{"id":7668,"date":"2010-10-20T00:30:57","date_gmt":"2010-10-20T06:30:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=7668"},"modified":"2010-10-17T19:26:22","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T01:26:22","slug":"top-marine-chaplain-visits-lejeune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/20\/top-marine-chaplain-visits-lejeune\/","title":{"rendered":"Top Marine Chaplain Visits Lejeune"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dvidshub.net\/news\/58079\/first-female-chaplain-marine-corps-visits-lejeune\">Marine Corps article<\/a> noted the visit to Camp Lejeune by Chaplain (Rear Admiral) Margaret Kibben, the 18th Chaplain of the Marine Corps and Deputy Chief of Navy Chaplains.<\/p>\n<p>The article at times emphasized the fact Chaplain Kibben is the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/05\/14\/first-top-female-marine-chaplain-announced\/\">first female Chaplain of the Marine Corps<\/a>, and at others de-emphasized her gender.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Although gender was not a deciding factor in the decision to appoint Kibben to her current positions, Giampa said women serving in senior leadership roles sends a strong message to future leaders \u2013 both men and women.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s nothing you can&#8217;t achieve,&#8221; said Giampa. <!--more-->&#8220;It opens up a lot of career paths, not only for women but for (everyone). It broadens everyone&#8217;s thinking. Being the first female chaplain of the Marine Corps is truly a blessing and something unique and diverse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Kibben attributed her success to her predecessors \u2013 both male and female \u2013 and said she was excited to be a part of a team that helped so many people.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Being the first female Chaplain of the Marine Corps, or even the <a href=\"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/10\/05\/fighter-pilot-confirmed-as-marine-corps-commandant\/\">first fighter pilot to lead the Marine Corps<\/a>, is certainly worth noting.\u00a0 Beyond that, Chaplain Kibben appears to be a well-respected leader and Chaplain with great concern for the Chaplains and their assistants who serve the Marines around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Marine Corps article noted the visit to Camp Lejeune by Chaplain (Rear Admiral) Margaret Kibben, the 18th Chaplain of the Marine Corps and Deputy Chief of Navy Chaplains. The article at times emphasized the fact Chaplain Kibben is the first female Chaplain of the Marine Corps, and at others de-emphasized her gender. Although gender was not a deciding factor [&#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":[348,5284,505,149,2],"class_list":["post-7668","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chaplain","tag-camp-lejeune","tag-chaplain","tag-margaret-kibben","tag-marines","tag-military"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668","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=7668"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7668\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}