{"id":6916,"date":"2010-08-27T00:25:21","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T06:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=6916"},"modified":"2010-08-22T22:07:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-23T04:07:06","slug":"chaplains-engage-locals-in-iraq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/chaplains-engage-locals-in-iraq\/","title":{"rendered":"Chaplains Engage Locals in Iraq"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to some assumptions, Chaplains in the US military do not exist solely to serve the spiritual needs of American servicemembers.\u00a0 In fact, they often play a strategic role in a conflict.\u00a0 From Chaplain (LtCol) Ira Houck:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplains are the religious leaders in the military and religious political leaders in Iraq have respect for the integrity of our office.\u00a0 It&#8217;s because of our position that they will tell us information about their areas of expertise that they wouldn\u2019t share with anyone else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>While the use of Chaplains in these roles has a long history, there is a unique aspect of the cultures currently engaged by the US:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Religion is a big part of Iraqi lifestyle and politics. There is no separation of church and state here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/54947\/chaplains-provide-new-perspective-iraq\">Chaplains provide new perspective on Iraq<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contrary to some assumptions, Chaplains in the US military do not exist solely to serve the spiritual needs of American servicemembers.\u00a0 In fact, they often play a strategic role in a conflict.\u00a0 From Chaplain (LtCol) Ira Houck: Chaplains are the religious leaders in the military and religious political leaders in Iraq have respect for the integrity of our office.\u00a0 It&#8217;s [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[5284,920,52,2],"class_list":["post-6916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-chaplain","tag-ira-houck","tag-iraq","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916","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=6916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6916\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}