US Military Highly Infiltrated With RW Christian Officers.

[TheMastersNemesis]

I know an ex military officer who is a lawyer and was a JAG officer in Iraq. He was telling me how infiltrated the officer corp of the Army was during the Iraq war. It appears that there are good many ranking officers who are very strongly Christian even now.

I remember a scandal at the Air Force Academy where there has been and probably still is a lot off proselytizing. There had been several investigations of religious harassment. Right now things are quiet but it does not mean the problem was solved.

All I know is that when I was in Vietnam we had chaplains. But religion paid no part in our operations and there were no prayers before operations. It sounds like such a practice might be more common than the public knows.

[milestogo]

1. Well, they can be on the front line when Crazy Man starts a war.

[trc]

2. The officer corps that I dealt with (I was both USAF and USA) were usually very conservative

but I never dealt with preachy. Course this was mid 1980's early 90's so things may have changed quite a bit since then.

[2naSalit]

3. Well, there's Colorado Springs

a large military population and hone of several RW xtian hate spewers and they are severely intertwined there.

[msongs]

4. your institutions will not protect you. esp when infilitrated by terrorist religious cells nt

[progree]

5. a couple websites to check out

Military Religious Freedom Foundation https://www.militaryreligiousfreedom.org
lots of horror stories

Military Association of Atheists and Freethinkers http://militaryatheists.org/

[Hortensis]

6. Oh, my. Very interesting, thanks, Progree.

[logosoco]

7. I have read that fewer people are "getting into" religion these days.

So i guess the people who want to keep indoctrinating people are focusing on the military and schools because they are sort of like a captive audience.
I have always said, if you are entering politics, check your ego at the door. I guess if you are entering education or the military you should check your religion at the door as well.