{"id":5363,"date":"2010-05-17T00:35:35","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T08:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=5363"},"modified":"2010-05-16T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T05:58:08","slug":"air-force-chaplains-will-be-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/air-force-chaplains-will-be-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Air Force Chaplains will be Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An article at the <em>Stars and Stripes<\/em> talks about the impact to Airmen due to the Air Force&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stripes.com\/article.asp?section=104&amp;article=70025\">decision to reduce the number of Chaplains<\/a>\u00a0(previously <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/07\/air-force-reductions-include-chaplains\/\">noted<\/a>).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Cecil Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, said he understands the need for force-shaping, but laments trimming chaplains during wartime.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We\u2019re fully engaged in the desert,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and we\u2019re fully engaged stateside.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Interestingly, the Air Force has a mandated increase of &#8220;mental health positions&#8221; at the same time it is cutting Chaplains.\u00a0 Also, the Army is actually <em>increasing<\/em> its number of Chaplains, and it <em>already<\/em> has a 350-1 Chaplain-to-Soldier ratio, while the Navy expects to increase its number of Chaplains from its current 700-1 ratio (compared to 785-1 in the Air Force).\u00a0 As previously noted, Chaplains in some Air Force units are <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/17\/alabama-guard-shows-need-for-chaplains\">already stretched thin<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An article at the Stars and Stripes talks about the impact to Airmen due to the Air Force&#8217;s decision to reduce the number of Chaplains\u00a0(previously noted). Chaplain (Maj. Gen.) Cecil Richardson, Air Force chief of chaplains, said he understands the need for force-shaping, but laments trimming chaplains during wartime. &#8220;We\u2019re fully engaged in the desert,&#8221; he said, &#8220;and we\u2019re fully [&#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":[134,88,506,5284,2,36],"class_list":["post-5363","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-army","tag-cecil-richardson","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-navy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363","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=5363"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5363\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}