Some articles on chaplains, chaplain corps, corps, chaplain:
... In the United Kingdom, the Ministry of Defence employs chaplains, but their authority comes from their sending church ... Royal Navy chaplains undertake a 16-week bespoke induction and training course, including a short course at Britannia Royal Naval College, and specialist fleet time at sea alongside a more experienced ... Naval Chaplains called to service with the Royal Marines may undertake a gruelling 5-month long Commando Course, and if successful wear the commandos' Green ...
... The Chaplain Corps of the United States Navy consists of ordained clergy who are commissioned naval officers ... of the Navy," which includes the Navy and the United States Marine Corps ... Additionally, the Chaplain Corps provides chaplains to its sister sea service, the United States Coast Guard ...
... by the Reformed Church in America and recalled to active duty as a Navy chaplain ... His first Chaplain Corps assignment was as a Ship's Chaplain of USS Richmond K ... service with the United States Marine Corps in 1990 ...
... The mission for the chaplains in the Boar's Head Brigade is to help identify problems in the unit, propose solutions, and help commanders maintain a positive command ... Chaplains will also maintain the capacity to present religious opportunities to the Corps, on a voluntary basis, and provide information on religious activities in ... The cadet chaplains also provide morale and motivation for each cadet company and therefore help to form the backbone of the unit ...
... In the United States Navy, commissioned officers are either line officers or staff corps officers ... Those of the Staff Corps are specialists in career fields which are professions unto themselves, such as scientists, physicians, lawyers, civil engineers ... Staff Corps officers wear their specialty insignia on the sleeve of the dress blue uniforms and on their shoulder boards, in place of the star worn by Line officers ...
Famous quotes containing the words corps and/or chaplain:
“Many a woman shudders ... at the terrible eclipse of those intellectual powers which in early life seemed prophetic of usefulness and happiness, hence the army of martyrs among our married and unmarried women who, not having cultivated a taste for science, art or literature, form a corps of nervous patients who make fortunes for agreeable physicians ...”
—Sarah M. Grimke (1792–1873)
“A chaplain is the minister of the Prince of Peace serving the host of the God of War—Mars. As such, he is as incongruous as a musket would be on the altar at Christmas. Why, then, is he there? Because he indirectly subserves the purpose attested by the cannon; because too he lends the sanction of the religion of the meek to that which practically is the abrogation of everything but brute Force.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)