60-Year Old Military Chapel Gets a Facelift
The McGregor Range Chapel in New Mexico, just north of Fort Bliss in El Paso, Texas, provides religious services to some 16,000 transient troops in training each year: Read more
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Commanding General Installs New “Iron Shepherd”
Gen Stephen Twitty, commanding General of the US Army’s 1st Armored Division, recently participated in a ceremony marking the “passing of the stole” from one Chaplain to another:
The 1st Armored Division sent off Lt. Col. Karen L. Meeker, outgoing 1st Armored Division chaplain and welcomed Lt. Col. Thomas S. Helms III as the new 1st AD chaplain during the Division’s Passing of the Stole ceremony here…
Helms assumed the spiritual leadership and pastoral care for the entire division when Maj. Gen. Stephen M. Twitty, 1st AD and Fort Bliss commanding general, removed the division stole from Meeker and placed it on Helms shoulders.
The 1AD is known as “Old Ironsides,” so its chaplain is the “Iron Shepherd.”
Chaplain Helms looked to Read more
US Soldiers Improve Spiritual Readiness
A group of Soldiers at Fort Bliss, Texas, was busy with readiness training — but their chaplains were right there with them:
“In the Army we talk about readiness,” said Chaplain (Maj.) Doug Downs, 2/1 AD chaplain. “In all different ways, folks have to be ready. Spiritual readiness is just as important for soldiers who are getting ready to, or who will potentially go to war.”
The chaplains provided a variety of services Read more