{"id":393,"date":"2009-08-10T01:17:36","date_gmt":"2009-08-10T05:17:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/us-marine-baptized-in-afghanistan\/"},"modified":"2009-08-09T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2009-08-09T20:18:10","slug":"us-marine-baptized-in-afghanistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/10\/us-marine-baptized-in-afghanistan\/","title":{"rendered":"US Marine Baptized in Afghanistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a unique display of the lengths to which the US military will go to ensure the free exercise of its troops, a Marine Lance Corporal was baptized by a Navy Chaplain during combat operations in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The Washington Post <a href=\"http:\/\/voices.washingtonpost.com\/battle-for-helmand\/2009\/07\/marine_finds_solace_in_combat.html?wprss=battle-for-helmand\">filmed and reported<\/a> on the event.<\/p>\n<p>Lance Corporal Zachary Ludwig had to wait for Navy Chaplain (Lt) Terry Roberts to arrive at his outpost.\u00a0 He was baptized in an irrigation ditch fed by the Helmand River<!--more-->\u00a0in Afghanistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;A very close friend told me that when you&#8217;re in the military you have to have the spiritual side because God will give you guidance in combat,&#8221; Ludwig said&#8230;&#8221;I wanted to be closer so He could keep me safe&#8221; said Ludwig, of 3rd Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, which clashes with the Taliban almost daily<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>The baptism &#8220;means more after going through the firefights,&#8221; he said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The Christian baptism by a US military Marine in the majority Muslim country was not an insignificant event.\u00a0 It was also covered by <a href=\"http:\/\/transcripts.cnn.com\/TRANSCRIPTS\/0908\/03\/ec.01.html\">CNN&#8217;s Campbell Brown<\/a> at the beginning of August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a unique display of the lengths to which the US military will go to ensure the free exercise of its troops, a Marine Lance Corporal was baptized by a Navy Chaplain during combat operations in Afghanistan.\u00a0 The Washington Post filmed and reported on the event. Lance Corporal Zachary Ludwig had to wait for Navy Chaplain (Lt) Terry Roberts to [&#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":[4,2,10],"class_list":["post-393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-military","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393","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=393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}