{"id":39284,"date":"2016-12-15T00:15:45","date_gmt":"2016-12-15T03:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=39284"},"modified":"2016-12-15T02:08:39","modified_gmt":"2016-12-15T05:08:39","slug":"navy-chaplain-candidates-lead-ship-in-prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2016\/12\/15\/navy-chaplain-candidates-lead-ship-in-prayer\/","title":{"rendered":"Navy Chaplain Candidates Lead Ship in Prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>&#8220;Tattoo, tattoo, lights out in five minutes, standby for the evening prayer\u2026&#8221;<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A short but interesting <a href=\"http:\/\/www.navy.mil\/submit\/display.asp?story_id=98121\">article from the US Navy<\/a> describes how Navy chaplain candidates &#8212; &#8220;chaplain candidate program officers,&#8221; or &#8220;CCPOs&#8221;) &#8212; are visiting aboard the embarked nuclear aircraft carrier USS <em>John C. Stennis<\/em> (CVN 74).<\/p>\n<p>Of note [emphasis added]:\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The CCPOs are observing and assisting the ship&#8217;s chaplains in church services and <strong>leading the crew in evening prayer<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the US Navy still continues the centuries-old shipboard prayer every night over the 1MC, much to the dismay of the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2010\/09\/13\/freedom-groups-object-to-prayers-on-navy-ships\/\">Freedom From Religion Foundation<\/a> and others, including <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/2015\/03\/17\/navy-chaplain-honors-nyc-firefighters-in-nightly-prayer-video\/\">Michael &#8220;Mikey&#8221; Weinstein&#8217;s MRFF<\/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>&#8220;Tattoo, tattoo, lights out in five minutes, standby for the evening prayer\u2026&#8221; A short but interesting article from the US Navy describes how Navy chaplain candidates &#8212; &#8220;chaplain candidate program officers,&#8221; or &#8220;CCPOs&#8221;) &#8212; are visiting aboard the embarked nuclear aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74). Of note [emphasis added]:\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30206,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5284,3194,1307,85,2,5218,7,36,11,17,10,171,40,1863],"class_list":["post-39284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-ffrf","tag-freedom-from-religion-foundation","tag-mikey-weinstein","tag-military","tag-military-religious-freedom-foundation","tag-mrff","tag-navy","tag-prayer","tag-religious-expression","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-tradition","tag-uss-john-stennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284","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=39284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39284\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}