{"id":6442,"date":"2010-07-21T06:36:20","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:36:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6442"},"modified":"2010-07-21T06:36:20","modified_gmt":"2010-07-21T12:36:20","slug":"unique-contract-chaplain-serves-military-community","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/21\/unique-contract-chaplain-serves-military-community\/","title":{"rendered":"Unique Contract Chaplain Serves Military Community"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Norbertine Father Martin Benzoni is a unique Chaplain serving the US military: he isn&#8217;t <em>in<\/em> the military.\u00a0 He <a href=\"http:\/\/www.the-tidings.com\/2010\/071610\/chaplain.htm\">currently serves in El Segundo<\/a> as the<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>first ever part-time civilian Catholic chaplain or contractor assigned there. The decision to hire contractors was made at the Pentagon level in order to cover the unique needs in the military&#8230;due to a priest shortage the Pentagon decided to sign contracts with the chaplains at all military facilities.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As noted, Benzoni is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aerotechnews.com\/ptmuguhueneme\/commentary\/Chaplain-s-Corner--NBVC-welcomes-our-new-Contract-Catholic-Priest\">not the only contract Chaplain<\/a>.\u00a0 Interestingly, the contract is between the priest&#8217;s religious order and the Air Force.\u00a0 For those not familiar with military contracting, this means that Benzoni is not even a federal employee.\u00a0 He could be moved by his Abbot and replaced with another priest; the contract merely requires the order to fulfill the requirement of having a priest there.\u00a0 In addition, according to the news article he cannot be deployed (though other contractors can be).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Norbertine Father Martin Benzoni is a unique Chaplain serving the US military: he isn&#8217;t in the military.\u00a0 He currently serves in El Segundo as the first ever part-time civilian Catholic chaplain or contractor assigned there. The decision to hire contractors was made at the Pentagon level in order to cover the unique needs in the military&#8230;due to a priest shortage [&#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":[134,54,5284,776,774,2,63,775,10],"class_list":["post-6442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-air-force","tag-catholic","tag-chaplain","tag-contract","tag-martin-benzoni","tag-military","tag-pentagon","tag-priest","tag-religion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442","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=6442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}