{"id":43206,"date":"2018-05-04T00:45:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T03:45:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/?p=43206"},"modified":"2018-05-04T07:11:17","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:11:17","slug":"airman-uses-career-break-to-become-a-chaplain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/airman-uses-career-break-to-become-a-chaplain\/","title":{"rendered":"Airman Uses Career Break to Become a Chaplain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A US Air Force Airman took a unique opportunity &#8212; offered by the Air Force &#8212; to become a chaplain.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Air Force began offering a limited &#8220;career intermission program,&#8221; with the intent of allowing Airmen to leave the service for one to three years and a guarantee of a return to their previous position. Part of the logic behind the program was that by giving Airmen a &#8220;break&#8221; &#8212; and potentially letting them see the other side of the fence &#8212; they&#8217;d be more willing to stay committed to the service for the long haul.<\/p>\n<p>Then-TSgt Travis Barrino saw a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.af.mil\/News\/Article-Display\/Article\/1497318\/airmans-dream-becomes-reality-through-career-intermission-program\/\">different opportunity<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Barrino&#8230;always felt a calling to be a pastor. As <!--more-->an active-duty chaplain\u2019s assistant, however, he didn\u2019t have the necessary education and experience qualifications for his dream job&#8211;to be a chaplain&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Barrino was one of the first Airmen to apply and be selected to participate in [CIP], and was able to attend seminary as a full-time student.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Now-Lt Barrino &#8212; with an upcoming promotion to Captain &#8212; is a newly minted chaplain, serving in the US Air Force in a manner that matches his goals, passions, and experience and also benefits the armed forces.<\/p>\n<p>Seems like a win-win. All God had to do was create CIP.<\/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>A US Air Force Airman took a unique opportunity &#8212; offered by the Air Force &#8212; to become a chaplain. In 2014, the Air Force began offering a limited &#8220;career intermission program,&#8221; with the intent of allowing Airmen to leave the service for one to three years and a guarantee of a return to their previous position. Part of the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[134,6574,5284,2,10,171,6575],"class_list":["post-43206","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government-and-religion","tag-air-force","tag-career-intermission-program","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-religious-freedom","tag-travis-barrino"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206","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=43206"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43254,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43206\/revisions\/43254"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}