{"id":7095,"date":"2010-09-09T00:20:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-09T06:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7095"},"modified":"2010-09-05T11:37:37","modified_gmt":"2010-09-05T17:37:37","slug":"military-chaplains-aid-in-suicide-prevention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/09\/military-chaplains-aid-in-suicide-prevention\/","title":{"rendered":"Military Chaplains Aid in Suicide Prevention"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/24\/military-chaplains-fight-suicide-trend\/\">previously noted<\/a>, Chaplains are an integral part of the Army&#8217;s efforts to combat the trend of Soldier suicides.\u00a0 A recent Army <a href=\"http:\/\/www.army.mil\/-news\/2010\/09\/03\/44706-fort-rucker-chaplains-aid-in-suicide-prevention\/\">press release<\/a> details how Chaplains contribute to that cause:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chaplains provide confidential counseling services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Wagner said. They refer those they counsel to other post resources when necessary. Chaplains also advise commanders during unit suicide prevention training, conducted quarterly.\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>People can feel comfortable approaching chaplains with their challenges, because chaplains are ready and willing to listen, [Chaplain (Capt) Bruce] Wagner said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;(A) chaplain is embedded in the battalion and knows all the Soldiers since we&#8217;re part of the unit,&#8221; Wagner said. &#8220;Chaplains are easily accessible.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As previously noted, Chaplains are an integral part of the Army&#8217;s efforts to combat the trend of Soldier suicides.\u00a0 A recent Army press release details how Chaplains contribute to that cause: Chaplains provide confidential counseling services 24 hours a day, seven days a week, Wagner said. They refer those they counsel to other post resources when necessary. Chaplains also advise [&#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":[88,964,5284,2,917],"class_list":["post-7095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-army","tag-bruce-wagner","tag-chaplain","tag-military","tag-suicide"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095","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=7095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7095\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}