Secretary of War: We are going to make the Chaplain Corps great again

The changes that SecWar Hegseth is proposing have the potential to be transformative within the culture of the entire Military and bring it back from the secularism that has taken over the ranks. Nevertheless, this will be a difficult task given the fact that so many religious denominations have packed the Chaplain's Corps with individuals who have no Biblical foundation and are only there to draw a paycheck from the government. This goes deeper to the breakdown in our Seminaries which have begun to treat the Holy Bible as literature instead of divine revelation. I caution SecWar Hegseth to develop a stringent set of measures to evaluate the current Chaplaincy and to publish strict standards to the denominations for what a qualified Chaplain candidate looks like, sound like, and most importantly BELIEVES!!!

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David Faulkner, COL, USA(r) December 19, 2025 at 11:05am

The changes that SecWar Hegseth is proposing have the potential to be transformative within the culture of the entire Military and bring it back from the secularism that has taken over the ranks. Nevertheless, this will be a difficult task given the fact that so many religious denominations have packed the Chaplain's Corps with individuals who have no Biblical foundation and are only there to draw a paycheck from the government. This goes deeper to the breakdown in our Seminaries which have begun to treat the Holy Bible as literature instead of divine revelation. I caution SecWar Hegseth to develop a stringent set of measures to evaluate the current Chaplaincy and to publish strict standards to the denominations for what a qualified Chaplain candidate looks like, sound like, and most importantly BELIEVES!!!

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