A lawyer and US Air Force chaplain, Collins has also grown personally close with the President over the years and -- almost as importantly -- his inner circle of advisers.
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U.S District Judge Martha Vazquez imposed the sentence in Albuquerque federal court on Arthur Perrault, 19923, a onetime Air Force chaplain and colonel, U.S. Attorney John Anderson said in a statement.
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You're standing outside the mess hall at Bagram Air Field in Afghanistan, and the Lutheran Air Force chaplain is telling you about his preparations to make sure the dozen or so Jewish service members at the base will have everything they need for the High Holy Days.
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The board's name was changed in 1976 to USAF Chaplain Resource Board, and in January 1989 to USAF Chaplain Service Resource Board, "to reflect the mission of providing resources to all chaplain service professionals: chaplain service support personnel (CSSP), religious education coordinators, laity, and chaplains." It is now known as the USAF Chaplain Service Institute Resource Division. Air Force Chaplain Assistants began training at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania, in 1960, as "Welfare specialists," moving to Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi in 1960 at the same time the specialty name was changed to "Chaplain Service Personnel." In 1992, training moved to Maxwell AFB, where it became part of the "Ira C. Eaker Center for Professional Development," alongside the Air Force Chaplain School and Air Force Chaplain Service Institute.
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Carpenter was promoted to major general and was appointed the first Air Force Chief of Chaplains, serving from 1949 to 1958. The Air Force Chaplain Assistant Specialist Career was established in 1948.
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The Air Force Deputy Chief of Chaplains assists the Chief of Chaplains in directing and maintaining the Chaplain Corps. The position is currently held by Brigadier General Steve Schaick. The Chaplain Assistant Air Force Career Field Manager runs the chaplain-assistant career field, preparing chaplain assistants to support the Air Force Chaplain Corps and advising the Air Force Chief of Chaplains on policy matters regarding chaplain assistants and the Air Force Chaplain Corps. The position is currently held by Chief Master Sergeant Dale McGavran.
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While serving as a visible reminder of the Holy, the Air Force Chaplain Corps provides spiritual care and the opportunity for Air Force members and their families to exercise their constitutional right to freedom of religion.
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United States Air Force Chaplain Service coat of arms. The Catholic Chapel in the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. The Jewish Chapel in the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel. The Protestant Chapel in the Air Force Academy Cadet Chapel.
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A number of ongoing bloggers participate, including the Jewish Agency representative for Greater Washington, D.C., and special blogs are introduced for shorter periods, such as Rabbi Gary Davidson's "A Rabbi's Military Odyssey," reporting during his deployment to Iraq and Afghanistan as an Air Force chaplain.
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Costin served as a squadron-level scientific analyst evaluating air-to-ground precision guided munitions, chief of scientific analysis on a major command headquarters staff, and assistant professor of aerospace studies. He completed a competitive category transfer into the Air Force Chaplain Corps in 1996.
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He then taught at Petersburg and Elgin Catholic high schools until 1970, and obtained his Master of Science in counseling from Creighton University in 1969. Subsequently entering the military as a chaplain, Dendinger served as a base and cadet wing chaplain, member of the chaplain resource board for the United States Air Force Chaplain Institute, plans and programs officer in the Office of the Air Force Chief of Chaplain Service, and then Chief of the Air Force Chaplain Service for over the next thirty-one years. He retired in 2001 as a two-star general, and then served as pastor of St. Stephen the Martyr Church in Omaha until 2004.
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The U.S. Army Chaplain Center and School (USACHCS)US Army Chaplain Center & School (United States Army Chaplaincy official homepage). Retrieved 4 March 2010. is part of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center (AFCC), which also includes the Air Force Chaplain Service Institute (AFCSI) and the U.S. Naval Chaplaincy School and Center (NCSC).
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This religious endorsement must be maintained throughout the chaplain's military service and can be withdrawn at any time for religious or disciplinary reasons by the religious body with which the chaplain is affiliated,Army Chaplain Corps: Requirements webpage. GoArmy.com. Retrieved 2010-09-09.Air Force Chaplain Corps official website. Retrieved 2010-09-09.
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Russell L. Blaisdell (September 4, 1910 – May 1, 2007) was an American minister and United States Air Force Chaplain colonel who organised the so- called "Kiddy Car Airlift," the rescue of 964 orphans and 80 orphanage staff from Seoul in the face of the Chinese advance during the Korean War on December 20, 1950.
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On January 10, 1992, the congregation dedicated the Roy Terry Center for Christian Fellowship in his honor. Chaplain John Rasberry also served as the minister. In July 2000, retired Air Force Chaplain John Secret became minister and he serves in this position today. In 2004, the Terry Center received major damage from the series of hurricanes that hit the area.
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The Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force (HAF/HC) is the senior chaplain in the United States Air Force, the functional leader of the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps, and the senior advisor on religious issues to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. The current Chief of Chaplains is Major General Steven A. Schaick.
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Dondi Enos Costin (born August 21, 1964) is a former major general in the United States Air Force. He has led the United States Air Force Chaplain Corps and served as Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force since August 30, 2015. He retired effective September 1, 2018, having accepted the position of president of Charleston Southern University earlier that year.
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The Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force (CCHAF) is the senior chaplain in the United States Air Force, the leader of the U.S. Air Force Chaplain Corps, and the senior adviser on religious issues to the Secretary and Chief of Staff of the United States Air Force. The CCHAF is responsible for establishing an effective chaplain program that meets the religious needs of all members of the Air Force by leading an Air Force Chaplain Corps of approximately 2,200 chaplains and chaplain assistants from the active and Air Reserve components. As a member of the Armed Forces Chaplains Board, the CCHAF advises the Secretary of Defense and Joint Chiefs of Staff on religious, ethical and quality-of-life concerns. The position of Chief of Chaplains is currently held by Major General Dondi E. Costin.
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Training at the AFCC is provided by three service schools co-located on its campus: the US Army Chaplain Center and School (USACHCS), the US Naval Chaplaincy School and Center (NCSC), and the US Air Force Chaplain Corps College (AFCCC). According to USAF Chaplain Steven Keith, the first Director of the AFCC, "Caring for the warfighter's soul" is the "vision" that "binds the Air Force Chaplain Corps College, the Army Chaplain Center and School, and the Naval Chaplaincy School and Center together." The new facilities were dedicated May 6, 2010, under a plan that rotates the Director of the AFCC among the three military services, each serving in that position for one year at a time. Religious symbols were included in designs for older Chaplain School seals, such as the U.S. Army Chaplain School insignia, approved December 26, 1961, that included the symbols for Christian and Jewish chaplains.
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Marvin Tokayer (born 1936) is an American Rabbi and Author who served as a United States Air Force chaplain in Japan. He was later advised by the Lubavitcher Rebbe to return to Japan where he served for eight years as the only rabbi in the country. Tokayer currently serves as a rabbi in Great Neck, New York. In 1971 Tokayer published a book in Japanese entitled 5,000 Years of Jewish Wisdom: Secrets of The talmud.
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Wenham was born in Sanderstead, Surrey and was educated at Uppingham School, Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Ridley Hall. After his ordination in 1938, he was curate at St Paul's Church, Hadley Wood and taught at St John's College, Highbury. He served as a Royal Air Force chaplain during World War II, followed by vicar of St Nicholas' Church, Durham between 1948–1953, and seventeen years as vice-principal of Tyndale Hall, Bristol.
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Lemmy was born on 24 December 1945 in the Burslem area of Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. When he was three months old, his father, an ex-Royal Air Force chaplain and concert pianist, separated from his mother. He moved with his mother and grandmother to nearby Newcastle-under-Lyme, then to Madeley. When Lemmy was 10, his mother married former rugby player George L. Willis, who already had two older children from a previous marriage, Patricia and Tony, whom Lemmy disliked.
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Herbert Cecil Pugh, GC, MA (2 November 1898 – 5 July 1941), usually called Cecil Pugh, was a Congregational Church minister and is the only clergyman to have received the George Cross. He was a South African who served in the First World War as a South African Army medical orderly and in the Second World War as a Royal Air Force chaplain. Pugh died in 1941 by remaining aboard a sinking troop ship to minister to trapped and wounded military personnel.
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Kass retired to become Rabbi Emeritus in 2014. During his tenure Kass, also served as a New York City Police Department chaplain for over 40 years, and had previously served as a United States Air Force chaplain for two years. At one point during his service as Police Department chaplain he and his family received months of 24-hour security after death threats, and at another he defused a hostage situation by providing the hostage taker with sandwiches from the Carnegie Deli.See Parker & Freeman (2004), pp.
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William Shawn McKnight was born June 26, 1968 and grew up in a large Catholic family. McKnight’s father, also named William McKnight, was killed in a boating accident along with his grandfather and uncle. William Shawn McKnight was 18 months old at the time of the accident. His mother, Mary, married Gary Schaeffer and they had 7 children, one girl and six boys. Four of McKnight’s brothers served in the U.S. military, and he was an Air Force chaplain during the summer of his deacon year.
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Potter initially inquired about serving as a military chaplain in 1972. She sent a letter to the Chief of Chaplains of the United States Air Force at the time, Roy M. Terry. The response stated that one of the qualifications for a chaplain in the air force was that they had to be male. Several weeks later, she received a letter stating that the Chief of Chaplains had dropped the gender requirement, and that if her church gave her an endorsement, it would be possible for her to become an air force chaplain.
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A January 5, 1991, letter to the Abilene Reporter-News from Lieutenant Colonel Garland Robertson, a Southern Baptist U.S. Air Force chaplain who had served as a reconnaissance pilot during the Vietnam War, questioned the use of U.S. military force against Iraq. He wrote that "The need to use military force in this circumstance ... is an open issue." When reprimanded, he wrote a lengthy rebuttal that he shared with the press. Air Force officials noted that he identified himself by rank to the newspaper, when he could have written as a private citizen.
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The first AFCC director Air Force Chaplain Col. Steven Keith, said the directors of the individual schools that will share the AFCC campus worked to bring together elements with special meaning that could be shared. For example, the center's hallways have stained glass from a closed Army chapel in New Jersey and a closed Air Force chapel in Germany. To set the tone for the center, a famous image of George Washington, kneeling in prayer with his chaplain and soldiers at Valley Forge was chosen for the front lobby.
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The Conversion of Chaplain Cohen was Tarr's first novel, inspired by his experience as a rabbi and military chaplain. Following his ordination as a Reform rabbi in 1955, Tarr served as an Air Force chaplain, a pulpit rabbi in a synagogue in Buffalo, New York, and (beginning in 1960) a rabbi in a synagogue in Westbury, New York. In 1963 he decided to leave the pulpit to pursue a career as a novelist full-time, believing that he could be more effective in terms of reaching others that way, stating that "religion is basically out of touch with people".
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P. (Paul) Irving Bloom joined as rabbi in 1973. He had previously been a U.S. Air Force chaplain, then rabbi of Congregation Sha'arai Shomayim in Mobile, Alabama from 1960 to 1973. Bloom introduced a number of innovations to the synagogue, including joint programs with other Dayton synagogues, a new curriculum for the religious school and Jewish studies classes for adults, and enhanced Friday programs and lay-led services in the summer. Bloom strongly believed that Temple Israel should relocate to a more central location, as the Jewish community of Dayton had by then spread throughout Miami Valley.
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After returning from overseas in 2003, Parco resumed his teaching post at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs where he began forwarding evidence of systemic evangelical proselytizing to the institution’s chain of command. In 2005, following the ousting of Air Force chaplain Melinda Morton, the Air Force investigated the nationally publicized religious intolerance crisis, and released a report identifying a series of problems that led to the issuance of revised religious guidelines. He later co-authored a paper with Barry Fagin in the Humanist Parco, J.E. and Fagin, B.F. (2007). The one true religion in the military.
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Rahbar was raised as Muslim but converted to Christianity as a professor at Ankara University. He records in his memoir that he was baptised as a Christian by a Protestant United States Air Force Chaplain, Meredith Smith, in Ankara, on 6 July 1959. Rahbar noted that his conversion was not a result of the 1958 Colloquium, but was more closely related to the memories of Partition of India and the then environment in Turkey. He stated that the "categorical mercy" of the New Testament and the "Christian world seemed to...offer a spiritual home" from his growing pessimism.
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Official seal of the Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center The Armed Forces Chaplaincy Center (AFCC) is the center for training of United States military chaplains, located at Fort Jackson, Columbia, South Carolina. Co-located on the AFCC campus are: the United States Army Chaplain Center and School, the United States Naval Chaplaincy School and Center, and the United States Air Force Chaplain Corps College. The Center includes the "Joint Center of Excellence for Religious Training and Education." Ground-breaking for the AFCC took place May 6, 2008, and the official dedication of the campus occurred on May 6, 2010.
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He was ordained by Bishop John J. Wright at St. Paul Cathedral on May 18, 1950. He was appointed an associate pastor at St. Patrick Parish, Whitinsville’s Our Lady of the Rosary Clinton and St. Joseph Parish, Leicester, before becoming a U.S. Air Force Chaplain in 1954. In military service he followed his older brothers James, Leonard, Joseph and Edmund who served in WWII. His younger brother Billy served in the marines during the Korean war. Upon his return from the service in 1957, Father McNamara was appointed an associate pastor at St. Pius X Parish, Leicester, until 1961 when he was named an assistant director of Catholic Charities.
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Costin has since served as Protestant chaplain for Air Force Basic Military Training, flight line chaplain and then senior flight line chaplain for both special operations and conventional forces in Europe, senior Protestant chaplain, readiness instructor/ evaluator preparing Chaplain Corps personnel for worldwide deployment, Air Staff branch chief, wing chaplain, command chaplain for the air component mission in Southwest Asia, and command chaplain for Pacific Air Forces. An ordained Southern Baptist minister, Costin is endorsed by the Liberty Baptist Fellowship to serve as an Air Force Chaplain. He was double promoted from the rank of colonel to major general to assume the position of Chief of Chaplains in August 2015.
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Seering John Matthews OBELondon Gazette (1) was the fifth Bishop of Carpentaria.Recruiting drive to UK in 1961 He was born on 26 March 1900, educated at St John's College, Auckland and Moore Theological College“Who was Who” 1897-2007 London, A & C Black, 1991 and ordained in 1926.Crockford's Clerical Directory1940-41 Oxford, OUP, 1941 After a curacy at Christ Church, SydneyPhoto of Bishop Matthews on church web-site he was Priest in charge at St Mary's Fitzroy, Melbourne then Vicar of St James’, Calcutta. From 1938 to 1942 he was Principal of the Bishop Westcott Boys' School in Namkum then a Royal Air Force Chaplain.
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In 2004 one critic, Dr. George F. Drake, took issue with Hess' portrayal of the Kiddy Car Airlift, claiming that Hess took more credit than deserved for the evacuation of the Korean orphans. Drake gave Air Force Chaplain LTC Russell L. Blaisdell and Staff Sergeant Merle Y. Strang the credit for arranging the transport for the evacuation, with Hess' role being reduced to providing accommodation on the island of Cheju itself. According to this criticism, Blaisdell was reportedly originally credited with the evacuation by the media until Battle Hymn was published. Drake terms Hess's claims as "fraudulent" but acknowledges that the proceeds from Battle Hymn and royalties from the movie were donated to charity to aid Korean orphans.
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Beginning in 2000, he also served as the pastor for administrative affairs of the Diocesan Mission to Hispanics. After the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, Bishop Cooney released Zielinski from the diocese to serve in the Archdiocese for the Military Services as an Air Force chaplain. He served as a chaplain at the Grand Forks Air Force Base in Grand Forks, North Dakota, from 2002 to 2003 and at RAF Mildenhall in Suffolk, England, from 2003 to 2005. He was next assigned to HQ Air Force Recruiting Service at Randolph Air Force Base in Schertz, Texas, followed by Cadet Chaplain at the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colorado, from 2009 to 2012.
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The plaque marking the location of Denver's plane crash in Pacific Grove, California Upon announcement of Denver's death, Colorado governor Roy Romer ordered all state flags to be lowered to half-staff in his honor. Funeral services were held at Faith Presbyterian Church in Aurora, Colorado, on October 17, 1997, officiated by Pastor Les Felker, a retired Air Force chaplain, following which Denver's remains were cremated and his ashes were scattered in the Rocky Mountains. Further tributes were made at the following Grammys and Country Music Association Awards. In 1998, Denver was awarded the Lifetime Achievement Award posthumously by the World Folk Music Association, which also established a new award in his honor.
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In 1991, US Air Force priest Thomas Chleboski pled guilty to five counts of molesting a 13 year old boy in 1989 and received a 20 year prison sentence. He was accused of luring his victim with tours of Andrews Air Force Base. Barry Ryan, who served two years in prison for separate acts of sex abuse he committed in 2003, was removed from the archdiocese in 1995 after allegations surfaced that he committed acts of sex abuse against a minor in 1994. On April 12, 2019, Arthur Perrault, a former Roman Catholic priest who served as a US Air Force chaplain, was found guilty of sexually abusing an altar boy at an Air Force base and a veterans' cemetery in New Mexico in the early 1990s.
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