In September the US Army in Camp Buehring, Kuwait, provided an opportunity for Soldiers to encourage their spiritual strength in a Spiritual Fitness Breakfast.
Soldiers deployed to Camp Buehring, Kuwait, attended a Spiritual Fitness Breakfast Saturday at the main dining facility to strengthen Read more
As has become tradition, President Obama declared this past weekend leading up to September 11th “days of prayer and remembrance:”
I ask that the people of the United States honor and remember the victims of September 11, 2001, and their loved ones through prayer, contemplation, memorial services, the visiting of memorials, the ringing of bells, evening candlelight remembrance vigils, and other appropriate ceremonies and activities.
He specifically noted military service following the Read more
The Air Force Times recently admitted to letting the “news” slip by without reporting it. After checking the White House “We the People” petition website (to view the White House beer recipe), an astute reporter noticed that the White House had responded to a petition to pull Rush Limbaugh off AFN, the worldwide DoD radio and TV broadcast system. That is, the White House responded in July. From the AFTimes:
[The petition] threshold for a reply was 25,000 people — a level reached in April — but the reply wasn’t posted until July and got scant Read more
US Marines at Camp Leatherneck recently hosted a “Faith in Combat Leadership” breakfast to “get back in touch with their religion.”
“The purpose of (the breakfast) was to Read more
Two recent articles provided insight into the social treatment of Christianity in the United States. The first, an editorial in the Colorado Springs Gazette — home of the US Air Force Academy — was aptly titled “Don’t Look, there’s a Christian chapel:”
We often hear from militant atheists, who make up a small fraction of nonbelievers, about a perceived theocratic stronghold in the United States. Christians will take over government, they tell us, and must be stopped if we are to remain free from compulsory religion.
There is an appropriate acknowledgement that not all atheists are represented by the vocal — and vitriolic — minority. There’s also a description that’s right up Michael Weinstein’s conspiracy theory alley: Read more
One of the Christian Post blogs recently included a few pictures of prayer in the US military:
Many similarly-themed photos are available in the Resources page here.
Senator Jim Inhofe of the Senate Armed Services Committee “respectfully requested” that Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta explain why members of the US military were authorized to wear their uniforms in a homosexual “pride” parade in San Diego.
In a letter to Panetta, Sen. Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma said department rules bar service members from participating in political activities while in uniform and pressed Panetta on why a waiver was granted, who requested it and why it was considered over others.
The Congressmen also noted that other military members have been punished for doing what the DoD authorized in this instance: Read more
Or so he says:
According to his public statements, US Army Captain Miles Cone was in “violation of orders from a superior officer” during the benediction at his June 8 graduation from Read more