One of the narratives that liberals have been pushing on the news programs is that we need to get out of Iraq because our Army has been "decimated."  Considering that this is the word that is always u

Last January at the State Chaplain conference we discussed the Army tradition of the "dining out" (spouses included) and the "dining in"  (soldiers only) and it sounded like a fun event.  Last night

Low crawling in the sand wearing body armor is not exactly a fertile condition for deep thoughts.  Now that we are spending more time in study and the academic side of chaplaincy, I have had more oppo

Now that we have moved into a classroom environment, the schedule is much more predictable.  In addition, we can now park near the school instead of "down the hill" (at which point we would march as a

This picture was taken just as we were about to put on our berets (I am the third squad leader in that first column).  Now that we are done with the first phase we can wear the berets as a symbolic