{"id":6366,"date":"2010-07-27T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6366"},"modified":"2010-07-27T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T12:18:09","slug":"army-integrates-chaplain-candidates-with-rotc-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/27\/army-integrates-chaplain-candidates-with-rotc-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Army Integrates Chaplain Candidates with ROTC Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting and well-received move, the US Army has begun <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/07\/07\/41914-ministry-of-presence-at-warrior-forge-crucial-to-developing-leaders-chaplains\/\">assigning Chaplain-candidates to the US Army&#8217;s Leadership Development and Assessment Course<\/a>, through which ROTC cadets train.\u00a0 The commander of the school, US Army Col. Paul Wood, praised the efforts to integrate the Chaplains-to-be with the officers-to-be:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We know chaplains as those responsible for religious services, pastoral care, and answering the difficult, solitary questions we all sometimes ask.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Army Chaplaincy is&#8230;giving its candidates a place to train while assisting Army ROTC with the leadership development process. Through religious support, counseling and their ministry of presence, they play a crucial role in the making of lieutenants.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>By being alongside cadets for 29 days embedded in each regiment, sleeping in tents and under the stars, navigating the same terrain, and overcoming the same obstacles, these young candidates carry a kind of credibility that other cadre and leaders here can&#8217;t match, Wood said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The unique program seems to have the benefits of engendering a beneficial relationship between both the officer corps and the Chaplaincy within the Army.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting and well-received move, the US Army has begun assigning Chaplain-candidates to the US Army&#8217;s Leadership Development and Assessment Course, through which ROTC cadets train.\u00a0 The commander of the school, US Army Col. Paul Wood, praised the efforts to integrate the Chaplains-to-be with the officers-to-be: &#8220;We know chaplains as those responsible for religious services, pastoral care, and answering [&#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":[88,5284,2,768,767],"class_list":["post-6366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-paul-wood","tag-rotc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366","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=6366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6366\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}