Steve
In all fairness, I have not overlooked your point / argument, although everytime
you reword it, your applied use of military doctrine irks me.
Its not apply lethal force at the will of the Government....
The military does not exist to 'war'.
The military exists to serve to protect the best interest of the country whether home or abroad.
Now, be it war, domestic operations, peacekeeping or whatever the government decides.
(See previous post for exact military doctrine wording)
and your job isn't to justify immoral actions, but your job is basically to help soldiers deal with the moral ramifications of taking life.
And we're back to square one. Yes, that is one aspect of my job. And nicely worded.
But you say
BASICALLY... which entails its my major or primary function. This has been
your same point in at least three post now.
So NO, it is not basically my job. The role of the chaplain entails a wide variety of duties (which have been previously posted)
My only concern is your casual use of defining military doctrine, definitions of what a soldier is, or
in this case, saying BASICALLY.....
Lets put it this way.. you're infantry.
So if i say basically you support tanks during FIBUA i'd be wrong...
Yes that is a role of what you do, but you do so much more.
or You kill the enemy.
But you also hold key areas
Do security
Snatch and Grabs
Take prisoners of war and so on....
So yes, your training is to closeforth with and kill the enemy. But you also do
so much more as required.
Thats not the best example, but its the only one i can think of at the moment. So don't shred
my example!!!!! Instead, if you don't like it, come up with a new one PLEASE.
At this point, really, I'm going to have to say
we have to agree to disagree.
I am pretty secure in my knowledge of my trade and my roles that I am to fulfil.
From where I stand with my military experience, years in, regiments served with I can
pretty much firmly stand behind my
opinion. (remember, its all just opinion.)
I'm not trying to change your opinion anymore as much as provide you factual infomration
on chaplaincy in hopes you better understand our roles. I didn't mean for a thread to start
out of this. (Actually I didn't, a mod did and threw my name on it)
Remember, Chaplains are your friends. I don't want to come off as a jerk or impolite and taint anyones opinion
of chaplains based on any of my posts here, which is why i've tried to be concise, factual with the manual and to the point.
But I recognize that we are not going to make any progress on this point and it should be dropped so we can move
onto another one... whatever it may be.
Blessings to all.....
Trinity
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