{"id":4684,"date":"2010-04-15T00:25:08","date_gmt":"2010-04-15T08:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=4684"},"modified":"2010-04-14T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2010-04-15T03:47:53","slug":"chaplains-changing-of-the-stole-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/15\/chaplains-changing-of-the-stole-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplain&#8217;s &#8220;Changing of the Stole&#8221; in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;change of command&#8221; is a process in which a military unit publicly sees its leadership change from one person to another.\u00a0 The 1st Infantry Division, or &#8220;Big Red One,&#8221; recently saw a &#8220;time honored tradition&#8221; in a similar ceremony when a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/04\/09\/37104-big-red-one-gets-new-division-chaplain\/\">new division Chaplain assumed his duties<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Timothy Mallard, division chaplain for the 1st Inf. Div., donned the stole, which bears the names of the head chaplains for the division since the Balkans.<\/p>\n<p>The changing of the stole ceremony is based on the Old Testament <!--more-->book Second Kings. In the story, the prophet Elijah took up the mantle which fell from the prophet Elisha as he was taken up into heaven by a chariot of fire. This mantle identified him as the new prophetic voice and spiritual leader of Israel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The stole was placed on Chaplain Mallard&#8217;s shoulders by Maj Gen Vincent Brooks, the commander of the 1st Infantry Division.\u00a0 The ceremony took place at Contingency Operating Base (COB) Basra in Iraq.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A &#8220;change of command&#8221; is a process in which a military unit publicly sees its leadership change from one person to another.\u00a0 The 1st Infantry Division, or &#8220;Big Red One,&#8221; recently saw a &#8220;time honored tradition&#8221; in a similar ceremony when a new division Chaplain assumed his duties. Chaplain (Lt. Col.) Timothy Mallard, division chaplain for the 1st Inf. Div., [&#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":[5284,4,52,2,10,374,375],"class_list":["post-4684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-churchandstate","tag-iraq","tag-military","tag-religion","tag-timothy-mallard","tag-vincent-brooks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684","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=4684"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4684\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}