corps when he deployed to Iraq in 2006, believing he could &#8220;save the world with an M-16.&#8221; Instead, the saw the needs of the people there. He&#8217;s now traded his former military role for one at Samaritan&#8217;s Purse, which is providing humanitarian assistance along with other groups at near Mosul, Iraq. 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